Fecal egg counts, you can't do just one
Fecal egg counts (FEC) is a great tool but you need to use it right. One single egg count on an individual animal is not very useful but...
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North Brookfield, NY
GBR
Farmer
Jul 23, 2017
Fecal Egg Count & The Pareto Principle
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes....
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May 18, 2017
Meningeal worm prevention
We have a lot of deer on our property as well as a lot of snails so inevitably we see meningeal worm in the sheep. Since we started doing...
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May 15, 2017
KHSI Photo Contest
We received our Katahdin Hairald today and found some very good news inside. I want to congratulate my husband on doing so well in the...
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May 12, 2017
Upper Susquehanna Coalition Tree Planting
Thanks to Lydia (USC Buffer Coordinator) we got over a hundred trees and shrubs for the area around the pond on the farm. Lydia and Emily...
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May 5, 2017
Lambing 2017
We are done with lambing for this year and thought this might be a good time to summarize the results of lambing season (for ourselves or...
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Mar 23, 2017
Building Feeders for Lambing Jugs
Lambing is starting in less than a week and this year we are not going to throw the hay in a corner of the jug. Having a feeder in the...
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Feb 28, 2017
Frost Seeding & Pasture Improvement
Every year we try and do something to improve our pastures seeing that we are a 100% forage based operation. The goal is to use as little...
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Feb 11, 2017
Ewe and ewe lamb pregnancy testing
You can use ultrasound or the BioPRYN blood test to for pregnancy testing in sheep. The benefit of ultrasound is that you can see how...
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Feb 9, 2017
Piglets should be here in May
Sows will come into heat 3 days after their piglets are weaned and then have a heat cycle every 21 days. Most pigs have very regular...
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Jan 10, 2017
Parasite Resistance vs Resilience
Distinguishing between parasite resistance and resilience is very import for a sheep operation that wants to produce quality breeding...
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Jan 5, 2017
Our 2017 lamb crop sires
We are patiently waiting for lambing to start the end of March but wanted to introduce our herd sires and how they earned their place in...
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Dec 24, 2016
The difference a year makes
This is our second year trying to graze through the winter. We are learning a lot and respecting the cold a lot more. Our first year was...
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Nov 15, 2016
Pigs Preparing For Winter
It is that time of year again where it is all about winter that is coming. We are planning to over winter the pigs in the woods this...
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Oct 20, 2016
Selling our first lamb
We sold "Beanie" our first lamb, at 8.5 months old, he was 135 lb. live weight. We dropped him off at Cobbleskill Meat Lab and Joe (that...
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Sep 9, 2016
Lambs Eating Chicory
There is something about sheep enjoying forage that just makes you feel relaxed. This year we are finishing our 100% grass fed lambs in...
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Jul 12, 2016
And then there were cattle
We got five Hereford/Hereford Cross heifers to help us manage our pastures. Now we are doing multi species grazing, the cattle graze the...
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May 26, 2016
Good Fences Make Good Farmers
Right now the plan is to have 75 ewes by the end of the year and more than double that by the end of the next year. We realized that we...
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Apr 17, 2016
Knee Deep In Lambs
We started the day a bit earlier than usual because we needed to get some other work done but the sheep had other plans for us. Before...
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Apr 7, 2016
Lambing Started On Schedule
It felt like we have been waiting forever. Exactly 145 days after we started breeding we have our first lambs. The yearling had twins,...
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