tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post5854869073533787985..comments2023-11-05T01:38:03.385-08:00Comments on New To Farm Life: Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's.....Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358194304460170717noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-76050836893747892902009-11-21T11:36:46.424-08:002009-11-21T11:36:46.424-08:00thanks roundabout! Hope you are enjoying it!thanks roundabout! Hope you are enjoying it!Aimeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358194304460170717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-45705407685011337552009-11-21T10:10:37.888-08:002009-11-21T10:10:37.888-08:00Hi Aimee - I found your blog through Gail V.'s...Hi Aimee - I found your blog through Gail V.'s blog. We, too, are new to farm life. It is always an adventure! We bought a calf hut a few months ago. I wondered if the wind would be an issue... Now I know! I have it with my Finn flock. I better go tie it down! I look forward to reading more of your adventures. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-10009691575864775432009-11-21T08:30:27.094-08:002009-11-21T08:30:27.094-08:00Hi Aimee,
I have two of the same calf huts for lit...Hi Aimee,<br />I have two of the same calf huts for little groups of sheep in rotating pastures. They've been great in our MN winter just to keep the wind and precip off. Not good in summer-- they're hotter inside than out, and the grass grows better in them.<br />My hutches usually move across the field because my horned Shetlands like to bash them. In winter, they skitter across icy fields! Some battering rams ONLY get calf huts, because they can dent but not break them.Gail Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644852656633107525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-24183517219920462842009-11-20T07:45:52.890-08:002009-11-20T07:45:52.890-08:00Hi Olive,
Calf hutches are actually sad. On a com...Hi Olive, <br />Calf hutches are actually sad. On a commercial dairy, the calves are separated from their mothers very early and chained inside these plastic hutches. At large dairies there are rows and rows of them. To tell the truth I have no idea what happens to dairy breed calves, but I don't think they have a very nice life. Or a very long one. I bought a used calf hutch off Craigslist <br />because it is just the right size for a small herd of goats to take shelter in and much cheaper than building something the same size. <br />I live in Washington State, just a few miles from the canadian border and very near the ocean. It's very beautiful here, but also very wet. <br />Kim - good luck! Hope you pulled through all right!<br />Thanks Q!Aimeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358194304460170717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-60472156242894949332009-11-20T05:42:46.397-08:002009-11-20T05:42:46.397-08:00Oh my goodness you had one heck of a wind storm.
S...Oh my goodness you had one heck of a wind storm.<br />Sending calm breezes!<br />SherryQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02473455565144414399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-27977505683210734012009-11-19T21:12:56.919-08:002009-11-19T21:12:56.919-08:00Good lord! I'm glad it didn't come in thr...Good lord! I'm glad it didn't come in through back door. This wind is making me nutso. Enough already!<br />Hope you all are in same place tomorrow AM -- I'm hoping to not be sleeping with a fir tree...Kim C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17211007083911158099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7009967346802541581.post-8652355518959538552009-11-19T19:24:22.324-08:002009-11-19T19:24:22.324-08:00Hi Aimee, Here in Oz we don't have a hutch fo...Hi Aimee, Here in Oz we don't have a hutch for calves This is the first time I've heard of one. Are they used as a feeding station or for weather protection?<br />You must have had a "fun" time retrieving it !! Sorry, but I have to admit I laughed at your story and you probably don't think its funny !!<br />No doubt you will think so when you recall the drama in a few years time.<br />My husband asked me where do you live and I showed him the pictures on the side of your blog...near Mt. Baker, but in which state? Funny that, we live near Mt Barker South AustraliaOlivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389835614289815501noreply@blogger.com