Showing posts with label cow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cow. Show all posts
Monday, September 19, 2022

Meat Math, Bovine Edition (GRAPHIC)

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Not a very good picture, but that is a 40 quart stockpot, with  substantially less than half of a freshly butchered steer’s head submerged ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Pasture Puzzle (All Flesh is Grass)

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This year the grass has been slow to start growing. It’s been a very cold, wet spring. But finally, nearing the end of April, after months ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

State of the Farm, Late Spring 2017

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Nettles in the weeds The long, horrible, wet "spring" of 2017 is finally giving way to some warmer and drier weather. I r...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Cows and Compromise

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One of Homero's clients just traded him a newborn Jersey heifer for a complete engine rebuild on his truck. She's healthy and ador...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Pig and Cow (Major Meat)

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Long summer evenings and good weather have us out in the yard until late in the day. I haven't mowed the back yard in a few weeks; ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

State of the Farm Summer Solstice (Drought 2015)

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There are still almost two weeks until solstice, but with the weather we've been having, it feels very much like summer. In fact, it fee...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Cow Caper (Good Neighbors)

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Yesterday as I was returning home with a car full of girls from their various lessons - gymnastics for some, English for others - I got a ca...
Friday, April 25, 2014

New Pasture (No More Monkeys)

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A couple of weeks ago, during a short stretch of good weather, Homero and the Unofficial Farmhand (hereinafter U.F., also known as Phil, my ...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Baby It's Cold Outside (and Inside)!

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We are in the middle of one of the most prolonged cold snaps I can remember. This is the third or fourth day that the mercury hasn't ris...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Pasture Puzzle (Chucking Monkeys)

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Bully Hope has been bringing home logic puzzles as homework lately. A man is trying to get a cat, a dog, and a mouse across a river in a...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Meet the Cow (Chalk One Up for the Husband)

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Homero has a friend who works at a local dairy. At any given time they have a few hundred cows and dozens of calves. Yesterday Homero g...
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