Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Hellifino (Perimeter Patrol)

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Yesterday, our neighbor with the hotel-sized-house (the HSH) called to tell us our goats were eating his garden. Luckily, we were home, and ...
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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 ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Function Over Form

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the calf keeping me company Recently, I made a fairly large purchase: a dozen cattle panels. I have a long term goal of eventually ha...
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...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Cattle (Panel) Rustling

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One of the larger jobs on my to-do list is to finish fencing the smaller pasture with cattle panels so we can use it as a sacrifice area and...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Shoulder, Meet Wheel.

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Now that things are back to normal - houseguests gone, holidays over, home improvement projects completed - I need to get back to work. Just...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Caprine Incest and Inter-Species Affairs (Oh My!)

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Storm Cloud, our handsome herd sire, seems to have impregnated every doe on the farm. None of the three have gone into heat for well over a ...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Forever Fence (Is It a Myth?)

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If I could go back in time, there are a lot of things I would do differently here on the farm. Well, yes, of course, seriously, there are a ...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

To-Do List: 3/10

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In order of immediacy, more or less: - Take a sample of Iris the goat's diarrhea in to the vet for microscopic analysis. She's had s...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

2010 To-Do List

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A few days ago, I was walking the property and making a mental to-do list. I like to to do this about every month - just walk the perimeter,...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's.....

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A flying calf hutch! We knew the windstorm was coming. We took precautions. As usual, we parked a car next to the trampoline and chained the...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Goats Are Pure Evil

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Sure, they're cute, but in fact they're pure evil Just as I was arriving at my sister...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Houdini Goats

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They are escaping again. I understand this is a common and recurring issue with goats... although clearly not the brightest of domestic anim...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Well, That Didn't Take Long

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Note for my Goat Book: All my females were most likely bred today. My Rent-a-Buck, he of the infinitely aromatic testicles, has quickly forc...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Victory is Mine (For Now)!

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When I got back from my 8 hour trip into town, all the goats were still inside their enclosure. 
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Maybe Goats Should be Allowed to Run Free?

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Since they can't be contained.  Good Lord, I am royally sick of trying to contain my goats. The electric fence has been fixed again, and...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Electric Fences Are the Bane of My Existence.

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I think our electric fence represents the poorest return on investment of anything on our farm. I've spent hundreds of dollars and waste...
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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Shock Happy

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Hooray! The electric fence has been working for three whole days now! And the goats are starting to wise up. At first they were getting shoc...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Great Goat Escape

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Nobody I know has the troubles I do with containing their livestock. Remember the chickens that almost started a neighborly feud? Remember w...
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Monday, November 3, 2008

November Blues

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Nothing works on the farm. The electric fence is still broke, despite two temper tantrums on my part and a first class marital spat. Homero ...