Friday, April 1, 2011

Keeping Bees?

Natural Beekeeping

Reading at this site and have commissioned Tom to build me a Top Bar Hive to put in the center of the orchard. I've been fascinated with it for years, and this actually seems do-able - got me all excited!!! :-)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ruby's kits - day 8

Sorry for the noisy radio, kids were listening to "Adventures in Odyssey". Bunnies are starting to open their eyes just a bit, and are beginning to exercise their back leg muscles - hopping will begin soon, erratic and uncontrolled still now. Funny!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Dogs to the vet

We took all 3 big dogs to the vet today. Tom took the morning off so that he could help me. It was not as difficult as I thought it might be. We loaded them all up in the farm van and took them in one at a time. Molly got weighed and got her rabies shot, she weighed about 50#. Carl got weighed and got his rabies shot, he also weighed about 50# and he stayed the day and was neutered (did not phase him a bit - ha!). Samson got weighed, about 60# at 4 months of age, and got his rabies shot. Now to get them all licensed and everyone is set!

Ruby's kits - 1 week old!

Samson @ 3 weeks old

This is a video of the litter of pups that our Samson came from (at Bearskin Creek Fiber Farm). They are 3 weeks old here. He is the one with dark ears, dark spots over his eyes, around his tail and a dark spot on his left side (these spots lightened as he grew).

Monday, March 28, 2011