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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: February 2011
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. 2 Roos and a Bevy of Barred Rocks. We made it through the winter and only lost a couple of hens. Three of our 6 chicks that we hatched late September made it. We lost 1 of them to a predator, 1 to Luke our livestock guardian dog, and 1 just disappeared. Of the 3 survivors, 2 are pullets and 1 cockerel. They are about 5 months old now. Last fall, I wrote...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: August 2013
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, August 31, 2013. I feel like we've been on hiatus for the past year or so. Leaving the corporate world 2 years ago was my dream come true. I'd have time to build my dog training business, take care of the farm, get my house in order, and have time to spin my ever-growing supply of alpaca fleece. We are the only property on our road to have an ag exemption. And have alpaca ...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Back to Business
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, August 31, 2013. I feel like we've been on hiatus for the past year or so. Leaving the corporate world 2 years ago was my dream come true. I'd have time to build my dog training business, take care of the farm, get my house in order, and have time to spin my ever-growing supply of alpaca fleece. We are the only property on our road to have an ag exemption. And have alpaca ...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Why Buy Local Farm Eggs?
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Thursday, June 9, 2011. Why Buy Local Farm Eggs? Someone asked me the other day about the benefits of eating farm fresh, free range eggs. My first thought was to tell them that it’s like eating green beans from the garden as compared to ones with Libby on the label. But then, maybe not everyone gets that either. 8226; 1/3 less cholesterol. 8226; 1/4 less saturated fat. Last fall, so...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: September 2013
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Wednesday, September 18, 2013. A couple of years ago, we added some girls to our herd and last fall we decided it was time to try for some babies. Female alpacas carry their babies (crias) for an average of 355 days. We learned (too late) that fall babies are born earlier than spring babies, probably because of the heat. And, boy, did we have heat this summer. Star is a first time m...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: August 2012
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Monday, August 6, 2012. Surviving the Texas Summer. This spring, we bought some Black Copper Marans chicks. This breed of bird lays very dark brown, chocolate-colored eggs, which I thought would be a nice contrast to the pretty blue and green eggs that our Americaunas produce. We're all trying to stay cool here while the temperature soars with no end in sight in the forecast. Cali t...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Setting up Shop
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, October 5, 2013. My shop/office/workspace has been evolving for the past 3 years. It started as a hay barn with a good roof, but not much else. It's grown into a 24x24 building where I work on my fiber and manage the dog training business. We welcome visitors by appointment to the farm and the shop. We enjoy having home-schoolers and other small groups of kids and adul...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Gourmet Garlic
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, July 2, 2011. Never one to give up without a fight, Chet salvaged what he could and we ended up with a nice little harvest of 5 different varieties of gourmet garlic! Persian Star is a hardnecked garlic and it's really tasty. It's a sweet garlic when you roast it. I baked a clove to have with pasta last week and it was awesome! Bagged and on its way to OK! Distinctive Dog ...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Where Does Your Meat Come From?
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Where Does Your Meat Come From? Our jobs moved from Arizona to Texas and when we packed up the house, the chickens came along. They traveled in dog crates in the back of the Impala and the Suburban. They were part of the family and we weren't going to leave them behind. Chet had butchered a couple of older birds before, but we didn't eat them. The older t...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: April 2011
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Sunday, April 24, 2011. There were huge pieces of metal all over our yard, in Chet's garden as well as in our neighbor's yard directly to the north. Power line taken down. We lost half our garlic crop as the roof made its way over the garden and into the next yard. Huge pieces of our barn roof in our neighbor's yard across the fence. We don't usually see sky from inside the barn.
