I have 2 Jersey cows for sale and 2 Lowline (mini-Angus) beef cows for sale. details below. 8 year old Jersey cow, named Lola, used as our family milk cow since she was 2 years old. She has given birth to 3 calves for us and is a fantastic mother. She is trained to be milked by hand and she is easy to handle. She … Continue reading Cows for Sale

I hatched our first chicks back in November of 2020 but I didn’t get around to posting about them until now. For our first try, it was fairly successful although I would’ve been happier had a few more eggs hatched. We incubated 41 eggs and after candling them a few times we determined that all of them but maybe one contained a viable embryo. During … Continue reading Hatching our first chicks with the incubator

We’ve been trying to get our hands on an incubator since August. I have several roosters and a bunch of beautiful hens and it’s just time for me to admit that I have a chicken/chick addiction! I LOVE everything about hatching new chicks, it’s like magic, and I never get tired of it. Until now we’ve just used broody hens to sit on eggs and … Continue reading The Incubator is Here!

I recently purchased some new Babydoll sheep to add some genetic diversity to my flock.  We picked them up earlier this month from the mountains of Colorado and used a homemade livestock box strapped to our small trailer.  It worked like a charm!!! I’m happy to introduce the new members of our flock: One impressive black ram named Night Shade and three beautiful black yearling … Continue reading The New Sheep Have Arrived!

  Ella had her calf on May 22nd.  A nice healthy bull calf we named Jerry.  He’s doing great!  He will be raised for beef.  A lot of people wonder how we can raise animals for butcher, especially when we we’ve owned them since their birth. It’s actually something I wondered myself when we first started keeping cows.   It’s not as hard as you think … Continue reading Second Calf of 2020

My favorite minature Angus “Bambi”  gave birth last week to a beautiful heifer that we named Flora-Bell.  Last August when Bambi came into heat my AI tech (Artificial Insemination) was out of town and unable to come and service her.  I was headed back for another semester of nursing school in just a few weeks and knew that I would miss seeing any future heat … Continue reading First Calf of 2020

I got a little out of control when I did my spring order of chicks.  There are so many varieties – I wanted to try them all!!!  I definitely fell short of ordering them all but I got a really nice variety.  I ordered 57 from my favorite hatchery (Murray McMurray), and they threw in 3 free chicks – which all arrived healthy and well!  … Continue reading New chicks for 2020