Category Archives: Critters
Ticks
How has it been in your area this year in regards to ticks? With the crazy wet garden season it has meant that we have not been able to mow things as low as we have been over the past … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Critters, Food Forest, Health, homestead, Personal Care, Real Life
Tagged Checking for ticks, Dogs, Health, Hunters and ticks, Increase in tick born illness, lyme-disease, mowing low for ticks, pets and ticks, poetry, preventing ticks, Tick habitat, Tick removal, tick removal kits, Tick testing in canada, Tick tracking, Ticks, ticks on the homestead, wood paths in your gardens
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Wood Shaving Shortage
if you have not already put up a order of wood shaving for bedding, might want to get that order in sooner then later.. there is up and coming wood shaving shortage coming across Canada this winter.. The slowed production … Continue reading
Local Grass-fed Beef Order
I was thrilled to pick up my quarter beef of local (up the road about ten min) of grass fed beef. I have a lot of chicken, turkey, duck, goat, pork and will have a good amount of lamb.. so … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table, Critters
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Baby’s Hatching.. New little Wee ones join the farm
Look what hatched by the pond! New baby turtles joined our farm and our new front pond! How exciting! Now we have laying and hatching native turtles in both our back pond and in our front yard pond.. Hubby had … Continue reading
No Spring Kittens for us!
Little Baby LeeLoo was growing up fast and turned six months old.. With the longer days and the warm sunlight it was only a matter of time before she was going to go into her first heat and we all … Continue reading
Treating Mild Hypothermia in Ducks
Its bone chilling cold, we have been sitting between -35 to -38 for close to 24 hours, and we had a solid dump of snow of around a foot at the “warmest haha” part of the afternoon in full deep … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter cold on the homestead, Cold weather events, Mild Hypothermia in Ducks
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Do you want your Lambs or Kids to be birthed in daytime hours?
Would you like to know how a simple change can help increase your flock or herd’s day time lambing rates? Do you dislike cold winter all night baby watch, checks and 1 to 4 am birthing times. How you ask? … Continue reading
Skunked! How to remove the smell from your dogs!?
The house has a whiff of skunk.. I have company coming next weekend and so I have a week LOL to try to air out/clean the house. On Friday Night the hounds headed out the door to do evening chores … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 