Two More

Meet Fee and Freefall, Twins born on Sunday May 3rd. Fee is the black and white girl and Freefall is the Moorit Boy, who will have horns.

With two sets of healthy twins we are done with lambing for the season. We will keep all three girls, but Freefall will be for sale later this summer.

Although the grass is growing we still need more pasture and Krys has been building fence and getting the old fence ready. Our Animal numbers are growing and the more mouths the more feed.

The first batch of meat bird chicks will arrive next week and if all goes well the piglets will be on pasture by May 17th.

If you want to see all the animals just give us a call.

Piglets and Lambs

The Piglets arrived last weekend and these two lambs were born yesterday afternoon. They are about 2 hours old in this photo. If the weather stays nice the piglets should be out in pasture in a couple weeks. We are very excited about the Lambs, that we named Eden(brown) and Evyl(black) both girls. Their mother, Eve is doing well and gave birth without assistance. We hope to have Flash lamb by the end of the week.

SPRING!!!

Spring has finally come. Welcome Bo(Duke), the first calf of the season. Krys found this little guy Saturday morning on his way down to the barn. It is always a joy when you find a calf by it's mother's side and know it is healthy.

Monday when I returned from work, Lady had a new calf by her side. Lilly is her name and she is full of spunk. Her mother would not let me anywhere near little calf. Protective does not even describe it.

So two calves down, Ten to go. I will keep you all up to date.

Lambs are due in May.

Happy Holidays

Winter is here. It always takes a little bit of -10 to remind you that winter is a hard time of the year. Frozen pipes, frozen water buckets, and of course frozen us.

The sheep don't seem to mind and the cows are content, the chickens though are awaiting spring.

Although it is cold and chores seem to take longer, winter is full of recreational opportunities. Make sure you get out there and enjoy the snow.

Have a safe and joyful Holiday season!

Farm Help Housing

He may be small, but his labor is free.

This is Owen, an up and coming farmhand at Twiss Hill. This summer Owen helped collect eggs(only cracked a couple), and rode with Krys on the tractor during haying. We are always happy to have kids on the farm and if they are old enough to walk we can usually find a job for them.

Winter has come once again, we woke up to a complete snow cover. The animals are all close to the barns for winter and eating the we made this summer. 9 cows are bred, with 2 more as a maybe. Bull has done his job and we will be keeping him for at least one more season. As far as the sheep go, I guess we will see in the spring. Cowboy(our Ram)is very interested in the ladies, but we are not sure if they are taking to him. Time will tell.

It's deer hunting season in Vermont and Krys has told me he will be filling our freezer with venison. I hope he does, but so far all we have seen are does.

Not much more to report, it's winter and sleeping and eating is about it for the animals until spring.

October 29th

SNOW!!! Just a little reminder from winter that it is coming and we need to be ready. Not sure all of the chickens were as excited as this one.

Greener Pastures

Green Pastures in October? Each fall we let the cows into the meadow behind the barn. We have taken two cuts of hay off of it and we let the girls get the third. To get the most out of the grass, every other day Krys moves the fence forward 20 feet or so. This is called strip grazing. The cows do a great job and we save fuel and feed by letting them do the mowing. In the future we hope do do more strip grazing in our pastures, but it takes a lot of time and careful planning of water tubs and fencing.