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Monday, June 04, 2007

New Lamb

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We weren't expecting this little girl. We are way past due on the lambing and I simply thought that we weren't going to have any. Ye...
Monday, May 28, 2007

766 Cultivating

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766 Seeding Wheat

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Monday, May 07, 2007

The New Lambing Barn

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I had a busy few days this past weekend...I needed to fence a new paddock with the wire mesh "farm fencing" so that the sheep coul...
Friday, May 04, 2007

Spring Field Work

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Here is the 766 hard at work with the breaking disc. The breaking disc is a very heavy implement with large diameter discs. This implement d...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Another Generation of Large Blacks!

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Last year, about this time, I sold a couple of Large Black gilts to a fellow in Manitoba. Yesterday he e-mailed me this picture of his first...
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Spring Field Work

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Spring work has been frustrating so far this year. The 766 is working well, but we have encountered some unexpected field conditions while p...
Friday, April 20, 2007

The Brooder

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We brood our day-olds in an old horse water trough. It works well and is so deep that it allows us to continually add bedding all the while ...

Chicken Season 2007!

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Chicken season is underway once more. Yesterday, Cindy travelled to Rochester Hatchery in Westlock to pick up 314 day-old chicks. This year ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The 766 with a new coat

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Here is the new 766 ready for the field. I gave her a quick new coat of paint, changed the fluids and cleaned out the cab along with a few o...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

New Mix Mill

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I went ahead and picked up an old New Holland Mix Mill last weekend. It was at a good price of $400. I haven't seen one in any condition...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

A new tractor!

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I haven't posted in a while but that ought to be changing any time now. Spring is almost here and with that, we will be working steadily...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

We Have Our Turkeys!

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Finally, we have our heritage breed turkeys! We have been looking for quite some time for a breeding pair of turkeys and I hooked up with Ju...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

what....

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Prudence was enjoying a nice mid-afternoon snack yesterday when I snapped a photo of her. It is funny how the picture turned out because it ...

A Full Load

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I made a couple trips to Vince's place over the weekend. He had a fairly large pile of small, square alfalfa bales that a helper didn...

Horse Trailer Full...

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Unloading the loose, broken bales of alfalfa hay.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Haulin Feed

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This past weekend I hauled a little over 6000 pounds of Rye screenings and flax from my friend Vince's farm about 3/4 of an hour away ne...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The New Loading Ramp

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This is the loading ramp I was talking about earlier. It only took me 2 hours to build and is fairly simple. I made it about 36" high w...
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Our new sow

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A couple weekends ago, I needed to get some more pigs for the meat market. There is an older fellow north of Edmonton that had some piglets ...

Sheep at the feeder

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Here is one of the latest carpentry projects that I have completed. At first I built the crib for the hay to set in. Quickly though, the she...
Monday, January 29, 2007

New Carpentry

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I have to say that my carpentry skills are improving. A few years ago, building something like a loading ramp or a simple feeder would have ...

A Recent Trip

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This is a little footage from my recent trip to S. Alberta to pick up the sheep. I love southern Alberta, especially at sunrise and sunset. ...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Little Boar For Sale

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Here is the little boar from my last litter. He is a really good example of a young Large Black Pig. His conformation is excellent and he ha...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Butchering Cows

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We have had two Hereford cows on our farm since early Summer. They belong to friends of ours that were short of pasture and we had an excess...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

New Sheep!

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Over the holidays I made a trip down to Lethbridge Alberta to pick up our newly purchased flock of Clun Forest Sheep. I bought three ewes an...