Animals and Cold Weather

As I write this the outside temperature is -13 degrees, with a wind chill of -41 degrees. That’s just downright cold by anyone’s standards. News stations have been advising that people bring their pets indoors until this cold snap passes in a couple days, and that’s good advice. It is dangerous for animals that are […]
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Ron Thieme
- Posted in About the Farm, Cattle, Poultry
Jan, 06, 2014
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What a bunch of turkeys

I’ve never raised turkeys before. When I was a kid, we had the obligatory flock of laying hens that supplied us with fresh eggs, and sometimes enough to sell to friends and neighbors. And Mom would get about 100 chicks each spring and raise them to butcher in the summer to put meat on our […]
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Ron Thieme
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Aug, 06, 2013
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