A friend was helping us with our new pet food business; she picked up some chicken for us from a different source when our primary supplier ran out. She kept some of the chicken for herself and began to grind it for her dogs. Immediately she noticed that it was not the same as whatContinue reading “Chicken Mush”
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Somebody Ought To Write A Song
Somebody ought to write a song about livestock guard dogs! Yes I am enamored with these dogs and want to tell everyone, but maybe you already knew about them. Since we are relatively new to the whole farming thing we are still fascinated by what some people have known about for centuries. Working dogs inContinue reading “Somebody Ought To Write A Song”
Summer Lambs
I love summer lambs! Even though we have never lost a lamb to the weather, I still worry when it is very cold and the wind howls terribly. In the summer it is so easy on the new lambs and their mothers. I look at nature and think it is not natural to have youngContinue reading “Summer Lambs”
We Were the First
I got a call yesterday from the Alpaca Meat Council. I expected to see others copy what we had done, but that is not what really happened. They just saw what was obvious and did it. Since these people had more resources than we did they were able to do it bigger and better too.Continue reading “We Were the First”
The Price of Chicken
We use to buy the poultry from our county fair after the children were through showing them. We did this for a few years then stopped and told a friend that we would not be bidding on these birds anymore and that they needed someone else to buy them. This friend has now told meContinue reading “The Price of Chicken”
The Price of Dog Food
The cost of food for people has been going up recently and the media and the powers behind the media are already preparing us for an even larger increase coming soon. We farmers produce the basic ingredients of food so we are aware of what is to come in the way of price increases aContinue reading “The Price of Dog Food”
Your Veterinarian and Raw Meat
If you have considered changing what you feed your dog and are looking for some professional consultation you need to know that you can’t talk to your dog’s vet about feeding raw meat. Veterinarians are educated and trained in the “system”, that means going outside the corporate model is not something they can deal with,Continue reading “Your Veterinarian and Raw Meat”
Living With Dogs – Chapter 1
For most of my life, the part where I worked for some corporation or other, I had no dogs around me because I didn’t want any. I have never been anti dog but I was definitely indifferent toward them and small dogs did not have any appeal at all to me. Angie had a smallContinue reading “Living With Dogs – Chapter 1”
