Hollow Hills Ranch & Homestead
The Homestead Life Raising Hair Sheep, Gardening & Enjoying Nature
Shane, his English Cocker Spaniel Huckleberry, and I went for a walk in the woods today since it was sunny and rather nice out. I'm on the tail end of recovering from Covid-19, and we're awaiting test results to see if he and my mother also have it (they have some symptoms). It was a… Continue reading Woods Walk 11/17/21 Covid Edition
My daughter, Morgan, and I decided to go for a walk while the sun was out and the day was absolutely gorgeous! Still haven't seen a great many larger mushrooms though! Weird year. These were on a log in our "Old Barn Pasture": Mycena sp?Mycena sp?False Turkey Tail These were on old cherry tree logs… Continue reading Pasture Walk 11/5/21
My daughter, Morgan, and I went out before breakfast to go sort the sheep, llamas, and horse into lockdown areas before the winds really started to pickup. We're having a doozy of a windstorm with potential for 40mph wind gusts. The babies (as we call the keeper ewe lambs) are in with the horse with… Continue reading Pasture Lockdown 2021
Sales of breeding stock animals are on hold indefinitely at this point. We had a biosecurity issue crop up in one of our St Croix ewes and now must test the entire flock. We will be testing the entire flock every 6 months, roughly, until we get three negatives in a row, ensuring the problem… Continue reading Biosecurity issues
Today I took advantage of the nice weather (rain will be daily in the forecast going forward for quite some time). Went wandering the pastures just to see what might have popped up. Was a little disappointed there weren't more, but was shocked by what I found around our old Cedar Tree in the Orchard.… Continue reading Pasture Walk 10/19/21
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