by OogieFarmBlog | Sep 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Today we had 4 students from the Culinary School of the Rockies out to help on the farm and learn about where food comes from.We had a busy day, starting at 7:30 this morning we worked most of the flock. We had several task to perform, most important was to vaccinate...
by OogieFarmBlog | Jul 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Now that the hay is in we can put the rams out on the front pear orchard pasture to clean up the parts we cannot cut. This is the first time that all the sheep are out on pasture at the same time. We have one ewe who is sick in a small pen and a ewe and lamb training...
by OogieFarmBlog | Mar 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Ken,Larry and I burned another 2 piles of brush today. It was a lovely day. Ken putting out small grass fires in the dry old pasture. Larry using his tractor to push the brush up on to the pile. We got almost all of the brush out of the east side of the orchard. Larry...
by OogieFarmBlog | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Today we started the spring brush burning. All the prunings from the trees need to get burned. Larry had a large pile made and Ken burned it today. There is still a lot out in the orchard and we’ll have several burn piles but at least we got started. Desert Weyr...
by OogieFarmBlog | Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
We are now in that last calm period of winter before the major storm of spring work hits.We shear the flock on 28 March and that is the start of the busy season. After shearing we have to get our federal flock inspection done, all the sheep vaccinated, toes trimmed on...
