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I recently discovered FarmVille and now I'm hooked. I'd love to have some new neighbors, if anyone is interested. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000634472610 Here's a link to my FB profile. If you want to add me as a friend, mention FarmVille or the SS forum...

I recently joined FaceBook to keep in touch with some friends and while I was exploring, I came across a virtual farm game called FarmVille. Some of you may be familiar with it, but for those who aren't, it's a game where you create your own virtual farm, with animals and crops. You tend the...

I haven't been on the forum for a couple of days and just got caught up. I'm so sorry about the loss of both ewes, but please try not to blame yourself. You did all you could and their problems had nothing to do with your care or your ability to raise sheep. These were rescues who didn't have...

That is all any animal could ever want. You were obviously chosen to provide her with that for her last few months. It was a wonderful gift to her.

I'm very sorry things turned out so badly. :hugs

If it were me, I'd get the vet to see her again ASAP. I had a goat doe with the same symptoms and the outcome wasn't good. It was as if she was in labor but not dilated and therefore couldn't deliver.

And, apparently, good girl Angel, too. When I finally did go outside this morning, I got terribly confused. One of the girls came crawling out of the dog house. I looked up the driveway and "Ellie" was still sleeping at the hay bale. What the ???? All the dogs look very much a like...

Anybody sick of hearing about my dog's exploits yet? :D I'm just so tickled, I had to tell someone. I got up this morning and, as usual, looked out the window. One of the boys was in the dog house by the house here and the other was asleep beside the round bale out in the yard that I feed the...

No, they use wire snares now. They're far deadlier, actually...virtually impossible to escape from.

I tried one of those heated water bowls but it didn't hold enough water and what little there was got terribly filthy in nothing flat. At least with the bucket, the muck that does get in it sinks to the bottom and the chickens still have clean water above. I still have to empty and clean it...

Lori, for us, chipping ice every morning isn't an option. Given where we live, it drops below freezing sometime in November (although this year, early December was exceptionally warm) and stays that way till March or April. I use water warmers, or de-icers as some people call them, in all of...

Well, I hadn't planned to test Ellie's willingness to stay home quite so soon, but she had other ideas. When I put out hay for the goats, I tie the girls up so they don't escape when the gate is open but the instant the I swung the gate open this afternoon, Ellie slipped out of her collar and...

The ongoing saga of my dog problems had an encouraging development today. We are dog-sitting for some neighbors who are away, so their two dogs are in the run right outside our back door. I have to put out hot water for them twice a day, so that was the first task when DH and I went out to do...

From my family to yours...

I think we all need support when we start a new venture and, as time goes on, to keep up the interest and enthusiasm, but that support doesn't necessarily have to come from family members. If you decide to do this, do it for YOU (as so many have said) and then seek the support you need from...

Thanks, everybody. I do know it's nature's way and it's probably also God's way of keeping me from having to constantly nurse a weak animal. Like I said, stuff like this tends to make me over-think things. Normally, thinking about the additions and improvements I want to make around here is...

"Momma" is right. This little guy was a bottle baby.

Masai, the Nubian bottle baby buckling I bought last spring, succumbed to pneumonia today. In his short 8 months of life, he had a respiratory infection 3 times. Something just wasn't right with him, I guess. This time, with the brutally cold temperatures we had, it was just too much for him...

I can't tell you what a relief it was to get that thing out. This afternoon, I indulged in the simple pleasure of having a shower, something I haven't done since July!! Now, don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a bath, but to me a bath is for soaking and relaxing in the evening. A shower is what...

To those who mentioned it, trust me, the boys won't be left unsupervised for a long time yet. In fact, I had DH come out with me and do some of the chores that take me out of sight so I could supervise the dogs and that will continue for a while.