Always Somethin' Farm

Last night as we were feeding the animals (Dad and I), we were counting up the turkeys and we noticed one of our hens was missing. We found her outside our pasture in the bushes - with 6 young turkey chicks!!!! They couldn't have been more then a day old.  We weren't expecting any chicks, usually they stop laying in early August.

We would like to thank all the buyers at the 2008 Tioga County Fair Livestock Auction for helping to support 4-H. We especially thank Cox's Harley Davidson, for buying Paige's Reserve Champion market hog and Owlett & Lewis, P.C. for buying her other market hog. Thanks to Chuck Koegel for all his help with Paige's hogs, and for buying my market goat, Lou, and giving her back to me as breeding doe! Also thanks to Mansfield Agway for buying my other market goat! We really appriciate you spending your time and money to help 4-H and FFA!

Our garlic is finally ready - it has been picked and aged. This year Dad harvested more then 80 lbs of both regular and elephant garlic.

We also are starting to take orders for Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys. If you are interested in one please let us know.

This week we will all be over at the Tioga County Fair. We brought over 2 hogs, 7 goats and 5 sheep, so we will be pretty busy! Not only do we have animals at the fair, but we also have a few of our farm products; Dad entered Garlic, and I entered two fleeces. If you happen to be over there this week, stop on by and say "hello".

We have moved most of the animals to their summer homes. The chickens are at the very top of the sheep pasture. They are fenced in electric poultry netting and can eat all the fresh grass, and bugs and roam around. The only bad thing to this plan is that we have to haul food and water up there 2-3 times a day, but I guess that is what a tractor is for!

All of the does that have kidded already, and their kids are now out on the side lawn (on the other side of the driveway from the house, for those who have been here). They can roam around and have plenty of pasture. We are also using electric netting for them, so we can move the fence to give them more pasture as they need it. For the does I am still milking, I have to walk them up to the barn twice a day to be milked.