Deer on the Trail Camera...
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Trail Camera.....Bottle Calves
Bottle Babies
The bottle calves are doing quite well.
They drink a 3 pint bottle of milk 3 x daily.
I have offered them hay and grain.
The red grain box is always empty?
I wanted to see who was eating all of the grain?
I thought maybe the barn swallows
were eating it?
Maybe our chickens were eating it?
were eating it?
Maybe our chickens were eating it?
We set up the trail camera in the calf pen
to see who was eating the grain...
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It looks like Number 25
is eating most of the grain.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Whole Cloth....Progress
Earlier this month I completed the
design work on paper
for my next whole cloth quilt...
Layer 1.....Basic Design Lines
Layer 2.....Larger Motifs
Layer 3....Fill Work
36 inch square quilt size
You are looking through all 3 layers
of the design on paper.
The border feathers on this design are
very large.
I decided to baste up a practice sandwich
so I could practice stitching out
very large feathers...
After the feather work,
I decided to finish off the sandwich with some
background fills...
I used this grid stencil to chalk out
the lines for the right side of the sandwich...
Then I stitched a double wedding ring design
within the straight line grid work.
I chalked out a clam shell stencil
for the left side of the sandwich...
I stitched 2 little eyelashes on the inside
of each clam shell shape.
It was good feather stitching practice
as well as background fill work FUN!
I may turn this into a tote bag or
tablerunner?
Yesterday I transferred the design lines
from the paper onto the satin fabric
using a light box and blue water erase pen:
I only need the main design lines
traced onto fabric.
The remainder of the design is
free motion stitching.
This is now basted into a
36 inch square quilting sandwich
and is ready to go under the needle.
36 inch square quilting sandwich
and is ready to go under the needle.
I will take photos and share my progress
as I machine quilt this whole cloth quilt.
More To Come!
Enjoy a goat video below:
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Surprise.....another set of Twins
We can go for years and never have a set of
TWINS...
TWINS...
Yesterday we had our third set of twin calves.
Their mother is a 1st time heifer...
heifers rarely make much milk.....sigh.
We have them sorted off into a smaller pasture
so we can keep an eye on them for a few days
to be sure the heifer is caring for them.
The goats peeked around the corner of the barn
to see what all the commotion was about
while we were sorting off the new twins.
We have 5 heifers left to calve.
Then we can put this calving season to rest.
I captured a video of the heifer
and her first calf...
and her first calf...
we did not realize she had a twin
until the next morning....ugh.
until the next morning....ugh.
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
Bottle Babies...
This 2 month old twin calf number 25
is living @ our barn here @ home
and we are feeding him on a bottle...
He is lonely and bawls a lot.
The barn is next to our house, so we can
hear him....LOUD and CLEAR!
We made a trip to the dairy this week
and look what we brought home:
A day old Holstein bull calf...
He has super long legs and looks like a giraffe!
Number 25 likes him...
they sleep together in the barn
and number 25 doesn't bawl anymore.
I captured video of these 2 babies
you can view it below:
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Twin bull calf....comes home
It has been 2 long months trying to keep
this cow and her twin calves together...
Mama Cow and her Twin Calves
Mama has never cared for her bull calf....
number 25
We have come to the pasture today
to check up on him...
He is alone, abandoned and hungry.
It is time to bring him home
and feed him on a bottle.
We are out in the pasture in the video below:
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Moving Day......Twin Calves
For those of you who have been following
the story of Mama cow and her twins
for the past two months...
Today is moving day...
We will put both calves out to pasture
with their mama...
We are hoping mama will feed BOTH twins,
up until now she has preferred the heifer calf
and not the bull calf.
Below is a video of moving them to pasture:
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