Dealing with Disappointment

I’m discovering how to help my son deal with disappointment. It’s not easy. All I want to do is protect…

Swine Artificial Insemination

We are in peak breeding season for our 4-H show pigs. We have our show season in January and February.…

Well, a good deal of time is spent cooking around here, with teenage boys to feed. I’m making traditional Monday…

Yesterday we ground and stuffed the sausage, today it gets linked and hung in the smokehouse. It will hang on…

It’s a busy Saturday here. We’ve already bred two sows, milked the cow, finished all barn chores, and now the…

Today we received semen from our chosen boars (breeding males) in the Midwest. We are planning to breed 7 sows and…

Have you ever considered owning a milk cow? It’s a bit more complicated than you may think. It’s rather trendy…

Owen went to get his mare, Cotton, to rope calves. When he brought her out of the stall, he came…

Today we remade my raised garden bed in front of the barn. I had treated landscape timbers there, but nothing…