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What a beautiful day to hang out with the babies. ❤️
11/12/2025

What a beautiful day to hang out with the babies. ❤️

Batch 1 kunekune lard soap made!! Not going to "lye", I had a bit of anxiety when it came time to mix the lye solution. ...
11/10/2025

Batch 1 kunekune lard soap made!! Not going to "lye", I had a bit of anxiety when it came time to mix the lye solution. Next time it will be easier. This round, I made apricot peach basil daiquiri with apricot shells, lavendar woods honey, iced coffee, and satsuma. Cannot wait to see how they turn out in 30 days!

Batch #2 of our pasture raised kunekune lard into the crock pot for rendering. Yesterday, I rendered a batch as well. T...
11/08/2025

Batch #2 of our pasture raised kunekune lard into the crock pot for rendering. Yesterday, I rendered a batch as well. Tomorrow, I will make my first ever batch of cold processed lard soap. So excited to see how it turns out!

Yesterday, I took a cold process soap making class with my good friends and It was not the most informative class, but...
11/02/2025

Yesterday, I took a cold process soap making class with my good friends and
It was not the most informative class, but it was a beautiful day out with friends. It also inspired me to research cold processed lard soap from our kunekune lard. Supplies will be ordered this week, and hopefully, next weekend, I can try to make a batch!

Sawyer has been at the neighbors since September 28. Today we picked him up and brought him home. He looks great. They t...
11/02/2025

Sawyer has been at the neighbors since September 28. Today we picked him up and brought him home. He looks great. They took very good care of him. Hopefully, they get some beautiful lambs out of him. I only used him on 2 ewes this year. 1 caught for sure. The vet said the other did as well, but she was re-marked by Perry. I'm hoping she wasn't actually rebred. We will know soon enough. She should be due in December. I have another ewe that was marked open at ultrasound as well, but she must not be. Perry has been in with the girls for 23 days and she has not been remarked. She looks pregnant to me. Again, we will soon see. Fingers crossed!

Normally, I like to breed in August for late December, babies. That was just not in the cards for us this year. With the...
10/24/2025

Normally, I like to breed in August for late December, babies. That was just not in the cards for us this year. With the heat, only 2 ewes caught, and looking at markings, 1 of those lost her lambs and has been rebred (sadly by the wrong ram). The 3 replacement ewes we bought were simply too small until now.
I am trying to look more logically at our breeding schedules again and determine the best time of year. March lambs are actually pretty perfect for grass management and utilization. December babies are nice to ensure butcher weight before winter and fall breeding, but there are many downsides as well. I just have to decide if we will lamb 2 groups each year, first timers, and seasoned ewes. What do you do on your farm?

I have wanted a freeze dryer for years. With surgery coming up in a few days and too many potatoes and tomatoes to still...
10/12/2025

I have wanted a freeze dryer for years. With surgery coming up in a few days and too many potatoes and tomatoes to still deal with, bought me my dryer and spent the morning getting it set up for the test run. Can't wait to try ALL the things!

RSH Jenny 1 and RSH Andrew 1 had a stunning litter of 9 tonight. Queenie is a champ! 4 black, 3 ginger, 2 brown and whi...
10/07/2025

RSH Jenny 1 and RSH Andrew 1 had a stunning litter of 9 tonight. Queenie is a champ! 4 black, 3 ginger, 2 brown and white. Can't wait to get a better count on blue and pinks. So far, 2 ginger gilts, 1 ginger boarling, 1 of each for the brown and white spotted, and 1 of each black. 2 left to check.

RSH Jenny 1 "Queenie" and WN Tapeka 27 "Synne" have been brought in off pasture for farrowing. They will get pampered in...
10/01/2025

RSH Jenny 1 "Queenie" and WN Tapeka 27 "Synne" have been brought in off pasture for farrowing. They will get pampered in the mini barn pen for a few days and then move into the barn Friday or Saturday. Queenie is due to farrow Monday and Synne on Thanksgiving weekend. Astrid will stay out on pasture for a couple more weeks.
Going to be busy around here!

Picked up our kunekune pork from the butcher today. We butchered a young boar and turned him into sausage. I chose 4 hea...
09/30/2025

Picked up our kunekune pork from the butcher today. We butchered a young boar and turned him into sausage. I chose 4 heavily spiced sausages to cover any taint. Theringer, rockworst, farmers, and chorizo. I can smell boar taint as it cooks but no taste of it at all. All 4 flavors are incredible! It is a great option for downsizing too many boars. We will 100% order all 4 of these flavors again!

It was another great APBA Poultry Show in Olds. Our barred rocks are too young or molting so we only took our Silver App...
09/28/2025

It was another great APBA Poultry Show in Olds. Our barred rocks are too young or molting so we only took our Silver Appleyards this year. Our cockeral took Champion Heavy Duck, and Best of Breed. 1 of our 3 pullets took Reserve Breed. I had the pleasure of clerking for Rico Sebastianelli for the morning and learned so much from him.
There is a show in January in Stony Plain for anyone wanting to try it out. If you don't want to show, it is such an amazing place to learn more about all types of poultry from the best breeders out there. What a blessing it is to learn from all of them!
Congratulations to everyone today. 👏

09/18/2025

Last night to enter in the Poultry Show in Olds. Going to be a great time!
Who's going?

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