It has been a tough 6 weeks here at Mountain Hollow Farm. If you’ve not read my last blog post, you can catch up here. As we were getting ready to take Grover for cremation last Monday, I noticed that one of our pregnant does, Magic, had something funky hanging out of her back end. …
Tyler digging out the gate. We usually have fun on the farm, but the last couple weeks have been a challenge. On February 21st, we had a 10” snowfall. Including the storms a couple days before AND after that storm, we had a total accumulation of 16”. Those of you who live in areas that …
I just closed the store for the day, put another log on the fire and sat down to watch Sense & Sensibility while I work on our 2013 marketing plan. Sounds like a fun Saturday night, huh? Lest I sound like too much of a bore, last night was fun. We took a llama and …
Recently, we decided to start giving our new goats biblical names. This year we gave our goats names beginning with the letter “A”; next year we’ll do “B” and continue going on down the alphabet. Since Violet was the first of our goats to give birth this year, we named her silver baby boy Adam …
We just purchased two livestock guardian dogs (LGDs). They are a mix of Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepherd. It amazes me that they instinctively know what to do. They are only 8 weeks old but they already show signs of guarding. Especially their food! 😉 We decided to purchase LGDs because we want to run …
Yesterday, I performed my first surgery. Two of them, actually – on goats. That’s right, I finally took the plunge and wethered (castrated) two goats. Since I had never wethered a goat before, we took the larger goat, Elvis, to the Harrogate Hospital for Animals to do it under the supervision of our vet. I …
It’s been snowing a lot here in NE TN lately. Personally, I LOVE the snow, but as a store owner – not so much. Business has been terrible lately. However, we are still busy on the farm. Brett and Ryan are almost done demolishing the wall around our fireplace. We needed to do it because …
Our Ducklings Yes, it’s still cold outside and there are even patches of snow on the ground, but it feels like spring here at Mountain Hollow Farm because we received 15 ducklings in the mail yesterday. In a month or so when they are ready to go outside, we will put them in the pasture …
Today was a sad day. We found Spotless, our mascot goat, dead. He got twisted up in a cross fence in the pasture and couldn’t get out. You hear about things like that happening, but you never think it will happen to yourself. It is really terrible to lose a goat to something like that. …
First, I have to say that I love being a redneck, even if I can only claim part-time status. This story started about 3 weeks ago. Andrew wrecked our car on his way home from college. He is fine but the car is pretty smashed up. Since it is 12 years old, we decided to …