Category Archives: Farm animals

The Weekend, Part 3 – In Memory of Rion

Posted on October 22, 2012 by farm2011

Sunday afternoon – Selling Rion Well, we sold Rion on Sunday afternoon. I was getting myself ready for this day now for many weeks, and to be honest I was ready for it. Rion and I have come a long … Continue reading →

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Farming

Posted on October 20, 2012 by farm2011

There always something to do on the farm, and it also seems like the cows are always hungry. When they are hungry, they stand by the gate and wait for someone to walk outside in the yard so they can … Continue reading →

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Our chickens are starting to molt

Posted on October 17, 2012 by farm2011

If you have never had chickens, you might not know that they go through something that’s called molting. It happens once a year and for layer chickens, they stop laying eggs until the molting is done and even for a … Continue reading →

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Free at last!

Posted on October 15, 2012 by farm2011

I’ve been debating on letting the chickens out of the chicken coop for some time now, and tonight was the night that they got out. Now some of these chickens have ever been able to run around outside and go … Continue reading →

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Sometimes it’s just better not to ask

Posted on October 10, 2012 by farm2011

I am always amazed how good Daryl is at switching the combine heads from corn to beans and then from beans to corn. And finally I figured out why he’s so good at it. This year with the crops being … Continue reading →

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Harvest is done!

Posted on October 1, 2012 by farm2011

Daryl pulled into the yard tonight with the combine. This is good and also kind of bad. It’s good because now things will start to slow down a little bit, but it’s also bad because it’s the first time that … Continue reading →

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Field work continues

Posted on September 26, 2012 by farm2011

Daryl has been busy combining and hauling corn back and forth from the other farm that he rents.  It’s his brother’s farm and since it’s less than a couple of miles away, it’s pretty convenient. I think combining has been going … Continue reading →

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Happy Cows

Posted on September 16, 2012 by farm2011

I was getting to the end of the small bales of hay that we had stored in the shed, so Daryl went and brought a large bale from the other farm. The cows were just hanging out in the pasture … Continue reading →

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Barn doors and the Iowa State Cyclones

Posted on September 15, 2012 by farm2011

I knew that I needed to be organized in the morning because Daryl and I were leaving around 1:30 in the afternoon to go visit William at college. We also had tickets to the college football game that night. So … Continue reading →

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Back in the saddle again…

Posted on September 13, 2012 by farm2011

‘Back in the saddle again…’ You know the song, and I’m thinking as you were reading this you might even have been humming it. But this is probably the most appropriate title that I could come up with for me … Continue reading →

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