Pages tagged with Farm
A Roundel poem about life on the farm. I grew up on a farm and have fond memories of it. I loved living in the country where you did not have to have a gun under your pillow. You could sleep with your doors open.
Llamas and Alpacas use to be a rare, and expensive, but now their price has dropped and pretty much anyone with some land can keep them as pets. They are often used to guard sheep and goats. Knowing how to care for them is important.
If the weathered and rusted one-furrow plough which I found the other day among the rubble on a table at a farmyard rummage sale, could think and speak, it would be able to produce a front page scoop for a newspaper.
Last week one of our ewes had triplets, only days later another ewe had twins. The new twins look like baby cows.
This article is about some of the pets that you can keep outdoors. Not everyone wants pets in their house so why not get an outdoor only pet. Also learn why cats and most dogs should not be outdoor only pets.
This year's lambing is out of the way. I want to share with my readers the tales of lambing from 2012. We had 8 ewes, and one ram. In the day they are in a pasture, but at night they are in the winter. This is Canada and we have snow on the ground, coyotes in the area, and it stil...
Researchers are looking to urine as an energy source to power a fuel cell or provide combustible gas.
What will you find at Beamish Living museum? Read on to find out and be prepared for a great day out. I have included as much as I remember but there is a lot more for everyone to go and discover. Have fun and remember to check out the gift shop at the end for mementos.
As my babies provide me such love, laughter and fun every day - and also comfort when I need it - I thought I’d share a page all about them - who they are, photos of the lovely gals and guys - and well, just a page of my chickens, turkeys, guineas, pigs, and the kid of course!
A girls trip to British Columbia, Canada involved a visit to a local farm. We were so keen to ride the train, we were the first ones aboard!
Pearls are different from gemstones in many ways. For example, pearls come from beneath water, whereas gemstones come from beneath the earth.
I wrote this science fiction story back in 1996 but recently stumbled across it and thought I would share it with you. The setting is earth, the time is in the future.
Many people wish to end suffering of animals but do not know where to start. One thing you can do to end the suffering of millions of hens is by selecting eggs that were not created using cruel battery farms.
If you have a hobby farm, or acreage, you may be wondering how to prepare for the winter. How to keep your animals warm in cold weather, or how to feed livestock animals in winter.
The Farmer provides us all with sustanance and yet is rarely praised for his amazing work. This poem is dedicated to the Farmers, with thanks.
An Australian farming family has weathered droughts, floods and fires, but now faces a new kind of threat -from within.
There are places where people don't get rain for days.Here in this poem i have tried to describe the emotions of a girl who is longing for rain.
As our society becomes more and more health and socially conscious, we must examine where our food is coming from. It may come as a shock to many that the animals we eat are kept in unsavory living conditions until their death. By the end of this article, you might want to be a vegeta...
The Aussie dollar is getting moment and it is in so many years Australia dollar is worth more than American dollar. The growth and strength of Aussie currency depend on many economic activities including mining and manufacturing. Agriculture or farm is seen as one of the sustainable e...
When my wife and I returned home one day at the end of a long weekend we found three kittens in our barn, as all our cats are fixed we knew they did not come from them and must have been abandoned.
When I moved to a hobby farm I had to learn a lot about some farm animals. This is a basic introduction to some farm animals, with links to further resources.
A young boys adventure, with a Dairy Farm Bull, during summer vacation to the family farm in Idaho.
Eva Knievel is a funny story about my wife's first and only attempt at driving a four wheeler.
