Market Farming

["Dori Green" <dorigreen00 AT hotmail.com>]

Everything is fine here but I'm going to be silent for a few days -- "Buffy 
the Slayer" surprised me today with a beautiful perfect huge doeling, full 
term and at least a month earlier than I had expected her.  Buffy is a 
stocky little steer-type Experimental (Alpine-Nubian-Spanish mixed breed) 
doe not a year old yet, that baby had to have been folded over double in 
there.  Daddy "Stinky Scotty" is smirking.

Buffy's mother "Not the Momma" is wider than she is tall, and has no tail 
ligaments tonight.  There could be triplets in the barn by morning!

As others who include livestock in their CSA and market farms know, the 
first couple of weeks of human socialization with a new animal can make the 
difference between success with visitors and an animal that's always going 
to be stressed when the crowds of kids arrive.

So that's what I'll be doing, playing with "Ash Grove's Imbolc" rather than 
replying to any posts -- for at least a week or two.  That's okay -- mom and 
baby are doing great and I'm completely in love.

See y'all later!

Dori Green
Ash Grove Community Farm
Corning, NY

http://www.ic.org/agrove

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