Farm Fodder

October Update

We have put up about half of the hay we need for winter, and are
preparing everything for the inevitable cold weather. 

It is hard saying goodbye to sunshine, warmth and long daylight
hours. 

Now I have maybe 2 hours to work in after I get home from my job, and
i find that things are getting done much more slowly as a result. None
the less, things are getting done. 

Jessie's puppies are now 7 weeks old. I just put an ad in the
newspaper for selling them. This is likely to be Jessie's last litter.

She has given us 2 wonderful litters of beautiful pups, but we don't
want to over-breed her. She is such a good farm dog, we couldn't
imagine not having her around. Northwest Farm Terriers give all they
have to their masters willingly, and are loving, good natured, great
with children, adults, animals and anything else that comes along...
as long as they are welcome. 

Our Jessie has taken down a skunk ( and not gotten sprayed), weasel,
rat, many birds trying to get our blueberries, but has never injured
one of our goats, chickens or anything else that "belongs here". 

We will very much miss having puppies around ( especially our two
boys), but we want Jessie to be healthy her entire life - 

We have had several inquiries about chickens butchered for people.
Unfortunately we never received order requests when we asked for them,
so we have very few left for people at this point. Next year, around
February, we would like for you to inform us how many you would like
and we will work towards filling your requests. We will not be doing
the hybrid "broilers" because they require commercial feeds, which,
for natural and organic sources, have become too expensive for us. We
will be using large meat breeds, which will take longer to fill out
(12 - 16 weeks as opposed to 8 weeks), but will be able to forage on
their own without much additional feed rations. 

We still have honey and have just purchased another 50 chicks for
laying hens in a few months, to help with the added number of requests
for eggs. 

To Your Health,

P & M Weber

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