(post by Jason) A few weeks ago I did a series of nutritional consultations involving ration analysis and some troubleshooting at a...

We survived. The weather system has moved on to torture some other poor souls and our state of emergency has officially ended. Of course...

On January 5th our governor declared the state of Tennessee to be in a statewide state of emergency due to the severe cold weather. To be...

(post by Jason) As many of you know I spent nearly 20 years working for others in the feed industry in various consultative, nutritional...

(post by Jason) After a spring and summer that was much below normal for temperature and much above normal for moisture we were really...

I think our Schipperke, Bear, had more fans and admirers than all the other horses, dogs, goats and various pets on our farm put together....

(post by Jason) Now there’s a sexy job description and blog post title ! Nevertheless, that’s exactly what I spent much of the middle of...

After a couple of months of not working together as Jason recovered from his surgery we are now, for better or worse, working together...

(Post by Jason) Six weeks ago today I showed up at our local hospital to have a small but troublesome congenital hernia repaired. The...

This was way too funny – and accurate – not to share. Just about every one of our residents could have written this post as I have been...

This brief article and illustration, titled “One Horse, One Week of Injections” was in the New York Times recently. The original article...

Anyone who uses electric fence knows that the most critical detail regarding fence management is to always keep the fence hot. However,...

The topic of weight has come up in my conversations with people a lot lately in a variety of contexts. Weight is a subject where everyone...

Yesterday we said goodbye to Regal and Royale, better known as Regis. He was young, only sixteen years old, which makes his entire story...

Things have been pretty routine around the farm for the last few days with a couple of exceptions, and they both happened on the same...

After having incredibly dry weather for most of April the last two days have certainly made up for that! As many of you have probably...

Today was a day full of farm romance and marriage building exercises. I finally identified the source of our leak thanks to the pooling...

I realized today it has been almost a week since I updated my blog so this post got a bit long. Nothing out of the ordinary has been...

Spring is just around the corner! Our grass is starting to green back up thanks to the 10 days of nice weather in the 60’s and 70’s. I...

but truly sometimes I amaze even myself. You’ve seen many pictures of Sparky the donkey scattered throughout my blog. Sparky is an...