I’m a cold, hateful woman.
Or I sound like one in my last post that addressed giving baby chicks and bunnies to children for Easter. Lovely way to jazz up my morning with “Jennifer’s” comment: “Yes Teri, you do sound like a...
View ArticleThe Ag-Gag legislation.
Per the latest information I could find regarding the Ag Gag legislation: it sounded like it wouldn’t pass. So if anyone has an update, please share. The bill in question, dubbed the “ag gag” law by...
View ArticleHaven for Animals SHUT DOWN. (but…I get it)
Here we go again…..another rescue-type place being rescued. Haven for Animals (Sue Kelly) in Mayfield, NY was shut down. Rescue workers are evaluating over 300 animals including dogs, cats, horses,...
View ArticleSorry I haven’t returned calls or e-mails…
With the humidity and heat comes me shutting down. I clench my teeth a lot, wipe the sweat, and do what I do…care for the animals. I have a list of a dozen people I need to reply to…and if you’re...
View ArticleThe Coyotes. I say, ‘shoot them’.
Shoot them, I say. I’m serious. What’s the alternative? Catch them h-u-m-a-n-e-l-y and relocate them? And then they can breed and multiply and be someone else’s nuisance? As I see it, development...
View ArticleShe’ll tell me when it’s time.
When Stella came here through rescue five years ago, her teeth went in her nose if she closed her mouth, and her coat was so long she stepped on it. She had a limp, but it wasn’t until I scissored a...
View ArticleShearing Llamas 2012 has commenced!
Llamas need shearing once a year. The heat, and especially humidity, are much harder on them than the cold. There are all kinds of haircuts, some we do for showing, some we might shear less if we...
View ArticleLost Llamas
I saw this first thing this morning on Facebook via Steve Caporizzo/Pet Connection: To Steve C.: This is Karen Karlberg from West Becket (you know me from Berkshire Humane too), I need your help to...
View ArticleFireworks and neighbors. Not good.
10 pm Memorial Day I about fell off the couch when I heard what sounded like someone firing a shotgun out at the big barn. My dog, Quinn, faster than I could blink – crawled as far as he could under...
View ArticlePhew, I tried to be prepared, but so relieved the farm didn’t blow away! (and...
This morning, the news was saturated with warnings of the impending storms and possible tornadoes, so I finally went out and bought neon orange spray paint. And..an orange vest and orange tape. While...
View ArticleLockdown.
Today, when the wind came in to make the sub-zero temps painful, I started calling it The Beast. And tonight…both barns are in lockdown. I hate lockdown, and while the animals don’t like it either, I...
View ArticleJuJu Chicken.
For some reason, I need to do an 11 pm barn check every night. I don’t know why, nothing is ever amiss, I just can’t sleep without making sure all is well one more time before I close my eyes and...
View ArticleMothering and Farmering…
Daughter graduated from high school last weekend. Yes, I cried….new chapter for her. College of St. Rose is next. I’m so proud of her. I need to scan the picture from her yearbook. She listed one...
View ArticleCan’t make hay if the sun don’t shine – And other important things
Getting a little worrisome for those who make hay and those who feed hay. My wonderful hay guy brought me 50 bales yesterday (I usually get 200 at a time). This to hold me over until he can make...
View ArticleFarm. Why I look this way now.
I’ve always loved photographs of old farmers with their wrinkled and weathered faces. Those lines – those stories etched in…and the longer I am part of this farm, the more I understand. I passed a...
View ArticleSerge, the Circus Llama
I received a few messages with the link to the story about Serge, the Circus Llama, yesterday. All I needed to see was Drunken Teenagers Steal Circus Llama in France. I shook my head and didn’t watch...
View ArticleThat was one cold week
For those of us who spend a lot of time outside – last week with temps and wind chills hitting 20 below and colder – just plain sucked. Of utmost importance here, of course, was the care and comfort of...
View ArticleDo you have what it takes to be a hobby farmer?
Do you dream of having a farm? Do you have the time, the money, the stamina? You don’t get a day off during this weather, if anything you work outside longer and harder. Same thing if we have a...
View Articlestella.
Calling the vet that day and doing right by Stella added to an already difficult spring, and I don’t quite have the joie de vivre back yet. As my friend Debb said to me, Stella had become an...
View ArticleFarmlife Summer Recap
There are so many blogs out there now, that I know I’ve been lost within the masses. I don’t write about sex, politics, murder, meat consumption, and all the rest that that suck people in….frenzy-like...
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