After attempting to get Pekin ducklings from 2 different hatcheries we bought 33 muscovy ducklings from down the road. June – Martha the jersey cow had Cloudy and we didn’t want him to be lonely in the barn so we contacted Porters Dairy in Chemainus and picked up Chance (Holstien x speckled park) and Meatball (Holstien x Charollais) so then we had Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. google aren’t supposed to go into heat until they are 90 kilos, apparently that is breed specific and as we have added Gloucester Old Spot to the genetics they are a little earlier, Taz the bottle lamb/sheep had a lamb (surprise!!) We started planting the garden row by row. Blanche the pig had 7 more piglets (surprise) pigs according to Dr.
My custom tanning sideline had a polar bear hide dropped off. May – The wool was all washed and bagged up and mailed off to Carstairs Alberta’s Custom Woolen Mill. On a less stressful note, the sheep were sheared and I started making cheese again. To add to the excitement both sides of the driveway were filled with our wrapped hay bales, not a singe mark on any of the plastic, thankfully. Kayla turned off the car, popped the hood and ran for a fire extinguisher, Britty and I ran for garden hoses and phones and we all managed to get the fire out just as the first fire truck showed up. One thing I will say for BC Ferries is that they train their employees very well for emergencies. Without any warning, the car that she had just bought in October burst into flames when she parked at the gate after coming home from work. To anyone who owns a kia please make sure your recalls are all up to date. March – Britty turned 25 and Michael 32!!! Darryl turned a small fifth wheel trailer into a seed propagating shed, which worked way better than our livingroom!!Īpril – Kayla’s 2013 Kia Sorrento caught on fire in the driveway.
Two of the ewes prolapsed in January so they are now lawn mowers for their fleeces and retired from lambing. Lambing was short and sweet with 14 live lambs out of 15. Once that side was fixed their freedom was once again gained by excavating the front line so we replaced all the posts there as well before they completely rototilled the 2 hay fields. Apparently pressure treated posts only last 10 years now and the one side of the 4 acre pig pen was just swinging in the breeze and not attached to the ground. Lastly Ginnie the pig had 13 piglets.įebruary – Hermoine the pig had 10 piglets and the rest of the gang left behind in the pig pen escaped to the top pasture. Everyone did great with an uneventful birth. Most importantly we got another grand baby – Morgan Cordelia Windsor was born January 30 to Michael and Emily. We used a star wars theme to name both the goats and lambs. The goats also kidded in January giving us 7 live out of 9 baby goats, it always surprises me how delicate they are compared to the lambs when they grow up to be so rough and tough. We bought a new to us milking machine that is much more reliable than the little vacuum pump system we were using. Calf names this year are weather as we seemed to be having a lot of it. January – Mabel and Juniper, our beef cows, each had babies, Mabel had Stormy at breakfast (8am) and Juniper (Mabel’s daughter) had Foggy at supper (5pm). What an amazing year it has been, with the extreme weather, tons of births including grandmonster #2, finished projects, and more covid rules/restrictions, there didn’t seem to be any spare minutes in the day. It’s that time again to sit down with the calendar and the day timer and review what all we accomplished in the year. Merry Christmas from the Windsor Farm for 2021
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