Post by loriandersen on May 12, 2008 10:19:22 GMT -5
Just wanted to introduce myself, and give out a big thank you to all of you in advance, for all of the help and advice.
I am a 25 year old wife to Matt, we started dating in high school, then got married 4 years later. We have been married for 5 years now, and are living on his partents farm. His parents do not live at the farm (had to move to were the work was). They wanted family to live here and look after the place for them, but did not want to sell it, so here we are! We have been living here for five years now. The farm was alowed to break down and it was left to its own for at least 10- 20 year. When we first moved here we had big plans for the place, but we soon realized that we needed money and time to do anything. So we gave up on the farming idea. Hubby kept on working and we had three babies (all 15 months apart) It was when the kids started to eat alot of solid foods that I started to resurch healthy eating ideas. And the healthy eating plan that stuck out the most for me was the oldest one in the book. Make your own food, do it by hand, and eat it!
It is a lot of work, and the house is not always as clean as I would like it, but the kids spend most of their time outside with me and the animals.
I started out by planting our own garden, veggies and fruit. then last year we added some chickens, and we baught our first cows!
Getting to the point of buying a cow was a long process. I had been looking into getting a milk cow about a year before we got our Dexters, but the idea of milking a cow twice a day, bottle feeding a calf, and caring for three kids, not to mention what I would do with all of that milk, was too much for me to handle.
Then I googled cattle breeds ( we wanted to get a beef steer), found out there was duel purpose cattle breeds. Then I found out about once a day milking! We found a Dexter Breeder 10 minutes away, and now her I am milking!
I have never milked before, I used to help out at my friends dairy farm, but that doesnt count for nothing when your doing it by hand.
My two year old Dexter (Samantha) calved two weeks ago, and gave me a bull calf named T-Boy. I would like to do everything that I can to keep her away from grains, and antibiotics. So I am trying to grass feed her and the other cattle (I have one more two year old dexter who calved twelve hours after Samantha named Shyanne, she gave me a heifer calf, Ulla-Anne).
The rest you will find out about in my posts.
Hope to chat soon!
Lori
I am a 25 year old wife to Matt, we started dating in high school, then got married 4 years later. We have been married for 5 years now, and are living on his partents farm. His parents do not live at the farm (had to move to were the work was). They wanted family to live here and look after the place for them, but did not want to sell it, so here we are! We have been living here for five years now. The farm was alowed to break down and it was left to its own for at least 10- 20 year. When we first moved here we had big plans for the place, but we soon realized that we needed money and time to do anything. So we gave up on the farming idea. Hubby kept on working and we had three babies (all 15 months apart) It was when the kids started to eat alot of solid foods that I started to resurch healthy eating ideas. And the healthy eating plan that stuck out the most for me was the oldest one in the book. Make your own food, do it by hand, and eat it!
It is a lot of work, and the house is not always as clean as I would like it, but the kids spend most of their time outside with me and the animals.
I started out by planting our own garden, veggies and fruit. then last year we added some chickens, and we baught our first cows!
Getting to the point of buying a cow was a long process. I had been looking into getting a milk cow about a year before we got our Dexters, but the idea of milking a cow twice a day, bottle feeding a calf, and caring for three kids, not to mention what I would do with all of that milk, was too much for me to handle.
Then I googled cattle breeds ( we wanted to get a beef steer), found out there was duel purpose cattle breeds. Then I found out about once a day milking! We found a Dexter Breeder 10 minutes away, and now her I am milking!
I have never milked before, I used to help out at my friends dairy farm, but that doesnt count for nothing when your doing it by hand.
My two year old Dexter (Samantha) calved two weeks ago, and gave me a bull calf named T-Boy. I would like to do everything that I can to keep her away from grains, and antibiotics. So I am trying to grass feed her and the other cattle (I have one more two year old dexter who calved twelve hours after Samantha named Shyanne, she gave me a heifer calf, Ulla-Anne).
The rest you will find out about in my posts.
Hope to chat soon!
Lori