The menace is back…..
The pain is still pretty raw around here, i have lost 18 kits out of 29, which is hard enough. But when I woke up yesterday to find that my […]
Category Archives: Problems
My Screw Up
I failed at palpating. When I felt Sorceress two weeks ago, I thought there could have been something, but then bred her back to Buck. Last Thursday, Sorceress was gathering […]
New Stopgap Rabbit Houses
Well, the roof is added and the three sides of the hutch I don’t need to access is surround in a double thick layer of heavy-duty plastic painters tarp. (I […]
New Baby Guinea Pigs and Bunny Mortality
Well, i have some sad news. While i was away at the dog show, Syren had seven babies, and lost all but one by today. She is only 8 months […]
Lost Four Piggies?
So, today I lost four of the piggies from the growout pens. Two males, and two females. The last two nights have been brutally cold, 23 F and 32 F […]
Hopefully the Last Two
Well, I have been observing the 12 remaining baby pigs since I separated them a few hours ago. I added some collard greens into the pen, and if the pigs […]
Two More Lost
So, this morning, I pulled all babies out of the green box and out them out back. Maple leaves and pine straw blew in from somewhere else and these toxic […]
Genetic Defect and a Lost Pig
Guinea pigs can live a few days without food for a few days. It has been a few days since Cassius has given birth, and one of her babies was […]
Graphic Guinea Pigs
I spent the night last nigh resorting my guinea pigs. Since all of the females that I got from VA had their babies, it was time to rebreed. One of […]
Pumpkin Problems
So many weeds, squash bugs are out, vine borers are out… So, apparently, a weekly neem application isn’t enough. I spent over an hour and a half weeding one plot… […]
The loss of Oxy
Usually, when I lose a Guinea Pig, I understand why. Guinea Pig diagnostics are tough, they don’t show any sign of illness until they drop dead. Symptoms of upper respitory […]
Baby Pictures and an Evil Preditor
Well, I woke up Saturaday morning, and all of my breeding female quails in growout were missing. All that was left was feathers, and a single wing. Whatever ate them […]
The Odyssey for Sheep
Lately, all of my dog work has been agility with Clark (who is making some amazing progress), several hours of training blocks once or twice a week. But, we have […]
Soil Science: Citizen Science Series Week 1 & 2
For those of you who didn’t get to read, Duke Energies gave the Girl Scout Council a grant to build a rain garden at the Camp Mary Atkinson Leadership Center […]
Camp Acres – Week 13
After the incident of bunny heatstroke last week, baby bunny made it through a week of oppressive humidity and heat before succumbing. I was honestly crushed, since I was on […]
Bunny Heatstroke
Yesterday, I nearly had a 5 week old bunny die of heat stroke! I put them outside in the shade to graze on grass, and escape the hot. stale air […]
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