Heritage Turkeys have arrived!
Since we are on the kick of raising our own food anyways, why not raise turkeys too? We placed an order back in February from another local farm that keeps Narragansett and Blue Slate hens with a Narragansett tom. As…
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Sawyer Family Farm updates
Have you ever thought, “Rob and Anna always seem to be doing something new on the farm. How can I keep up with the changes?” Many people who are reading our posts are clicking in from the Facebook links. However,…
Devil’s cancer surgery
Warning: This post contains explicit details and graphic pictures of equine cancer surgery. Last summer, we got Vicki a Paint pony named Devil in Disguise (Devil). He has been absolutely fabulous with the kids and Anna uses him for teaching…
Farm girl
Today I am a stay at home Dad so Anna can chaperone a field trip with Vicki. You know you have farm kids when the 2 year old is quite happy helping with chores in a princess dress and then…
We have GAS
That’s right, we have Goat Addition Syndrome. You can read more about the affliction on Backyard Herds. In September 2011, we bought our first 2 goats. Right now we have 2 bucks, 6 does (3 in milk – 2 getting…
the teachings of schools
A little bit of enlightening truth from my first class (Critical Thinking) towards my Equine Sciences degree: In 1906, William Graham Sumner published a land-breaking study of the foundations of sociology and anthropology, Folkways, in which he documented the tendency…
Compassion
Last weekend, I wrote about the North Stonington 5k, but I left out the details of something that happened. During Vicki’s 1/4 mile race (which was 2 laps around a field), she ran by Madison. Madison is 5 and goes…
Rabbit pictures
We finally took some pictures of our rabbits! Since we currently have 27 kits (baby rabbits) and 13 adults for breeding stock, I only selected a few to put on the page. Don’t worry, we have 2 more rabbits due…
The bucks are here!
Ok, so the bucks actually got here 2 weeks ago, but we finally made some pictures this evening. We got one Oberhasli and one Lamancha (his ears are supposed to look like that). They are young, but will be ready to…
Rob is going back to school
I’ve got a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Engineering Management. Now it is time to get a degree I want to use. It is interesting how our decisions in life change. In about 7 years I will…