Every year, around the holidays, we wean our spring calves. What does weaning mean? Weaning is getting calves to stop drinking their mothers’ milk. We do this to give the expecting moms a well-deserved break before they calve again. We try to wean the calves as stress-free as possible for both the mothers and the […]
During all of our 15 years on the farm, we only ever had 3 sets of twins. Although they are pretty rare on beef farms, we see them quite a bit on dairy farms. I’m never going to forget the day when I walked into the barn and saw that my favourite cow had not […]
During the first few months of the year, we slaughter two animals and fill our meat orders. We picked up our boxes of meat last month. The first step to filling our meat orders is to raise a couple of animals to slaughter. The animals are usually 24 months old. All of our animals are […]