Friday, March 13, 2009


This is one of our daughters and our LBD (little brown dog). She is a registered Boykin Spaniel and she is due to have puppies on April 27th! We got her whelping box inside today and she will start to come in and get used to being in it so when her time comes she will be comfortable there. Dogs take about nine weeks compared to our nine months so in doggy time she is about at the end of her first trimester. All the stuff we've read say that it is 67 days from conception to puppies... not 66 or 68, 67! We'll see. We had her bred by artificial insemination last year and it didn't work. She went through a false pregnancy but no puppies. This time we did it the old fashioned way with a younger male and are hopeful for better results. This male (Beau) has already fathered two litters...both of which yeilded 11 puppies! Stay tuned.

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Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).