Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Farm visitor

I had an early morning encounter with a visitor over the weekend. I went outside about daylight to let the dogs out and there stood a large Coyote about 100 feet away right at the pear trees at the end of the garden. He (or she) looked at me...I looked at him(her) and it took off for the woods. We have heard them howling before but I have never seen one up this close before. I know that they know that we have chickens now... not a good thing. Our chickens are semi-free range in that they get out of the coop and wander around but only in a fenced area, so hopefully that will be sufficient to keep them safe.

The other concern is that when you have Coyotes you DO NOT have deer or turkey. And with Deer season rapidly approaching I hope the Coyotes will move on out of here.
Posted by Matthew at 2:23 PM

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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).