Faith, Hope, & Love Farm

07/16/2025

Daylily genetics are funny, you never know what you'll get. It's not like color genetics in animals where you can likely have an idea before you make a cross.

Second year seedling on the right, Pollen parent (sire for my animal followers) on the top left, thank you to my good friend Corey Michael Hayes for letting me collect and freeze the pollen, and the pod parent (dam) is on the bottom left.

This seedling has survived in some pretty tough growing conditions. I'll be digging it up and moving it to a better location for further evaluation.

07/16/2025

It's Wacky Wednesday!
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At the County Fair I saw...

07/16/2025

Moved some of the ewes into some fresh pasture on Sunday. They hadn't been in there in about a month so it's grown back up nicely.

Tons of variety in it, it's like an all you can eat massive salad bar buffet. Different grasses, red clover, white cover, vetch, birdsfoot trefoil, comfrey, dock, plantain, some weeds like burdock and small sumac saplings.

Love being able to selectively graze so they don't take one section all the way down to the ground.

07/14/2025

Bit of a long read, but well worth it.

Doing things the right way and still ending up harassed.

https://www.americaunwon.com/p/while-big-ag-seeks-amnesty-for-the?fbclid=IwY2xjawLhq7VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnxTGi9c2GLeATmaDEfZYSku3dk8PQCMxmIqDqYJ-tuI9aOoAKU0h5zQkKgW_aem_RqxY9npBkDuv0I3wO5C7Zw

Nevada rancher Hank Vogler says bureaucrats have made the H-2A farmworker program a "living hell."

07/14/2025

Found this little guy in with some of my show stuff from last year.

I was sitting in the sheep barn at the beginning of fair week last year when a family I've known for a long time came up with their youngest son. They are Angus beef cattle exhibitors, and the little guy had gotten some farm charms for his Crocs and told his parents they had to go right up to the sheep barn to bring me this one for mine.

But the sheep (ie the North Country Cheviots) kept trying to eat it out of my Crocs so I had to put it away. And of course over the course of time I had forgotten about it until I found it again. So back on my Crocs it is, and we shall see if they try to eat it again.

Maybe even this year I can convince him to help us show some sheep.

07/13/2025

📣Public service announcement 📢

When it's a hot day and you're shearing a sheep, don't put your bottle of water next to your bottle of shear oil. Or, just pay attention to what bottle you're grabbing.

Let's, just say I should be pretty regular for a few days now. Oops.

07/13/2025

Mowing grass at work on Friday and wishing I could just put a fence around it. The sheep would love all that white cover and birdsfoot trefoil.

07/13/2025

Some of the daylilies blooming around the farm right now.

07/12/2025

This is a skill I highly suggest anyone with livestock of any type learns to do.



Whether it is for IV medication (antibiotics or analgesics like I'm using here), fluid administration, or drawing blood. It's much easier to learn to do it yourself if you have a veterinarian willing to teach you and to leave you with the medications you might need.

Sometimes in the case of an emergency that vet could be hours away, but your animal needs treatment ASAP. Or maybe you need to draw blood for health screening or pregnancy testing, if you do it yourself you don't need to pay the vet call.

Once you learn how to find the jugular vein it is a pretty easy process to do on your own. Ask your vet to teach you, worst they can do is say no.

I'll try to get a video of her next dose so everyone can see how it works.

07/12/2025

It might not be as fancy as the nice stuff that Metal & Manna makes, but for a quick weld to fix the bottom bar on the round pen gate I'll take it. It doesn't need to be fancy and pretty in order to hold.

And I'll guarantee it had more pe*******on than the pretty stock weld was that the steer broke .