tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43842932178637437772024-02-19T20:10:52.262-05:00Autumn Olive FarmsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-73779160822169701112012-01-04T20:58:00.002-05:002013-09-19T09:39:07.063-04:00<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;">For the latest news from Autumn Olive Farms check out the news page on our website at <a href="http://www.autumnolivefarms.com/boer-bok-meat/">autumnolivefarms.com</a></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-53214976113899078372011-10-29T21:01:00.000-04:002011-10-29T21:01:08.689-04:00A different kind of kid on the playground...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0CQtbnEeyTr4RB3SIWFd5jjKqY8FmPu8nTYiyfVCP3Oq2OoxmwXtVubC5DY-hxt0bWON-aDgKxYyu3jx1OLCH0EO9cj4J7j8t1dYFWPDleyCFw8bV1lekYh3a2rxC-P5kV8SpvGn9uxY/s1600/067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0CQtbnEeyTr4RB3SIWFd5jjKqY8FmPu8nTYiyfVCP3Oq2OoxmwXtVubC5DY-hxt0bWON-aDgKxYyu3jx1OLCH0EO9cj4J7j8t1dYFWPDleyCFw8bV1lekYh3a2rxC-P5kV8SpvGn9uxY/s400/067.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We were invited by Dr. Mindy Garber, principal at Hugh K. Cassell Elementary School, to bring our goats to the playground to entertain the school kids yesterday. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was an honor to finally get to meet Joel Salatin when he came by to visit our display. It was even more exciting to hear him tell us that our farm model is fantastic and that he has never seen one like it! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The goats enjoyed being fed branches of autumn olive, honeysuckle, blue weed and privet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Usually you get a cone with feed in it. Not our goats! It was a great way to teach kids and adults about the goats natural diet. It also allowed for an up close view to see how their prehensile mouths work to pluck every leaf off of a branch! </span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then it occurred to Clay why they were behaving that way. Prior to checking the does we checked the bucks and noticed that Romeo needed his hooves trimmed. Needless to say that when you trim his hooves you have to touch him and when you touch him his "essence" gets on you. Yes, the girls smelled the scent of Romeo. "O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?" is what they were saying. Not to worry, they will get to see him and our other buck, The Hardy Boy in about a month. That will be too much to blog about! </span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Introducing the newest arrivals to our farm. These two gorgeous girls arrived this morning. They hopefully will be giving us some Thanksgiving entertainment for our guests in the way of piglets. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">With the very real threat of that being the outcome for the goats in this sale I am afraid we did have both a smart price and a also a "heart" price. Unfortunately for us the sale price was a lot closer to the heart price so we REALLY need to find at least one great forage job for them to earn some income to make it up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is true that most of our stock will one day die to become a very healthy meat product for informed consumers. Until that final moment though, all the Autumn Olive Farms goat's lives will be good days and filled with all the fascinating antics and details that make the goat uniquely what it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> They will be available for you to enjoy at <a href="http://www.localchops.com/">The Local Chop and Grill House </a>and <a href="http://joshuawilton.com/?page_id=5">The Joshua Wilton House</a> in Harrisonburg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will also be able to enjoy them at <a href="http://www.mastapas.com/about/">MAS Tapas</a> in Charlottesville. We will keep you posted on the other places to find them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She is mostly Komondor with some Great Pyrenees mixed in. It is hard to tell from this picture, but Bea has what Clay calls "country dreadlocks." This is what the Komodors fur is supposed to do. The problem is that she is like a walking biohazard with those "stinking dreads." It is quite an unpleasant experience to ride in the car with her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">First she had a course cut and then a peppermint bath and massage and then her final touches. She was then treated to a VIP golf cart ride back to her pasture. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see she is very pleased with my work! I think it is a good look for her. She was going for a semi - poodle look with out the curls. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-58522990481128001802011-05-16T22:09:00.002-04:002011-05-16T22:47:16.838-04:00The fabulous C&O...<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">We celebrated Mother's Day with a fabulous meal at the <a href="http://www.candorestaurant.com/">C&O Restaurant</a>. We went for a late dinner Saturday night after moving animals all day. What a wonderful treat it was to have family and friends share the rewards of our hard work! </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The entree we enjoyed was Vindaloo. It is an Indian Curry dish using our Boer Bok meat. I will have to confess that I am not one that likes curry, but I wanted to eat our Boer Bok goat meat. Oh My, it was sooo delicious!! What I did not know is that there are different kinds of curry. Eric selected the perfect one to go with our Boer Bok! The entree also included grilled romaine with a raita sauce. Yes, I said grilled romaine. I had no idea that you could grill lettuce! It was incredible as well! I am so thankful that Clay has planted romaine in our organic garden. We are going to have fun with it. I also tried another new flavor which was fried yucca. It was a perfect complement to the Vindaloo!</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"> As we sat there enjoying this fabulous meal I thought back to last winter when we were wading in waist deep snow to get to our animals and feed a 900lb hay bale by hand. We did not have a tractor that winter. I remember wondering if all of this hard work was worth it. I will have to say as I sat there and enjoyed what Eric created out of our Boer Bok goat meat that YES it is worth it!! We also loved seeing a couple at another table obviously enjoying the Vindaloo! </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After we finished our meal we snuck down to the kitchen to give Chef Eric a big hug! We work well together! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We also had an Easter Egg hunt. The chickens even got in on the fun. They were wondering about those strange colored eggs though. It was funny to see them running all around and checking them out before the egg hunt started. They had a perplexing look on their faces!</span></span> <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The chickens are at it again. They have decided to abandon Doug's house and use the nesting boxes. It is a much better choice and one that Clay can feel good about since he spent the time to build them such a nice "complex." The problem is that we have 6 nest "units" available and 5 hens want to use the same one. Boy I thought it was loud before. I had to close the door to carry on a phone conversation due the the squawking that was going on out there. You have never heard such fussing from a bunch of egg laying hens! It starts all over again once the egg is laid. For some reason they think the whole farm wants to know their business! Reminds me of some people I have known. </span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So much for having cute little fluffy Easter chicks for all of the company to see. I don't think they will have any "fluff" left by Easter. They are in that awkward "Tween" stage of their life right now. Fluff AND Feathers! </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-57110404134399407442011-04-17T16:02:00.000-04:002011-04-17T16:02:25.421-04:00Boer Bok Peninsula...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">So we had our goats on the lower part of the farm cleaning up around the creek and garden area. Did not know that they would be on a peninsula after the storms yesterday. We had over 2 1/2 inches of rain here on the farm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The other good news is that Clay and his dad worked hard to get this garden planted before the rain came. This garden is planted in 1700' feet of potatoes including Yukon Gold, German Butterball, Russian Banana Fingerling and Kennebec's! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The best news is that the water only came up literally to the very edge of the first row of potatoes! The soil is wonderful in this garden and full of earthworms so it drains very well. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">While he was rushing to get a boat ready to rescue them the lambs decided to swim for it and the ewes followed! None of us knew that sheep could swim! Amazingly all made it across except for his oldest ewe who was swept away. What an unexpected turn of events for just 2 1/2 inches of rain! </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-69467592541561731902011-04-15T17:16:00.003-04:002011-04-15T17:24:21.150-04:00A Sad day at Autumn Olive Farms...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">160 on right foraging at the Frontier Culture Museum.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our day ended on a very sad note yesterday. We had to put down the first doe that was born on our farm in NC. She would have been 6 years old next month. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a description of the magazine from the about us section of their website. </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Good Taste</b> is a glossy, highly visual, lifestyle magazine offering a fresh and entertaining look at food, wine, travel, luxury cars, art, interiors, books, etc.—in fact, all the good things that make life more interesting and exciting. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> The editorial staff of <b>Good Taste </b>subscribes to the concept of graphic journalism––writing that should look pleasing to read, even before you begin. The articles too are written by some of South Africa’s best writers, on topics that are aimed at the magazine’s affluent market. </i></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was reading along in the article and then I came to the 5th paragraph and was quite surprised! Click the link above to take a look at it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think it is a good article until you get to the last two paragraphs. This does not describe our Boer Bok and if it did they would be on a plate! </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-47527663568298466002011-03-27T12:52:00.002-04:002011-03-29T16:16:57.981-04:00Doug has been evicted!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doug in his "new house." </td></tr>
</tbody></table>Yep, it is official Doug has been evicted from his house by a broody hen named Louise. He has, I kid you not, moved into a cardboard box! He is a true homeless cat! I saw him sleeping in the box that is sitting on top of the nice nesting boxes Clay built for the hens. Yes, Clay built them very nice accommodations, but they prefer Doug's house. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Broody Louise"</td></tr>
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It all started when we noticed Doug sitting at the back door even after he had been fed one night. We looked and sure enough Louise was "spending the night" in his house. That only meant one thing and that is she is now officially "sitting on her nest." I reached in to take a look to see how many eggs she was sitting on and she struck lightening fast. Thank goodness she missed. It was pinch and twist kind of peck! Donating blood and flesh was not worth seeing how many eggs she was sitting on. I decided to just leave her alone. Clay moved Doug's house up on the back porch so she would be safer. She is a "sitting hen not duck" for a fox or mink. We have both here on our farm. We have to push her house against the sliding glass doors at night so nothing can get her. During the day we turn her around so she can get some sun and fresh air. Ridiculous, I know!<br />
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I noticed that she had some eggs that were rolling out from under her. Clay said she needed a rounded nest shaped like a bowl. She had chosen to make her nest in Doug's bed and it was flat from him sleeping on it. I decided I had better fix her a proper nest. I put on heavy leather gloves and my thick winter jacket. I lifted the roof off the house and there she was like a coiled up snake ready to strike at any minute. I reached down and grabbed her and tucked her under my arm, so I would have free hands to work. I gathered the eggs that had rolled out and were cold. There were about 8 of those. That left 11 that were still warm. I lined the house with fresh hay and made a bowl nest for her and put the 11 eggs in it. I put her down and she quickly accessed the new nest and thought it was acceptable and climbed on. She looked much more comfortable than before. I am sure it was hard to try and set on all of those eggs on a somewhat flat surface.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thelma caught in the act!</td></tr>
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I heard a racket out there one morning and discovered Thelma wanting to get on the nest. Louise said no way! What I did not realize is that Thelma had been going in there and laying her eggs. I donned on my protective gear and looked under Louise and now she is sitting on 19 eggs! Thelma lays her egg and then Louise rolls it up under herself.<br />
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By my calculations we should have chicks hatching at the end of the month. I will let you know how it goes. Last year a hawk flew into the pen and got the chicks! We will have to find a better place to keep them this year. One thing I have learned about chickens is that EVERYTHING wants to kill them! Doug hasn't so far, but that may change....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Golden Boy" - His job is making sure the eggs are fertile!</td></tr>
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Stay tuned. You never know what these hens will do next!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384293217863743777.post-58473217820210341792011-03-20T20:34:00.000-04:002011-03-20T20:34:27.282-04:00A Version of the Princess and The Pea...<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">This is Doug, our cat, and he has a problem. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is Thelma. She is one half of Doug's problem. I don't have a picture of the other half of Doug's problem. Her name is Louise and she pretty much looks like Thelma. </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Doug's problem all started when Thelma and Louise decided they wanted to fly out of their pen everyday and lay "their eggs" in a nest of "their choice." This is how they got their names "Thelma and Louise." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Unfortunately for Doug, they decided that his house was an nice place to lay their eggs. Doug's house is located right by our back porch. As you can see it is nothing fancy, but it is a nice place for him to sleep and get out of the weather.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">There are several problems with Thelma and Louise choosing Doug's house for their nest. One is that cats do not get up early. They like to sleep until mid morning. The hens pitch an absolute fit and wake up the whole farm until Doug leaves so they can lay their eggs. If they could talk it would go something like this "GET OUUUUUT, GET OUUUUUT!! My egg is coming and I HAVE TO COME IN! You know there is not room for the two of us and I would never lay my egg in the company of a cat! " Doug just looks at her and yawns and stretches his paws out and thinks about it. Meanwhile she is standing outside clucking and pitching a fit as LOUD as she can. Doug finally gives in and slowly climbs from his warm bed. He then sits at the back door and waits for his breakfast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">There are also good things about them choosing Doug's house to lay their eggs. It is a convenient location for us to collect eggs right outside the back door. The top of the house opens up and we can easily collect the eggs. This is much better than the blue barrel where the rest of the hens lay their eggs. Of course they made their nest in the back of the barrel where it is hard to reach. We have to climb half way in to reach the eggs or use a stick to roll them out. Yes, I have stuffed the back of the barrel with hay to force them to make their nest where we can reach it. Does not work! They get in there and mash down the hay and make a cozy nest in the BACK of the barrel! Not very convenient, but it is nice to know where their nest is. Another good thing about Doug's house is that if we forget to collect the eggs and it is cold, then Doug lays on them and keeps them warm, so they don't end up freezing. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This story is about one day Doug seemed so sad, very tired and out of sorts. What could be wrong with him? He had been fed, so I knew he wasn't hungry. He did not look sick. Just tired. Then it occurred to me...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnI8-OK7hjlibUZ8qP9FeSJzHbYjBiW7xmnETbh3mTGP58wl7rTYc2Gt51bup2OKzxJiLAUS5z3DYhlsUcrIvfzzjLtfqcChAlSZB9g4M8kPmN-j8Uuhd7d4Ui5I01nTeW7IS0xHy80d3x/s1600/017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnI8-OK7hjlibUZ8qP9FeSJzHbYjBiW7xmnETbh3mTGP58wl7rTYc2Gt51bup2OKzxJiLAUS5z3DYhlsUcrIvfzzjLtfqcChAlSZB9g4M8kPmN-j8Uuhd7d4Ui5I01nTeW7IS0xHy80d3x/s320/017.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had been really busy and had not collected the eggs in a few days. Okay, it was about 5 days! I went out to look and sure enough there was a nest of 10 eggs! Doug had no where to lie in his own house except on top of them. He did not mind sleeping on a couple, but this was really pushing it! No wonder he looked so tired. He had not had a good nights sleep for days! This gives new meaning to "The Princess and The Pea!" I collected the eggs and he went in his house and enjoyed a nice nap that afternoon and a good nights sleep that night. I do make sure to collect the eggs every day now. I wonder what is going to happen if Thelma or Louise decides to get broody? I don't think Doug would volunteer to be a "midwife." Thelma and Louise have burned that bridge with their antics every morning! </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0