by Member of the Flock | May 25, 2019 | Bed & Breakfast, Farm, Sheep, What's New |
Hello sheep fans! This is Brie, your faithful scribe from Whitefish Bay Farm. The old bearded guy up at the B&B keeps talking about sharing the flock news, but it seems to have been a long time since he has followed through on his promises. Therefore, at the...
by Dick | Aug 29, 2016 | Bed & Breakfast, Fiber Projects, What's New, Whitefish Bay Farm |
Summer is hanging on tendentiously at the farm. Some of the earlier days were just too hot and humid to risk field work. We managed to find pastures for the sheep in which they could either find shade and/or cooling breezes. For a time, we ran out of rain, to the...
by Dick | Feb 12, 2015 | Bed & Breakfast, What's New, Whitefish Bay Farm |
It has been a strange sort of winter for us so far. On a number of occasions it has been extremely cold, only to bounce into comfortable, moderate temperatures for short periods. Our snow fall totals have not been great. In fact we worry a bit about the overall lack...
by Dick | Jul 7, 2012 | Bed & Breakfast, Farm, General, Sheep, What's New, Whitefish Bay Farm |
As in so much of this country, the last couple of weeks here has been much warmer than normal. Luckily for us, living on a relatively narrow spit of land, which sticks out into a very large lake, usually has a moderating effect. We have moaned and groaned about the...
by Dick | May 5, 2012 | Bed & Breakfast, Fleeces & Wool, Sheep, What's New, Whitefish Bay Farm |
We have reached the time of year when life seems to accelerate at a sometimes maddening speed. As if to emphasize that point, yesterday we began the second round of weighing the lambs. First that means that the earliest lambs are now 60 days old. That also means that...
by Dick | Dec 16, 2011 | Bed & Breakfast, Sheep, What's New, Whitefish Bay Farm |
It has taken much longer than I ever expected to get a new posting to the Ewe Turn. I will shoulder some of the blame; the balance has been out of my control. Originally I had planned to write when the breeding time for the ewes was over and everyone, ewes and rams,...
