Moose Manor Farms, LLC

08/01/2023

Check out this awesome sale by our friends and neighbors Glory Fields. Get yours!

07/28/2023

01/09/2023

A soft rubber capsule is mother nature’s incredible way of allowing foals to form fully functional hooves during gestation without causing injury to the mares birth canal or uterus. Rarely seen, Eponychium starts drying out soon after birth and has all but disappeared by the time the foal is 3 days old.

Baby horse hooves often look like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it's perfectly normal. Here's everything you need to know!

01/01/2023

Suzie stood quietly, contemplating the whole new year that stood before her.
It seemed huge and unknown, fresh and exciting.
She had big plans for this year, but she was having trouble deciding, should she tell her plans to the flock or hold them secretly in her heart? What if her plans never happened and her friends knew that she had failed?
The Feed Lady came near, and Suzie motioned her down to sheep level. She whispered her plans into the Feed Lady’s ear, who smiled and promised not to tell.
This made Suzie feel a whole lot better.

Happy 2023! Suzie and I hope it’s a year when all the dreams you hold in your heart come true.

12/29/2022

Great reminder! I stood out there for a while this afternoon looking everyone over and tomorrow I definitely need to get some of that special vitamin water out there to the fowl... 🦆

My yearly winter PSA to remind everyone that the week AFTER a big cold spell is when you need to watch everyone just as close (if not closer) as you did during it.

Most of us in the US just got out of a huge deep freeze. Whether it was -30F or 30, we all hit temps way below the “normal” our metabolisms were adjusted too and it was stressful…even more so for our animals outdoors. It’s easy to get back to the ”nice days” and forget all about the bad stuff but in that critical period 7-10 days after a stressful event like extreme cold is often when we will see animals get sick.

I usually keep the nutrition plane pretty high in that week after, pretty similar to what I do during the extreme cold but also looking more to ways I can up their vitamin and mineral internal toolkit to deal with issues. For my really old stock or those with known issues, I go ahead and give everyone a B injection, just as if they had been shipped or had actually been sick and that really seems to help them snap back fast. I’ve been known to buy a box of kale at the grocery store—not for me but as a vitamin packed treat for my herbivores. The chickens and pigs get a higher protein food for a bit with some fresh veggies thrown in too.

I also add electrolytes to water tanks and/or apple cider vinegar for another boost, especially for those animals I know didn’t drink a ton during the bad weather. My sheep always have noticably lower water intake during extreme cold so I pay extra attention to their hydration in the days after.

I also look to avoid new stress right after a rough weather event. If you can avoid shipping animals, weaning, big feed changes (like drying up a dairy animal), etc you give their bodies just a little extra break for recovery instead of piling it on. If you must restress them, then be sure to extra-baby them even more and make sure they recover fully. It’s the same as if you ran a marathon and spent a night in the cold woods without a sleeping bag in the same week—neither will “kill” you but if took a transatlantic flight and got no sleep for 3 days, odds are you are going to finally get run down enough to get sick of you don’t take extra care of yourself.

Last I make sure I spend lots of time just standing and observing…something that doesn’t happen a lot when it’s -40 and snowing. Prey animals like sheep, horses or goats are really good at hiding illness and the best way to catch it early is to just stand and watch and know what is normal/not normal for each animal. Sometimes your only sign something is wrong is someone not being as pushy at the feed trough or standing while cudding instead of lying in their favorite spot. But knowing your stock and acting immediately upon anything that seems off can save a lot of vet bills and death losses if you take time to pay attention.

And above all, use some of the nice weather to disperse treats and hugs and love. Storms run us all ragged and we need that recovery time to remember why we do the crazy things we do to keep everyone alive. ❤️

12/25/2022

saw this as an Ad on a video, best commercial I've seen all year!

12/24/2022

That rooster is for keepin'!

12/21/2022

Horse Friends... please read!

11/01/2022

These dolphins remind me of a bunch of 2-year old hefers crowdingn in to see a curiosity! Most likely they're thinking those squirrels will be a yummy snack.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/xxwiom/dolphins_observing_some_squirrels/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x

Posted in r/aww by u/Quietation • 90,559 points and 2,004 comments

10/12/2022

We recently had a wood stove insert put into the basement fireplace and the two young men that did the work gave me a big belly laugh:

The bend in our basement stairs was too tight to get the insert down on the dolly so I pointed out to them how to get around the house to the basement apartment entrance. As I was catching up to them I rounded the corner of the house and heard one say something about how cool it was that we had a baby hippopotamus.

I said, "That's a pig, but I like your story a lot better." I liked it so much, in fact, that I had a sign made for the pig yard and planted it right next to the wallow.

09/12/2022

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08/25/2022

Teach hard work, teach the reward of a good life, teach gratitude... I pray for that all the time.

“Why would anyone teach their kids violence? What is wrong with you?”
Last year I made a post about our local fair and how sad it was for all of the kids on the day of the sale. Someone left that comment and then proceeded to call us murderers, etc.
If you’ve ever been to the sale day, there are tears everywhere. My little man is wiping away the tears in this picture as he does his best to be brave to walk his lamb in to get sold. It’s the last time he’ll see her and no matter how many times you do this, it’s still hard.
Here’s the (kind of ugly) truth: we seem to live in a society that wants the end product but doesn’t want to see how it’s made.
We love to drink the milk but we’re outraged when we see a cow getting milked.
We love the steak but we believe “murdering” cows is evil.
We’ll scarf down a pound of bacon but we could never harm those cute little piggies.
We’ve become so removed from our actual food sources that when we see how it’s made, we are appalled.
The same people that are outraged by raising food are almost never the ones that are out feeding animals in the freezing temperatures or blazing heat.
They aren’t the ones out until midnight doing everything in their power to save a steer that bloated.
They aren’t the ones teaching their kids about the cycle of life while they’re secretly doing their best to hold back their own tears.
Since no one else wants to say it, I will; living comes at a cost. For us to live something else must die. It could be the eco systems and small animals displaced and killed from farming those vegan plates or the sacrifice of cattle, deer, elk, lambs and other meat that we consume.
It is our mission and duty to raise these animals to have the best life they can live while they’re here. It doesn’t make sale day any easier and it doesn’t make hauling steers to the processor each month fun but it’s necessary. We are grateful we can do the part that so many want to pretend doesn’t have to happen to put food on the table.
This isn’t “teaching our kids violence,” it’s teaching them the circle of life and the gratitude we should all have for every meal we eat.

08/02/2022

Guinea–chicken hybrids are an unusual phenomenon, as nature does not favor the cross, leading to health issues and early death.

07/28/2022

For about a century, the general understanding is that bees are the primary clover pollinator but none of those studies have said anything about the possibility of moth pollination. Moths are well-known as habitual pollinators of many other plants, but their role in clover pollination seems to have been overlooked.

Camera footage reveals that moths make roughly a third of the visits to red clover, highlighting the overlooked role of nighttime pollinators.

07/27/2022

The domestication of species has helped create our modern society. Domesticating plants and animals created a world with stable food production, which enabled the human population to boom worldwide. Domestication is not the same as taming an animal, which is when humans condition wild animals to live in captivity.

After dogs, livestock animals such as sheep, cows, and pigs are thought to have been some of the first animals to become domesticated by humans. This was around the same time that humanity shifted from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to an agricultural society.

This graphic shows a timeline of when 15 different animals became domesticated, based on archaeological findings.

07/18/2022

While summer is typically considered the season for the classic vegetable garden, the cooler temperatures of fall find far fewer pest and disease populations to challenge plants (and gardeners). In addition, many edible varieties that would never grow happily in warmer times thrive in cooler and even cold weather of the fall vegetable garden.

Most cool season crops will do fine even through frost and some freezing temperatures. But depending on what you grow and where you live, some level of protection may be necessary when temperatures drop below certain levels. Knowing what to plant in a fall vegetable garden will open your eyes to a whole new world and extend your gardening season for many weeks or longer.

You may be saying "bye bye" to your tomatoes, there's still harvesting that can be done in the fall and winter. Here's a list of the best plants to try for cooler weather growing.

06/05/2022

First rule of woodland survival: don't wear crocs

😂👉 https://www.goodshomedesign.com/camping-crocs/

05/03/2022

Oh no!

The fox apparently slipped into the flamingo habitat through a "softball-sized" hole, slaughtering more than two dozen birds.

03/30/2022

The magazine's go-to veterinarian offers up some plain, sensible advice about raising sheep.

03/28/2022

Small flock of PolyPay Sheep available (unregistered). 8 ewes with 8 lambs and two adult rams (18 total). Ewes are between 1 and 4 yrs old and are excellent mothers who lamb without assistance and feed twins easily. Current crop of lambs were born btwn 1/13 and 2/17. Adult Rams are 2-yrs old: 1 white (singleton), 1 Black Pied (triplet). Everyone is tagged/numbered and I have birth records for the last two years. 2,000 for all.

Original flock was imported from Canada 30+ years ago and kept as a closed flock of 200+ by my neighbor. He didn't manage breeding so most of the flock reverted to Finnsheep (which is the landrace in the 5 way cross to create Polypay). When he passed away we bought 20 and gradually culled out the oldest ewes. They have great worm resistance. We mostly get white or black lambs but occasionally we see badgerface too. The lambs take about 1 yr to grow to market weight and the meat is mild. Everyone follows the grain bucket so rounding them up is pretty easy.

03/28/2022

~Ancona hens at POL, (avail colors: black, chocolate, blue) laying white or blue eggs 40/ea, or 5 for 150, or 10 for 275
~2-yr old white Indian Runner trios 85/trio
~Chocolate Cayuga pair 45/pr
~Bantam Maran's x Seabright at POL 3 for $20 (PPU)

03/16/2022

Chicken Glamor Shots

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/alex-ten-napel-chickens/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

"Hens and roosters can’t be directed," says photographer Alex ten Napel. No matter the situation, the red-faced birds are wholly themselves, lurching from one spot to the next, burying themselves within masses of feathers, and spreading their wings as if they'll finally lift off the ground despite...

03/15/2022

03/08/2022

The dearth is over... we have table eggs available! $5/dozen

03/04/2022

03/01/2022

We're at the end of our lambing season and yesterday evening we had just one set of twins born who were rejected by their mom... looks like we'll have a week or so of midnight feedings ahead of us. Last year we had 5 bottle babies so I can't complain too much!

02/23/2022

Tom turkey's...this: every time I go out to feed. *smh*

02/12/2022

A large planting-eating dinosaur probably suffered from a respiratory illness that triggered a bone infection, a new study of the vertebrae in its neck suggests.

01/12/2022

You're welcome...

10/15/2021

Herman!!

10/14/2021

whoa!

10/12/2021

09/13/2021

A Dutch scientist has uncovered old recordings of a musk duck mimicking the phrase, "You bloody fool!" - learnt when it was raised by humans in an Australian bird park. The most interesting thing about the duck, nicknamed "Ripper", was not so much the message, but that he could imitate humans at all.

A Dutch scientist has uncovered old recordings of a musk duck mimicking the phrase, "You bloody fool!" - learnt when it was raised by humans in an Australian bird park.