Birch Farm

10/24/2025

Big happenings at Birch Farm! This week we played host to the 2025 Canine Search & Recovery Inc. seminar. All week, teams of handlers and their dogs from all over the country have been on our property conducting training exercises. The trainers have hidden scent articles, dummies, and even took turns crouching in the brush themselves so the dogs could hunt for real people. We talked to handlers from Texas, Alabama, California, Wisconsin, Washington - even Alaska! It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and we were so proud to be able to provide a place for this group to train. The only unhappy people on the farm this week have been the barn cats - they promptly vacated the premises as soon as the dogs showed up each morning!!

03/06/2025

Mani/pedi day for the donkeys!

02/21/2025

Going to miss the time Kary and I spent together getting me dressed to go outside and feed.

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02/20/2025

Me and Gus have been training for this cold weather our whole lives.

02/02/2025

Two things you need to work on barbed wire fence. Clothes you don’t care about and the ability to ignore your own blood.

01/10/2025

I’m taking an informal poll today whether or not the cows are OK with me not feeding today because it’s cold and snowy outside. I’ll let you know their thoughts later.

01/07/2025

Sale day in OKC. This place is amazing. 660+ horse stalls. Never been to a sale where all of the cows are primped and blow dried. Not a speck of p**p around. Not sure these are my people!!

12/25/2024

Frank and the rest of the farm say Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

11/28/2024

It’s the little things about the farm. It’s knowing the bucket on the tractor is slightly bent so I have to put a smaller pin in there. It’s knowing which cows don’t want me near and which ones like kissed on the face. Which raccoons on the porch run away when you open the door and which ones would come in if I let them. Which skunk watches me put feed out and which one assumes firing position. There are the things I’m thankful for this year.

11/16/2024

The best part of watching calves eat is watching 16 of them eat in a 3 square foot area u nil the food is gone, moving 3 feet then starting again.

11/01/2024

We had some trick-or-treaters tonight!

10/30/2024

As I watch every bit of topsoil that’s not tied down head for Kansas, I’m hoping I’m getting dirt from Southern Oklahoma.