Thompson Farms LLC

03/23/2026

Surprise lambs in March. One of our rams travelled a half mile and through 3 fences to successfully breed 11 ewes this fall. He was only out a few hours while we were in town plus an hour or so it took us to catch him in the pasture. We spent the weekend rearranging paddocks and preparing for switching from bale grazing to fresh grass.

03/18/2026

01/21/2026

We went for a walk tonight. Good thing we did or we would have missed all the happenings outside.

11/25/2025

09/21/2025

If nothing else, I hope we get enough rain to make stepping in posts much easier. Every one must be pounded with a rubber mallet at this point.

09/05/2025

Results from our science project yesterday. Less than 50 eggs on the 6 ewes we ran. We will wait another month to see if counts go up to a number worth counting. Good test run. Don’t know how people do this for a living?!

09/04/2025

Centrifuge tube for 10 minutes @ 1,500 rpm.

09/04/2025

Almost ready for the centrifuge.

09/04/2025

Grass and creek water with the milk strained out.🤣

09/04/2025

Rainy day activities include f***l egg counts.

08/21/2025

A couple of nights ago I was hurrying to get bales lined up and then this happened.

08/13/2025

As the sun went down, I decided to play with the pellet mill.
Running sawdust through the die soon turned boring. So I broke out some wool.
As you can see, the mill will make wool pellets. Now, I just have to perfect feed rate to maintain pellet formation. It’s gotta be slow.