Twisted H Farm

10/09/2026

Thankful for another year at Westview Elementary

09/13/2026

We absolutely love sharing our love of animals with our community

09/11/2026

My furry farm friends love coming to your events so keep us in mind when planning all your fall festivities 🎃🍁

08/15/2026

We love sharing our animals with all of you

08/13/2026

Just a breezy evening lounging around on their feed troughs

08/01/2026

🌿 A living fence is not instant or maintenance-free. Plant bare-root whips from late autumn to early spring while they are dormant. Space them roughly 30–60 cm apart; a staggered double row creates a thicker hedge.

🪵 You’ll need young flexible plants, sturdy wooden stakes, soft ties, a spade, mulch and pruning shears. Plant at the original soil depth, secure the stems and weave them gently without splitting the bark.

💧 Remove grass around the base, add mulch and water during dry periods—especially through the first few summers. Replace any plants that fail to establish.

✂️ Willow can be woven immediately and grows quickly, but may need trimming several times each summer. Hawthorn, hazel and hornbeam are normally grown for several years before being traditionally “laid” and woven between stakes.

🐄 A young living fence will not stop livestock immediately. Protect it with a temporary stock fence until the stems become established, woody and dense. Avoid major trimming during bird-nesting season when nests are active.

🌱 Willow suits moist ground; hawthorn forms a thorny, dense barrier; hazel is flexible; hornbeam makes a strong hedge; and young dogwood stems bend easily. Choose plants suited to your local soil, rainfall and climate.

07/28/2026

🦈 PHISH PHACT: Teeth Edition 🐐

Hello friends. It is me, Phish, your official Butterfly Valley Shark Week hostest with the mostest.

Today, I'm talking about one of the most obvious differences between sharks and goats:

Teeth.

Sharks are out here with a whole dramatic mouth situation. Rows of teeth. Replacement teeth. Teeth behind teeth. Teeth waiting for their moment like they are on standby for a Broadway production.

Very impressive. Very intimidating. Very Shark Week.

Goats, on the other hoof, are built a little differently.

Goats do not have upper front teeth. Instead, we have lower front incisors that press against a tough upper dental pad to grab and tear plants.

And then there is that weird empty-looking space between the front teeth and the back grinding teeth.

That gap has a name.

It is called the diastema.

And no, it is not a design flaw.

It is basically a built-in snack management system.

The diastema gives goats room to move food around with their tongue, sort out leaves from tougher stems, shift food back toward the molars for grinding, and even help reject things we should not swallow, like sharp twigs, rocks, or other suspicious pasture debris.

It also helps when goats chew cud, because ruminants like us swallow food, bring it back up later, and chew it again more thoroughly.

So while sharks have mouths full of teeth designed for their feeding strategies…

Goats have a mouth designed for grazing, browsing, sorting, grinding, and making very serious decisions about snacks.

Different mouths.
Different diets.
Different chaos.

Sharks may win for most teeth.

But goats win for the most complicated snack processing system.

Science has spoken. 🦈🐐🌿

07/26/2026

PDF
https://www.sheepandgoat.com/_files/ugd/aded98_5bcd1934ef02443ba7ad24d3bf2bcdab.pdf

JPG (on Flickr)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/baalands/52767014144/

INDEX
https://www.sheepandgoat.com/infographics

07/18/2026

07/13/2026

Thank you for having us. Your hospitality was second to none!!