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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: February 2011
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. 2 Roos and a Bevy of Barred Rocks. We made it through the winter and only lost a couple of hens. Three of our 6 chicks that we hatched late September made it. We lost 1 of them to a predator, 1 to Luke our livestock guardian dog, and 1 just disappeared. Of the 3 survivors, 2 are pullets and 1 cockerel. They are about 5 months old now. Last fall, I wrote...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: August 2013
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, August 31, 2013. I feel like we've been on hiatus for the past year or so. Leaving the corporate world 2 years ago was my dream come true. I'd have time to build my dog training business, take care of the farm, get my house in order, and have time to spin my ever-growing supply of alpaca fleece. We are the only property on our road to have an ag exemption. And have alpaca ...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Back to Business
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, August 31, 2013. I feel like we've been on hiatus for the past year or so. Leaving the corporate world 2 years ago was my dream come true. I'd have time to build my dog training business, take care of the farm, get my house in order, and have time to spin my ever-growing supply of alpaca fleece. We are the only property on our road to have an ag exemption. And have alpaca ...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Why Buy Local Farm Eggs?
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Thursday, June 9, 2011. Why Buy Local Farm Eggs? Someone asked me the other day about the benefits of eating farm fresh, free range eggs. My first thought was to tell them that it’s like eating green beans from the garden as compared to ones with Libby on the label. But then, maybe not everyone gets that either. 8226; 1/3 less cholesterol. 8226; 1/4 less saturated fat. Last fall, so...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: September 2013
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Wednesday, September 18, 2013. A couple of years ago, we added some girls to our herd and last fall we decided it was time to try for some babies. Female alpacas carry their babies (crias) for an average of 355 days. We learned (too late) that fall babies are born earlier than spring babies, probably because of the heat. And, boy, did we have heat this summer. Star is a first time m...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: August 2012
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Monday, August 6, 2012. Surviving the Texas Summer. This spring, we bought some Black Copper Marans chicks. This breed of bird lays very dark brown, chocolate-colored eggs, which I thought would be a nice contrast to the pretty blue and green eggs that our Americaunas produce. We're all trying to stay cool here while the temperature soars with no end in sight in the forecast. Cali t...
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Fleece, Fur & Feathers: Setting up Shop
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Fleece, Fur and Feathers. Follow our adventure into farming featuring alpacas, Anatolian Shepherds, chickens and the llama. Saturday, October 5, 2013. My shop/office/workspace has been evolving for the past 3 years. It started as a hay barn with a good roof, but not much else. It's grown into a 24x24 building where I work on my fiber and manage the dog training business. We welcome visitors by appointment to the farm and the shop. We enjoy having home-schoolers and other small groups of kids and adul...
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews: September 2013
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews. Thursday, September 19, 2013. Charles R. Marshall reviews Darwin's Doubt: When Prior Belief Trumps Scholarship. Walcott quarry in the Burgess Shale, which beautifully preserves soft-bodied animals from shortly after the Cambrian explosion. CREDIT: MARK A. WILSON (DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, WOOSTER COLLEGE)/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. I like to read the arguments of those who hold fundamentally different views from my own in the hope of discovering weaknesses in my thinking. And so...
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews: Luskin’s Hopeless Monster
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews. Saturday, September 7, 2013. Luskin’s Hopeless Monster. Nicholas Matzke, PhD. I’m checking in from the airport on the way back from Evolution 2013. For me, highlights of the meeting included presenting my BioGeoBEARS R package. And some Ph.D. results. We have reputations to uphold! Part of the reason for harmony was that Jerry recently blogged. Such nice things about my review. Before the book came out, and that I made up quotes of Meyer. Are crucial reading if you did no...
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews: Meyer’s Mistake
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews. Saturday, September 7, 2013. Quite apart from any factual errors, about which I’m not at all qualified to judge, here is what seems to me to be Meyer’s fundamental logical error IMO:. Darwin’s Doubt, Chapter 2). He illustrates this by asking us to comparing this figure, which he says is what we do see:. With this (appallingly badly drawn) one:. Which he claims Darwin’s theory says we ought to see. Well, of course it does, Dr Meyer! You have just, in Chapter 2 of your fat ...
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