4 Tin Fish Farm

Thank you to everybody that made suggestions on the blog and in person and on the phone and by email...etc.
We have chosen to go with 4 Tin Fish as our farm name. We are now accepting proofs for a farm logo.
For a quick farm update. We have a name for Ivy's girl.

INTRODUCING: 4 Tin Fish Farm Catarina

We also have added another farm member.

INTRODUCING: Little Island Farm Surfer Girl

I've become quite good (if I do say so myself) with making Chevre, actually it's Fromage Blanc. Chevre is the soft spreadable cheese you put on crackers that comes in log shape. Fromage Blanc is the same cheese, it's just not molded into log form, it's bag cheese (from cheesecloth bag). I'm going to attempt to make Feta over the weekend and maybe one other cheese that needs to age.

Here's a parting shot of the babies.

Random Update

• Alice had her stillborn Sunday night, it was awful and traumatizing and horrible. Will not scar anyone by going into details, if you're curious on how to deliver a dead baby or ever need information on how to do it, email me privately and I'll be glad to share. But I hope no one ever has to go through that.
• Alice is now looking much better, she is still picking at her grain but finishes her hay, she is starting to try and sneak out of her stall as soon as we open the door and make a dash for outside to get grass. She is also back to her loud mouth self.
• Babies are GROWING. Literally, I am not kidding, they grew overnight a few days ago. I fed them at night and went out the next morning to feed them and they were taller and MUCH wider than the night before, it was shocking.
• We can not keep up with egg demand but didn't want to have to get chicks and wait 5 months before eggs come, plus the minimum order from hatcheries are 25, we don't want THAT many chickens. So we called the vet that we got the chicks from last year and he said he had 5-6 laying hens that he'd be willing to part with (for a steal I might add). So we have to find some time this weekend to enlarge or build a new chicken coop and run to accommodate more birds.
• I think I blogged last summer how we hadn't heard coyotes here. I don't remember if I had changed that to we HAVE heard coyotes, not as close as Union Springs, but not too far away either, just up the ridge on the neighbour farmer's hay field. Last month we were driving down the road, maybe a mile from our house, and a coyote ran across the road in front of us in broad daylight. I just happened to have my camera and when I rolled down the window and whistled he stopped and looked back. He was a BIG boy. We never actually saw the coyotes in U.S., The ones in Berrien were puny and skinny and would just slink across the field.