Say it ain't so!

Today we had the Christ Lutheran 3rd graders visit us again this year. Being the school that my cousins children attend, I wanted to be out on the Farm to say "hello" to them.

You all know that one of my favorite things to do is to introduce the children to our chickens. Little Ricky, our Mille Fleur D'Uccle rooster is always a huge favorite with everyone. As I hand him to waiting arms of the children..patiently waiting in line, I like to educate them a little about chickens and the parts of their body. Many times I will point to the chicken's comb and ask, "Does anyone one know what this part of it's body is called. I have gotten many responses...His Mohawk! His Crown, His Brush..just to name a few.
Today I was told by a cute young girl, "I don't know what it is called--but it sure looks like my grandpa's skin!"

Well, I'm off to lotion myself...I might remind Hector to do the same.
Glenda

Superstition Farm is having a little get together on Memorial Day; this Monday May 25th.

We're doing ONE tour at 9am and after the tour, there's gonna be a water-gun fight! BYOWG. (That's Bring Your Own Water Gun). Battle the Farmers or your little brother - it's a free-for-all. Let's start out in the hay maze and see what happens?

We're also going to have a little slip-n-slide action
set up using some of our feed tarps and some good ol' fashion aqua!

We'll celebrate Memorial Day and beat the heat all in the same day! Please try to attend. Regular tour admissions apply. Make plans for some of our home-made ice cream too! Oh goodness, we can hardly wait.

Yeah, baby chicks are coming soon!

We have some chickens sitting on eggs, we think now for about 20 days. Well....it takes only 21 days for a egg to hatch, so we should have some new baby chicks around the farm soon. Check back to see what happens!!!!

Our baby ducks are starting to grow up!

Superstition Farm got a video camera recently, and we thought we'd start out by filming our little, "baby" ducks running around, doing their thing. Well, I didn't realize, but these ducks are starting to look like real ducks. They sure grow up fast! They don't have feathers yet, but that's coming soon. We just know it.

Have you herd????

We've been talking about it...

We've been working on it....

Now we're gonna deliver! Superstition Farm in concert with Mooster's Moo-tique and Udder Delights collectively are offering a new dairy food club. Starting May 9th and continuing every other Saturday, we will be putting together pre-ordered packages of:

+Home-made Ice Cream
+Udder creamy Butter
+Farmer's Cheese from our cow's milk
+Free-range eggs from our hens
+and a Farm-fresh gallon of Milk

Together these items cost $26-$28 in our farm store. Pre-order and pre-pay and you'll get a couple advantages:

*You'll get all these items for only $22
*We'll make YOUR food on Friday night, you pick it up on Saturday morning!!! (Try to get that ANYWHERE else!)
*From time-to-time we'll offer ONLY to pre-paid customers a special, limited-edition, low-run product that change from month-to-month. How about a cherry mint ice cream? Mango butter? And there's more. These will only be offered to our loyal, pre-order customers. So be a part of the herd!

Get moo-ving, the hens only make so many eggs each day!

Visit http://www.superstitionfarmtours.com/organic.html to order.

A Sad day....

Our little lamb has been sick. We put him on a several medications and moved him to my back porch. This afternoon I checked on him and he was trembling and I felt something was going wrong. It’s something you learn being around animals. They cannot talk, but they have a way of communicating.

So, I picked him up and cradled him and gave him attention. He loved that. I took him inside my house and made a bed for him in my living room. I set up a fan to blow on him. I worried he was trembling from a fever. We hung out together for a few hours. Not knowing what else to do I got a cold washcloth and put it on his head – that’s what my mom did to me when I was a sick “kid.”

Later, he got up unexpectedly. I got down in his bedding and put him back down. He was weak. He stopped trembling, which made me nervous. I stroked him and talked to him for a little while. He then gave me a look I have seen many times in my life. He shook a little bit. I picked him up and rubbed his little body hard. I spoke loudly to him to try and shake him out of it.

Little Lambchop stopped breathing. I rubbed his little chest and even gave him little lamb CPR. His heart stopped. I couldn’t revive him.

Having all the animals we do, this kind of thing has played out hundreds of times on our farm over my lifetime. There have been many sad days here – but also many triumphs too. It is a part of the job that holds the highest satisfaction and accomplishment when things turn out and the deepest frustration and a jumble of emotions when things go bad.

Our little rescue baby premature runt of a lamb struck something in all of us. He was here for a short time, but loved by my family, the farm team and many families. You will outlive your animals. There is a mixture of emotions when one dies before it’s time. I hate to see animals in pain and suffering. You want them to be happy and fulfill their purpose on this world – whether it be eventually harvested or solely here to educate and petted by our guests.

I was certain Lambchop was going to be ok, that he was going to pull through – even while I was blowing air in his lungs. It wasn’t meant to be. You will be missed my wooly little friend.

Farmer Casey