SEARCH RESULTS Sort by : Article Name Oldest Article Newest Article Votes Rating  A Llama Named Michaela A Llama Named Michaela Natasha was a beautiful black, heavy wooled, one quarter Chilean, tufted eared llama that my daughter and son-in-law had given me for Mother's Day.  She was pregnant with her first cria and as I always spent a lot of time in the barn or pasture with the llamas I knew them pretty well as they knew me very well.  I noticed Natasha kicking at her stomach with her hind legs while she was eating.  They kick their undersides when flies are biting but this was... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (1)  Agricultural Drought Velma pulled the handle of the metal pitcher pump, up and down, a number of times. There was NO flooding of the clear water to gush forth. History already has a name for the year of 1953. They called it the agricultural drought. This is an apt description for what happened. Without warning there was no rainfall. One day followed another with only clear skies, or maybe a small high cloud above them to float along only to tease them with a promise. There was nothing more than that, and soon... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (0)  aromas of harvest Today was a day that did not allow for a moment to spare.  I had children from two families to care for and a plumber coming to fix a problem in our home. The children were really well behaved, keeping themselves occupied in various ways. As I was in the garage from time to time due to the door being open for the workers, I decided to take down some of the dried plants from last fall.  I had 2 bunches of basil and one bunch of mint. With the children occupied, I sliced open a... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (3)  Caught in a Cross Fire Caught in a Cross Fire Mike was hardly able to push the petals of the big tractors, but he wanted to work along with his Dad. Lee plowed with the tractor in the evenings, and up into the night, but pulled out of the fields, before it was too late, because he had a day job, and Mike had to get up to go to school the next morning. Wheatfields are plowed in the fall after the grain has been cut. The stubble of the cut wheat stalks at that time were turned completely under. After the wind of the... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (0)  Growing Wheat Grass Growing Wheatgrass:   At this time I have wheatgrass growing in a long trough on the center of the table. Everyone who comes through notices and comments on it.green beauty. One friend whose father was a wheat farmer with acres and acres growing comment that it would do better if I put it outside where it could get some cold weather No sooner said than done.  Now there are pots of it growing all about the patio and coming up the entrance to the back door. It is sort of like a... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (0)  How I Came to be Owned by Llamas I first fell in love with llamas in 1976, from a library book I was reading at the time. I remember it was a mystery but can't recall the title or name of the author. It took place in the Smokey Mountains of East Tennessee, the state of my birth. The description of the llama farm, the soft, quiet gentleness of the llamas and their ability to know when something was not right in their world made me a fan of llamas immediately. I started researching and found out right off the bat I couldn't... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (2)  Sally in Court Sally in Court If Lee knew about range wars, he had no knowledge of the battle in the farming region over Indian leases. And yet, the fighting was much on the same level, he would discover. When a farmer offered him an evening and night job of plowing the wheat fields, he took it. To turn the earth was seldom done on their lands in the virgin prairie, except for small garden areas. He didn't control the land here though, this was in the hands of the wheat farmers. Once again he became a hand,... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (0)  The Blackfaced Breed of Sheep By David Archibald, Awamoa, Otago. [Premium—Five Sovereigns.] There can be few more interesting subjects to breeders in Scotland than the breeding of the blackfaced sheep. These hardy animals have now gained a place and reputation for themselves that will entitle them to claim notice and attention. The breed may indeed be said to be at present the mainstay of Scottish sheep farming, as they were in the first instance largely the means of developing the pastoral resources of the country. In... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (0)  With Llamas, Spit Happens Oh yes, spit happens when you spend a lot of time with llamas. I've been spit upon when I unknowingly walked between two llamas who are having a spat with each other. There are the "alpha" male and female in every herd and if the underlings try to walk ahead of, or eat first, the alpha llama will certainly let the underling know "get back in line or else!" When a llama gets spit on a funny thing happens, the lower jaw drops and it stays that way for about fifteen minutes. It's so funny to watch... Category Agriculture Visitor Rating (1)