Donker Farm

The sheep are out in the pasture grazing and they're getting a shearing this weekend! Exciting times out at Donker Farm !

Baby chicks arrived at the Post Office this morning! Donker Farm has new Buff orpingtons and Lakenvelders!

🙌🏼 Singing the highest of praises to Bill, Dianne, & Steve for their help with clearing away the 8 downed trees from last Tuesday’s storm (many not pictured). Thank you, all! That was quite a bit of work!

We also managed to patch up the many sections of damaged fencing.

A weasel living in the stonewall came out to help us towards the end. We’d thank them by name, too, but there’s a bit of a language barrier.

Tonight's thunderstorm brought down a massive old tree at Donker Farm , which quite miraculously fell, yet, missed a lot of critical things as it did so. A special thanks to Mark Barbour who cut a bunch of the mess, and particularly important, a path to the hen house!

These White ash trees keep giving us a run for our money out in the woods as they decline from Emerald Ash Borer and Ash Decline.
In this case we lost an Ash at Donker Farm that took out our sheep enclosure. Luckily no sheep made a break for it, the trail is cleared, and the metal fence was mangled back into service!

🌎 Happy Earth Day from the animals at Donker Farm! 🐑🪿🐓

The days are already getting longer enough for the Lakenvelders to start laying! The sun is returning, and this is one of the earliest signs on the farm! Go flock!