Chase's Organic Dairy - Farm Blog

The cows aren’t overly impressed with yesterday’s storm, which left 6 inches of the white stuff at the official weather station in Caribou, breaking a record. There won’t be much grazing happening today, but there is plenty to eat in the hay rings and they will get exercise and fresh air.
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Ready or not, a little snow arrived today.  The cows are still outside for the most part, and we hope to be able to keep them going out for a while longer.  They are feeding mostly from alfalfa haylage in rings in the pasture, but there are still some die-hard grazers who are still feeding [...]

After 19 years of heavy work, the metal in our old gutter chain was wearing dangerously thin in places.  We ordered a new one from Ingraham Equipment over the summer and it recently arrived.   We installed it during harvest break, when our nephews Chase and Hunter were available to help.   It took 3 hours from [...]

I was headed to the barn with coffee this afternoon and took a moment to snap a pic of our haylage bales.   What a lot of work that group of bales represents!   They are stacked two high.   We are feeding them in hay rings outside for now.  When its gets colder, we’ll unroll them in [...]

I was exploring my daughter’s MLTI* Macbook tonight and enjoyed playing around with Google Earth. Neat program! I entered an address and “flew” right to an aerial view of our farm. (See screenshot, below.) It’s pretty neat to be able to see our place from above. I wish [...]

Today is Saturday and it’s my Dad’s day off from the barn, so I had some time to catch up on our calf cards.  Below are some examples of the calf cards I make for the barn.  They contain information about the calves so we don’t have to go look them up in the “big [...]

The cool days of fall are upon us and the grass is still growing, but very slowly.  We recently set out some hay rings and are starting to feed some haylage to make sure the cows have enough to eat.   We love opening the bales and smelling the sweet scent of good haylage.  The [...]

As much as we hate to admit it… it’s time to start thinking about winter.  While we are enjoying the fall weather and the cows are enjoying fall pastures, we are working to gather firewood to heat our houses with this winter.  We usually cut up trees that have blown down and also cut some [...]