Whidbey Island Hobby Farm

The warmer temperatures have returned!  Yahoo.  We had our Thanksgiving gathering on Friday and the temperature rose to about 40 degrees F. ...

Nubian dairy goats need to be bred every year in order to have milk.  Our goats dry up (stop producing milk) mid to late November.  Nettle w...

With three inches of snow on the ground and daytime temperatures in the 20's, we spent the day doing chores inside getting ready for our...

Snow kept falling all day Yes, it has arrived, early this year with snow flurries yesterday morning.  24 degrees out with a full moon whe...

Well it sometimes seems like they are vegetarians!  Trying to control the grain loving rats living in our barn is a real chore.  I have been...

I am lost in the morning without a computer (I'm writing this at work and only have two minutes) as we have not had power for 36 hours n...

Today is Wednesday, now the fourth morning since we changed the clocks back.  How does it affect our farm animals?  Not at all as they are r...