Sausage machines and solar dreams Boxes of cheeping cheepers Here at BOTL Farm, it’s baby chick time! Our chick brooder (farmer jargon for ‘a place to keep baby birds at their ideal temperature’) is one of our sweet 1970s repurposed R... Chickens Comercial kitchen Online Store Solar sausage
BYOC, BYOB, and LYOB Hot hot goats Here at BOTL Farm, it's HOT! Each species on our farm deals with heat in different ways, but the extreme heat this year has given ample opportunity to see how heat-tolerant our goats are... Chickens Eggs Goats NCO
Animal dumps and cute piglets PSA: don’t dump animals you find on the road at a farm Here at BOTL Farm, we run a pretty tight ship around biosecurity. Some might say we’re a little fussy, others say “what is biosecurity?” Cheers. ... Chickens Pigs livestock feed piglets
Not the typical New Year’s junk mail Solo farming Here at BOTL Farm, we have one full-time farmer and one part-time farmer. We are good at vastly different things (e.g. obscure mathematical theories vs actually building/repairing things)... Chickens Dogs Farm dog babies goat skin hemp bedding home delivery sheep skin
Moms, meats, and monsters Piglets are the way of the world Here at BOTL Farm, we sell things like bacon. Lots of people buy bacon and so we must make more bacon. Good news, one of our sows (pig-moms) farrowed (gave birth to pi... Chickens Pigs bologna piglets
Reduce, reuse, and recycle Sheep don’t climb Here at BOTL Farm, it’s still baby season. We had all our goat kids in February and March is for lambs. The first ewe (sheep-mom) to give birth went early in March and then we didn't... Chickens Goats Sheep babies goat skin sheep skin
A useful primer on getting bodily fluids from a 700 lb pig and more Getting bodily fluids from a 700 lb pig Here at BOTL Farm, we've done lots of weird medical stuff to our animals over the years (when necessary, not recreationally). Right now, we're working closely w... Animal Welfair Approved Breeding Chickens Cold Pigs
Baby chicks and returning egg cartons Winter is the new spring: chicks are ordered Here at BOTL Farm, we propose that winter is the new spring. Most people think spring is the time to get chicks, probably because that's when farm stores h... Chickens babies
A trip to VT Driving to Vermont to pick up sheep and goat hides #farmervacation Here at BOTL Farm, we’re committed to nose-to-tail use of the animals we slaughter. That means finding a use for all those parts, inc... Chickens Pork hawk hemp bedding sheep skin
Busted tires Coming soon: baby chicks As discussed back in our October update, we were contemplating what to do with our laying hen flock. Our official decision is to keep the size of the flock the same for next s... Chickens hemp bedding new country oranics stew hens
Winter is coming We’re famous — local newspaper article We get approached with interview requests often enough that we’ve made our own custom interview-request intake form. We use this form to help us track and evalua... Chickens Planing Winter new country oranics
Spring means baby animal season Spring means baby animal season This winter flew by before we knew it. From a unseasonably mild December to the long hard freeze that I guess was called the month of January, to early grass growth in ... Chickens Eggs Farm Store Pigs lamb new country oranics