Barn is pretty noisy isn’t it! Same of the animals move outside for the winter some don’t. Right now the turkeys are inside only since they can fly way too well. That makes them pretty hard to pen up.

The goat pen for the dairy goats is part of the barn so they’ll never go to for. The boys and the does that aren’t milking will go out to pasture over the summer though. It’ll be a bit quieter, but living on a barn always has some animal noise.

You should hear the geese. They are in the garden at the moment up by the house, and any time anyone goes outside they honk and screetch very very loudly. I’ll try and put up some audio at some point. They are the loudest animal. Our neighbors over 1000 feet away can hear them very well. Out on walks I’ve heard them a 1/2 mile away, when the wind blows right. That’s part of living out in the country.

I prefer to buy a raw fleece, wash it myself and then ship it to a processor. Zeilinger?s is good according to some of my other guild members. I’ve used Ohio Valley, Wooly Knob and most recently Stonehedge.

BTW, I don’t know if you saw my comments about Alden Amos in your soap blog, but he ventures quite often into the land of opinion and treats it like fact ;)

Thanks for all of the feedback — it looks like you guys love the barncast and don’t like to choose your favorite part!

I have to plead cluelessness about the firm and salty comments. I was honestly talking about sushi! *blush*

Dawn, that’s funny that you thought it was pre-recorded. I thought it would be too loud! We keep hearing that everyone tries to eliminate background noise from the podcasts, and here we are adding it on purpose!

Karen, I got the Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, and some lettuce planted. I’ll probably be talking more about the garden at my craft blog.

Ellen, it sounds like you might have sheep! Do tell! I got the wool processed at Zeilinger’s and they did an excellent job! I have two Corriedale ewes, both of which are extremely pregnant right now.

Dognutmom, I’m glad you found our podcast! Thanks for the topic ideas. I am sure we will talk about them in the coming weeks, because it is almost the time of year for the sheep, some of the poultry to move outside!

If this shows up twice … sorry! Having some technical difficulties :-)

Anyway … discovered the podcast a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed it. I like all parts of it, but I guess if I had to vote, I would vote for the farm parts.

You asked what we would like to hear about … you mentionned on this podcast that chores right now take about 1/2 hour each in the morning and in the night. How will that change as the seasons change? I would imagine that gardening will start to take up some time,but will other things lessen?

Also … loved the barncast … being a city girl (originally Toronto), the barn sounded noisy!! I think some people think of the “quiet” country or farm life .. doesn’t sound like it! LOL Do all the animals live inside the barn right now? Will they eventually go and live part of the year outside?

Looking forward to the next podcast!

Helen
Transplanted Canadian … from Toronto, now in SE PA

Where did you have your wool processed at? And what breed/cross are your sheep?

Hey Dawn, your prize should be on it’s way tomorrow or Wednesday. :)

Hey Karen! I’m glad you like all the sections. :) When I left Fargo the snow on the ground disappeared pretty soon there after. When I got down to the Twin cities even more snow showed up, except twice as much. =) I’m looking forward to the growing season too. :)

I can’t wait until the weather warms up and we get to hear about Misty’s veggies and such. Yum, yum.

-Karen

Yay for Ezra! I was the one that suggested it by the way.

I have to say that I too dislike the current poll. I want to vote for both the Farm part and the Life part. I could always vote for one at home and one at work ;o)

Gonzaga really put hoosiers into a bitbull bite didn’t they :P

nanananana :)

Heh, this poll is there because I couldn’t find an easy way to make the old poll go away without removing the code from the page, so the best option seemed to make a new poll, and this is the best I could up with. =) I want to make it come and go as need be, and not have a poll around all the time. Plus well the archive link is broken, and I don’t like wp-poll’s fix atm. =)

I’m glad you like the barncast!

I don’t like this new poll :(

I like the whole podcast although the farm life is my favourite. My vote would have been the farm & geek for favorite’s.

Glad the well was easy to fix although the water in the face part was funny as hell :), been there got the wet t-shirt.

I hate the border wannabee cops. Worse then wannabee security guards/cops. Atleast you didn’t get stripped searched and cavity probed like I usually get. Ef’n American cops. They suck $#@!@.

Misty, firm and salty? Sure this was sardines? LOL I can picture you trying not to bust out laughing when you realized what you said and Andrew trying to be the professional podcaster….

Can’t wait to see the baby lambs…..