Switching hemispheres — what could go wrong?
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This weeks show is a change from the normal, we look back at the last 6 months and the changes on the farm.
I hope everyone enjoys the change this week. If not, we’ll be back to our normal shows next week.
Wow it’s been a week of change on the farm this week. Almost everyone speaks up on the podcast this week, including Cleo who bellows through the entire episode. =) Topics we cover:
Update:
Update 2: A section of the podcast was dropped because we forgot to ask permission before including it.
This weeks episode is a little different. Instead of going through the entire episode taking out 20 minutes worth of audio out I didn’t do any real editing at all. I just mixed in the audio clips and everything else is raw from the barn. In reality I ran out of time to edit it much, but I also thought it would be interesting to see what the feedback was like. If you like it, or if you don’t, let us know. Do you want more like this? More edited? Can you tell the difference? Is it too long?
There’s also a second audio file, I hope it doesn’t show up in the RSS feed. It’s a super compressed (11.025khz, mono, 16kbit/sec), aka low quality, for our listeners on dialup. It’s only 6.3megs vs 26megs for almost the entire hour long podcast. If you like it, or find it useful let us know!
This weeks show:
We spend 58 minutes talking about that!
Geek.Farm.Life Barncast 13 -- The rough cut -- LOW QUALITY VERSION [ 55:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadNumber 11 is up! Run time is closer to our goal of 30 mins. I was down to 32 minutes, but then I mixed in a 10 minute sound seeing tour while we mucked out a pen. Oh well, I hope everyone enjoys it. This weeks show:
Podcasts’s mentioned in this weeks show: Polarbear Podcast, Viva Podcast, DownShift Me, Rural Radio
I hope I didn’t miss anyone!
Update: Sorry anyone who downloaded the show Monday morning. I put the wrong URL for the show in so you got show #10. I’m sorry!!!
Barncast number 9 is up! “Podcasting from the barn at three-elms farm, with two tons of hay strapped to our asses…” Heh, nah.
This week is a fun show, it’s done in daylight! We talk about daylight savings time even more, man when are we going to ever get off this topic? Maybe that’s why this show weighs in at 42 minutes!!! Holly cow, err goat. We also talk about:
Comments are encouraged, and feel free to email us.
Enjoy!
A true barncast this week. Andrew speaks really fast, must be the extra caffeine in American softdrinks? Misty tries to talk over the animals.
This weeks topics:
Hopefully our last double ender for a while. This weeks episode looks at speakers, podpress, goat kids and how they are doing, cream, Misty’s poor car, my drive home, some crazy Canadian cuisine, and more! Bon app?it!
Here is episode 4, our first “double ender.” (That sounds so bad!)
Andrew is in Edmonton, Misty is minding the homefront in Indiana.
We talk about Gallery, our new webserver, a broken well pump, goat kids, city vs. country, an auto accident.
It should be transparent to everyone, but the mp3 files are now being hosted on libsyn, but nothing else. I tried using ourmedia but my files vanished. If anyone has any problems please let us know.
Hope you enjoy it!
Cream went into labor today while I was at the grocery store, somewhere between 11 and noon. I got back around a quarter after noon, and 3 kids had been born! While I dried them, sexed them, weighed them, and swabbed their belly buttons with iodine, she had a fourth!
Andrew tells me it’s really unusual for a dairy goat to have quadruplets, but Cream has done it for the second year in a row!
Here are the weights, and then the pictures.
Doe: 6 lb 12 oz
Buck: 8 lb 8 oz
Buck: 6 lb 10 oz
Buck: 10 lb 10 oz(!)
I weighed that second buck again, and got the same weight. He’s a little chunk!
They have all taken at least some colostrum. Three of them really latched on and got quite a bit, but one of them hasn’t quite figured it out yet, and only could manage a couple sips. The bottle was cooling down, so I will feed them some more during the evening chores.
They are under a heat lamp within sight of Cream, and she is staring at them and talking to them. She has not passed the afterbirth yet, but I went ahead and milked her. I got 1 lb 8 oz of colostrum in the first milking.
Edit to add: Cream has passed the afterbirth. I’ve fed the kids again, and they almost finished the entire bottle! The 10lb buck was the last one born and seems a little slower to catch on than the others. They have already been sucking my fingers like crazy, but he’s not too interested yet. He got a few more swallows and that’s it.
For more pics go to the gallery.
This hasn’t been a bad week. No goat kids or lambs yet, so it hasn’t been a ton of work. The weather was mild at the beginning of the week, but it’s gotten colder.
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