Animals – Page 56 – Dan Routh Photography

Guinea in the Grass

A guinea fowl wanders through the grass on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

They’re Kidding Again

A stop by Goat Lady Dairy this afternoon for a kid check (I think they are up to 27 or so) produced these images of a newborn.

For my friends at Goat Lady Dairy here in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, March is a very busy month. The goat moms are starting to have their kids, and because they were all bred at about the same time, they are all delivering at about the same time. Lee Tate of Goat Lady handles most of the kidding supervision, so that means she is going to have to watch about 27 does deliver around 50 or more kids in the next month at any time day or night, and then take over the young goats’ feeding. Fortunately she does have some volunteer help such as Alice Jenkins, who was at the dairy today helping with the feeding chores.

Alice feeds the new kids born today.

Sheep Barn

Animals, Farm, Sheep

Barn images from Rising Meadow Farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Livestock

Animals, Farm

Most of the farms on Grays Chapel, North Carolina raise what you would consider traditional livestock, but some of my neighbors keep some more exotic animals. For those of you who followed my buffalo post last fall, below is the fellow we wrangled, content in his home pasture.

Roosting Time

Animals, Bird

Black buzzards roost on an old barn roof near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Happy Thanksgiving

Animals, Turkey

As we pause to give thanks for all of our blessings, let us hope that the year to come will be better for all of us, especially for those less fortunate.

Agriculture

Agriculture, Animals, Farm

In continuing with where I’ve been, I grew up on a dairy farm. My Dad taught school and farmed for 18 years. After we sold the dairy cows, we switched to raising beef cattle, which we still do today. I live in my great-grandfather’s farm house which was built around 1878 on the 150 acre family farm. I enjoy shooting agriculture; I guess it’s in my blood.

For about 15 years, I worked on contract for a large agrichemical company. I crawled through corn fields in the midwest, walked through wheat in the Dakotas, picked cotton and waded through rice fields in the South. Also had the opportunity to ride and operate some really big equipment.