Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
Spring means renewal and at the Goat Lady Dairy in Grays Chapel, North Carolina it means new kids. For the folks at the dairy, it means those baby goats have to be fed twice a day. Makes for an interesting time in the nursery.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
We were checking our back pasture Sunday before opening it up for the cows, when I ran across this skull of a young buck. He could have died of natural causes, but most likely he was wounded and died later. We have had a problem with poachers for the last couple of years, both in the daytime and at night. I’ve been awakened at 2AM by someone shooting towards my barn from in front of my house. Seems like we don’t really have a lot of hunters in my area, but rather a bunch of people that like to shoot at deer. There is a difference. What a waste.
(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
Portrait of a neighborhood “Dominecker” rooster, Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photograph copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)
I don’t often shoot a lot of wild-life and birds, however, a small Titmouse in the buttterfly bush outside of our den window during last weekend’s snow caught my attention. Our cats were interested as well, but no blood was spilled.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A bird’s eye view at feeding time in our barnyard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My wife often picks up apples in the evenings. She feeds the rejects to the cows, and they certainly appreciate her efforts. In fact they appreciate them so much, they often get a little overly up close in their attempts to get to them.
When I was very young, my grandfather raised all sorts of farm animals; cattle, mules and horses, hogs, and various types of poultry. My father went into the dairy business, so we dropped the other animals and concentrated on cows for my teenage years and then into my adult life (and we still have around thirty head). Last year my wife and sons convinced me to buy some poultry, so we now have about twenty five chickens and guinea fowl. We free range them in our barnyard and garden during the day and put them up in a coop at night. Surprisingly social, the members of our small flock fascinate me. Though I am not so sure where poultry ranks on the intelligence scale, they are interesting to watch. Each bird is an individual with its own personality. And, we get close to five dozen fresh eggs a week. More if we can find the guinea nests.
(photographs copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
We have several guinea fowl on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. Most are hens, but we do have two males. For the past couple of days, they have decided to see who is the most dominant, and have spent the afternoons and evenings chasing each other around the property and sparring. In the image above, our pearl male streaks across the yard after his rival.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Portrait study of a ram from a neighbor’s farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A two day old baby calf flexes it’s muscles in our farm pasture in Randolph County, North Carolina.
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