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	<title>Hope Refuge Farm &#124; Irish Dexter Cattle in the mountains of East Kentucky</title>
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		<title>Fall on the Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things have been a bit busy around here this fall.  Between everything going on &#38; experiencing some writer&#8217;s block&#8230;well, you can see I took a little break from the blogging.  So now I have so many pictures I want to share that I hope this doesn&#8217;t get toooo long!  Here&#8217;s what things are looking like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drying Herself Off?!  A Poopy Puzzle</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1633</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BoPeep gave me a bit of a scare a couple weeks ago.  Her milk production dropped drastically one day, and I was worried that maybe she had just decided to dry herself off since Hershey left.  But after doing some investigating, I came to a different conclusion.  Here&#8217;s what happened. We had previously moved the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s So Cheesy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, since weaning Hershey, BoPeep has been giving me about one &#38; a half gallons of milk every morning when I milk.  We use a good bit of milk for breakfast, drinking &#38; cooking&#8230;but not THAT much.  So what do we do with all that extra milk?  Well, that&#8217;s cheesy&#8230;I mean&#8230;easy!  We make cheese&#8230;and butter&#8230;and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Let-Down</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1578</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comings & Goings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been a noisy week on Hope Refuge Farm.  BoPeep did not like losing her young&#8217;un!  Not that I really enjoyed leaving mine behind either, but at least I didn&#8217;t scream my head off for 3 days after getting him settled in at college.  But all in all things went pretty smoothly with weaning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Big Hold-Up?!</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1559</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a hold-up in my milking parlor &#38; I&#8217;m sick of it!  This is one of the difficulties that comes with share-milking (that&#8217;s when you leave the calf with momma part of the time, so you&#8217;re sharing the milk).  Momma decides that she would rather feed baby than give her milk to you, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tats &amp; Tails, Part 2: The Art of Tattooing a Calf</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1537</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dexter Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, last week I wrote about pulling tails and now this is about sticking ears with lots of little needles.  Seems awfully mean, doesn&#8217;t it?  But the calves seem to be such tolerant, forgiving little souls&#8230;.thank goodness!  The ADCA requires either a tattoo or an ear tag for identification purposes on all registered animals.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tats &amp; Tails, Part 1: Collecting a DNA Hair Sample</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1514</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dexter Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This spring&#8217;s Dexter calves are growing beautifully &#38; it&#8217;s now time to take care of some registration details.  We had to get the heifers&#8217; ears tattooed for ID as required by the ADCA, and also pull tail hair to send in for some DNA testing.  Yesterday was the big day for the girls, so they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Day for the Turkeys</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1487</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Farm]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday was moving day.  The turkeys have been living in a movable pen along with the first batch of broilers we hatched this spring.  Those chickens got butchered last week, and now it was time to move the turkeys to some fresh grazing. Their Home The &#8220;house&#8221; is a very simple structure we built just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mace&#8217;s Adventures</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1468</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy busy couple of weeks!  Brenton graduated from high school, as valedictorian, Friday June 17.  We made a road trip to west KY to trade non-breeding Noel back to her original owner in exchange for a half-sister of hers.  I had a fun &#8220;horse show&#8221; day with a small group at a friend&#8217;s farm.  Sierra went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADCA 2011 AGM</title>
		<link>http://hoperefugefarm.com/archives/1440</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happenings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we finally got to attend a real Dexter AGM, Show &#38; Sale!  It was a lot of fun to meet breeders from across the country and see all the nice animals that were present.  Although the weather was quite hot, things went very well.  Thursday was a day for exhibitors to arrive &#38; get cattle [...]]]></description>
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