Livin' The Dream Farm

09/20/2026

I promise… by the end of the day you’ll either have a better attitude or you’ll be too damn tired to complain. 😂🐄

09/20/2026

Apparently Dragonfly knows winter is coming before I do. 😂🦨

Last winter, Dragonfly got SUPER chunky, and I’m already noticing her gaining weight again this year—even though I haven’t increased the amount of food she gets.

Skunks naturally prepare for winter by building and conserving fat reserves. As the days get shorter and temperatures begin to change, their bodies are biologically geared toward storing energy because wild skunks become much less active during winter and may spend extended periods denned up in torpor.

Dragonfly lives in an outdoor enclosure, so she still experiences those natural seasonal cues—even though she has the luxury of knowing her meals will keep showing up every day. 😂

Basically, her body is saying, “Winter is coming. We must become potato.” 🦨🥔

09/19/2026

Well, that’s one way I never thought to feed my turkey… breastFED. 😂🦃 I’ve clearly been doing this farming thing wrong.

09/19/2026

The struggle is real

Anyone else?

09/18/2026

🪰 Ever wonder what actually happens when a fly lands on you?

Well… you might wish you hadn’t asked. 😂🤢

A housefly can:

🪰 Taste you with its FEET. Yep. Flies have taste receptors on their feet, so the second they land, they’re basically checking out the menu.

🪰 Walk around looking for sweat, salt, oils, or anything else edible.

🪰 Vomit digestive fluid onto things it wants to eat. Flies can’t chew solid food, so they essentially liquefy it first and then suck it back up. 🤮

🪰 P**p while they’re hanging out. Not every time they land—but yes, it happens.

🪰 Carry germs from one place to another. Considering they happily visit manure, garbage, dead things, and who knows what else before landing on you… this is probably the grossest part.

The good news? A regular housefly landing briefly on intact skin is usually harmless.

But after learning all of this, I’m definitely a little less tolerant of one using me as a landing pad. 😂

And one more fun fact: regular houseflies don’t bite—but horseflies, deer flies, and stable flies certainly do!

09/18/2026

09/18/2026

Many of you will look at these pictures and think, “Awwww, how cute!” 🥹

Me? HORRIFIED this morning. 😂🤦‍♀️

The emu and pig are supposed to be locked in the arena where the donkey is currently hanging out.

And the donkey is supposed to be under the overhang where the emu and pig are. 🤦‍♀️😂

Apparently everyone woke up this morning and decided to play musical pastures.

Waking up is always an adventure around here. Never a dull moment at Livin’ The Dream Farm! 😂

And now I get to figure out HOW everyone got where they are. 🕵️‍♀️🐷🫏🪶

09/16/2026

🚨 NOW HIRING: FARMERS 🚨

Want to become a millionaire through farming?

Here’s the secret:

Start as a billionaire.

That’s what my next-door neighbor told me when I first got into farming.

I thought he was joking.

He was not. 😂

JOB DESCRIPTION: FARMER

We are seeking highly motivated individuals willing to:

• Work 365 days a year.

• Give up weekends, holidays, sick days, snow days, and vacations.

• Work outside in 95° heat, -5° cold, sideways rain, snow, mud, ice—or all of the above.

• Spend thousands of dollars on fencing so a $150 animal can escape in under five minutes.

• Buy hay, grain, minerals, bedding, medications, vaccines, equipment, fuel, registrations, testing, repairs, and veterinary care.

• Spend months or years feeding an animal.

• Lose sleep delivering its babies.

• Spend even more money raising those babies.

• Then hear:

“I saw one on Facebook for $50.”

THE REAL PERKS

• Maintain a second job so you can afford to keep working your first job for free.

• Pay someone to care for your animals so you can go to the job that actually pays you.

• Pay someone to farm-sit if you dare leave the property.

• Accept that one emergency vet visit can erase the profit from several animal sales.

• Understand that a broken fence, tractor repair, dead animal, difficult birth, predator attack, or feed increase can wipe out whatever imaginary profit you thought you had.

• Sell livestock for less than it cost to produce because everyone has apparently decided animals should still cost what they did 15 years ago.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

Salary: Potentially negative

Overtime: Unlimited and unpaid

Health insurance: Try not to get kicked

Dental: Also try not to get kicked

Retirement plan: Sell the tractor

Paid vacation: Absolutely not

Bonuses: Sometimes a healthy baby is born without requiring $600 worth of emergency supplies

Profit sharing: There has to be profit first

And if you become extremely successful…

If you work hard, control your expenses, breed carefully, avoid catastrophic losses, find a good market, and everything goes perfectly…

You may someday achieve the ultimate farming milestone:

Breaking even.

🌾 FARMING: Turn money into manure while people complain your animals cost too much.

Applicants must provide their own:

• Boots
• Truck
• Trailer
• Fencing
• Equipment
• Land
• Livestock
• Emergency fund
• Backup emergency fund
• Completely unreasonable amount of optimism

09/16/2026

KuneKunes born 2026
January- 1 gilt
spotted ginger

April- 1 gilt
spotted
1 barrow
light ginger

May-3 gilts
spotted gingers
July -2 boars

1 spotted/1 ginger

$85 each

09/16/2026

I am genuinely baffled by this mindset in the livestock world.

I can understand an uneducated pet owner or someone brand new to livestock thinking an animal should only cost $50 or $100. They may truly have no idea what goes into producing, feeding, maintaining, breeding, vaccinating, treating, housing, and caring for that animal.

But what absolutely blows my mind is when BREEDERS have accepted the idea that livestock is “just a hobby,” and that expecting to cover your expenses—or heaven forbid, make a little profit—somehow makes you a greedy backyard breeder.

Where does that logic fit anywhere else in life?

A business cannot survive indefinitely selling a product for LESS than it costs to produce.

Feed companies make a profit.
Veterinarians make a profit.
Hay farmers make a profit.
Equipment companies make a profit.
Fence companies make a profit.

But somehow the person actually raising the animal is supposed to lose money because we “love what we do”?

Loving what you do does not mean your time has no value.

And if you are consistently spending more to operate than you bring in, that isn’t a sustainable business model. Eventually something has to give—the herd gets smaller, corners get cut, breeders quit, or prices finally have to reflect what these animals actually cost to raise.

I just cannot understand when we started treating PROFIT like a dirty word in agriculture.

There is a huge difference between price gouging and simply charging enough to cover your expenses, compensate yourself for your work, and have enough left over to continue doing it next year.

Why have we convinced ourselves that livestock breeders should be the exception to how literally every other business works?