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		<title>New Silk Creek Farm Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With our move from just alpacas to alpacas, chickens, turkeys, quails &#38; eggs, we are now Silk Creek Farm.  With that we moved to our new web page (now mostly finished) at http://www.silkcreekfarm.com.
With this, I am going to move over to a new farm blog.  The new farm blog will be accessed at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=493</link>
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		<title>New Incubator &#8211; 200+ Quail Eggs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;ve been wanting to build a larger incubator for some time.  When Lilian and I built our incubator last year, we put a post out on freecycle.com asking for a free ice chest or small fridge.  We got the Omaha Steaks ice chest and a larger dorm fridge for free.  We ended up using the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=483</link>
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		<title>Our New Logo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are in the process of changing the focus of our farm from just alpacas to a more diversified farm with chickens (meat and egg), quail (meat and egg), turkeys and in the future, we hope to add goats for milk.  So for this, we have decided to change our name from Silk Creek [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=476</link>
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		<title>2009 Goals (or &#8220;How did we do?&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is December 31, 2009, time to look at our 2009 Farm Goals.  We did complete some and didn&#8217;t
I&#8217;ll start with the 2009 Farm Goals:
= COMPLETED
= Started but not completed
=No work done yet.
Put in a Garden &#8211; We had a great garden this year.  The corn was delicious, the tomatoes did great, we had TOOOO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=471</link>
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		<title>Cold Weather &#8211; Warm Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been extremely cold the last few days.  It was around 10° this morning when I went out to check on the quail, chickens &#38; alpacas.  Right now it is 13° and getting colder tonight.  We got tired last year of breaking ice on the alpacas water.  This year with chickens and quails, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=463</link>
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		<title>Turkey!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turkey before cooking.

Breast on a full size cookie sheet.

Dark meat cooking on Kamado.


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		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=457</link>
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		<title>Turkey Time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was the day to butcher our turkeys for Thanksgiving!!  We have been waiting since April for this day!  This entire week the weather has been saying that it was going to be COLD &#38; RAINY today.  We woke up and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!  Cold but beautiful!!  When I went out at 9:00 to start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=449</link>
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		<title>One and only . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This might be my one and only political post on this blog.  I don&#8217;t get in to politics that much.  I don&#8217;t follow too closely that is going on in the world of politics more than I hear on TV/Radio/Friends, and even then, I really don&#8217;t pay much attention.
This last few months I&#8217;ve been paying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=442</link>
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		<title>2009 Alpaca Farm Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was our 2nd annual National Alpaca Farm Day!  What a great day it was!  Julia and the girls had done a lot of work during the week to get the farm ready for the day.  During the evenings we worked on paper work, getting everything set-up, learning how to do needlefelting, etc.  This was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Big Tom is home!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started writing this last week, but with National Alpaca Farm Day preparations, I never got back to finish it.  So here&#8217;s the finished product!!
Our new BIG TOM carder arrived!  It is SOOOOO cool!!
We got home and this big box was on the front porch, and we knew what it was right away.  We knew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silkcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=411</link>
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