Orchard Knoll Farm

01/16/2025

This is my brother. He runs an amazing fishing guide service, a perfect family or friends outing! Makes a great gift!

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01/11/2025

Here we are two weeks out, Miss Daisy is all about cuddling right now haha! Her milk is in and the puppies are moving!! I’m so excited for this litter, her due date is the 23rd, stay tuned :)

12/02/2024

Here is how our pack hangs out. Buckshot always lays near or on his momma Clare, Daisy sleeps alone 🙂

Yes, they all get along great, but BS is definitely a momma’s boy 😂

Daisy is now finished with her heat cycle, her and BS have mated at least 4 times, maybe more, so we are expecting a nice healthy litter around Jan 20th. If you know anyone who would be interested in an adorable Labrador puppy, please refer them to our Fbook page (https://www.facebook.com/orchardknoll) or our instagram account ()

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11/16/2024

At long last!! Daisy is in heat! We expected this in October, so she was delayed, but finally she is 🙂 This litter will be born in the middle of January with pups ready in March. Stay tuned for more as her season progresses!

10/24/2024

Guess who has finally healed?? Just waiting for Buckshot to grow out the shaved patch!! Good as new! ❤️

09/10/2024

Ok, thought I would give an update on Buckshot, it isn’t great! So we took the stitches out on day 10 (last Sat.). 30 minutes later the wound was completely opened, the skin didn’t stay closed. This was a trip to the emergency vet, of course! He was not bothered by it and did not exhibit discomfort at all which was a blessing. It was also a blessing that the wound opened because the tissue underneath was necrotic (dead)!

From what we can piece together the Sebaceous cyst is a really nasty deal and the stuff that comes out is just caustic and probably killed the tissue. We would not have known this unless the skin, which looked perfectly healthy, had opened. That could have been a fatal infection, so we are glad things worked out the way they did.

So this brings us to the fix. He had surgery at 2 am on Sunday morning to clean out the dead tissue, once done they had to put stitches in a circle around the wound, then they packed the wound with gauze and tied a lace through the stitches and over the gauze to hold it down. It was very clever and it allows them to open the gauze and clean the wound every 36 to 48 hours over the next few weeks. This is open wound management because the skin on the back is tight and there is no tissue underneath, so it can’t be sewn shut yet.

Over the next few weeks his tissue will grow and fill in and they will continue to pull the stitches to get the skin tight to where they can eventually sew it together. Unfortunately for Buckshot this means he will be sedated and have his wound cleaned and gauze changed every few days. Unfortunately for us, this cyst is costing a lot more than we expected! I think if we were to do it again, if we ever have another dog with a cyst, we will have it removed immediately.

For those interested in the medical side of it, I will post pictures in the comments, I don’t want to gross anyone out so I won’t include them here. The picture on this post is Buckshot going back to the vet after his big surgery, the whites of his eyes tell you how he was feeling 😂 :)

08/28/2024

So our boy Buckshot developed a Sebaceous cyst on his back over a year ago. A lot of dogs get these, it has to do with their hair follicle. It is not a genetic condition and can happen to any breed. The vet advised us that if it remained solid it was not a problem.

Last week it started swelling and leaking and an enormous amount of gross stuff came out of it 🤢 Once it does this it needs to be removed. He went on a strong antibiotic for a week and had his surgery today.

The vet we use allows him to recover in our home, so he was returned to us with a bunch of stitches and fast asleep.

He made it through the procedure fine and is waking up now. It will be a long afternoon 😀

If anyone has a dog that gets this, don’t be fooled by thinking it looks better on the outside, the tumor they cut out under the skin is quite large, just because the top part that you can see drains and looks better does not fix the problem, surgery is necessary to avoid reoccurrences and to keep the infection from spreading internally.

Sorry for the pics, tried to get the least icky pics possible to show after surgery results. Stitches come out in 10 days.

08/11/2024

Hi everyone!! Hope you are enjoying this humid August!! We sure are :) We are watching our neighbors dog this week and she just happens to be one of Clare's puppies! Also, she is Buckshot's sister! They are having a good time and she is such a pretty pup. Thought I would share some lab shots since I haven't posted in awhile!

Feel free to post some of your "summer fun" pics with your pups! I love to see them as they grow :)

06/29/2024

We only brought two of the three beds in the living room, but they didn’t mind, all three pouring over the edges, probably cooler that way! 🤣

06/16/2024

Happy Father’s Day Buckshot!! Also to R***r and Sammy, too!!

If you have puppy pics from any of the litters, we’d love to see how cute they are 🙂

In all seriousness, Happy Father’s Day, hope everyone is having a great day!!

05/16/2024

Mother and Son 💕

04/24/2024

It looks like we have an obsession, Buckshot has become enamored with the wading pool, obsessively watching for fish. He spends, literally, hours staring at the pool. We have a stream behind our house, outside of our gate, he has always loved tracking minnows. But now he is all about the wading pool. Trying to decide if there needs to be an intervention, this was last weekend and he spent at least 2 1/2 hours staring…. Anyone have a similar experience? He heads to the pool daily as we let him out, I need to figure out if this is bad for him! 🙂

04/15/2024

So the ducks have been moved from the duck enclosure into the larger chicken pen. Now they have two indoor space and a large outdoor space. As part of their move, we upgraded their baby pool to a 300 gallon stock tank! They absolutely love it and it will be easier for us to drain and refill. We build them a set of make-shift steps (temporarily) as we plan out a "hill" so they will be able to walk directly into their pond.

They were so excited to get in and play, but they have not ever had anything this deep. You can see in the video as they struggle to figure out how to get to the bottom of the pond to retrieve some corn we threw in there. It was funny watching them bob around and kick their feet in the air - they are so bouyant! Eventually they figured out that if they went in at an angle they were able to get under the water and their kicking became much more effective!

04/01/2024

Was a great day for Gma Clare and her pup Buckshot to soak up some sunshine 🥰

03/20/2024

The pack is back!! Spring heat is over!! With the timing of it, I think in the fall (next heat) we may have puppies that will be ready to go on/around Christmas!! We will see! For now, just lazy sunny days soaking up the sun ☀️

03/02/2024

Oh my sweet little Easter Egg is in heat :) Keeping her and Buckshot apart (and they are not happy about it!!). Nine days of pre-heat, nine days of mateable heat and then a few extra days of making sure there are no mistakes 😆 It is a long 3 weeks!

Based on this timeline, she will come into heat again in late August or early September, meaning she will have puppies in late October or early November, ready for homes in late December or early January - stay tuned :)

02/16/2024

This is why we bought the big bed haha - notice the two empty dog beds behind them! 🥰