Snider Farm

03/19/2024

We haven’t been super active on our farm page lately! We’ve been extremely busy around here!

Today, I was cleaning out the feed/bunny barn when the inspectors decided to drop by…👀🫡

11/17/2023

Our little Theo is growing like a w**d! He’s only six months old and is catching his mama fast! I’m thinking he’ll be bigger than she is. I often joke that he skipped over both the mini donkey and mini pony genes and will grow up to be a draft mule like Minnie one day!😆

He’s the sweet, softest, little guy you’ve ever seen. He’s also pretty thicc😏😂

He’s the best surprise I’ve ever had and I thank God for sending him to me.🫶🏻

10/29/2023

My geese and ducks put themselves to bed tonight all on their on free will without me having to herd them in with food!! I thought that would never happen!! Geese and ducks are not like chickens that will automatically (for the most part) find their way back to the coop for the night. They will however follow me and a bucket of food back “home”. Time slipped away from me this evening and I was a little late with their grain and they went in all by themselves. I did a quick head count and was so proud! I just love our little mixed flock🐓🪿🦆🩵🩷

10/16/2023

🫶🏻🍂🧡

09/16/2023

God really said “copy and paste” with Wanda and her baby Hazel🩷

06/23/2023

It’s been awhile since we’ve updated our farm page! That’s my fault. We’ve been distracted with spring time, new babies, vet visits, and working on many things around here that take a lot of time but don’t show a lot of progress. Here are some of the most recent pictures of some of the animals and our daily “goings on.”🖤🌱🐾

05/14/2023

Hay hair, don’t care.

05/14/2023

Happy Mother’s Day!💗

These are all the mothers on our farm. Even in the animal kingdom, nothing beats a mothers love.

*I included Minnie (our draft mule) because she is truly meant to be a mother, but because she’s a mule she’s never been one, biologically. She takes care of everyone, especially her little Olive, so that makes her a mother in my book.

04/29/2023

The babies have fluffed up and become so much more active in their first day of life. They’re so tiny and I just can’t wrap my mind around it. They’re the softest, velvetiest little cuties. I could snuggle them all day. They have the best momma ever. Pray their health stays up. Baby goats are so fragile.🫶🏻💜

Ghost has really come around to me in the past couple weeks as her pregnancy was coming to an end. I feel like animals can sense things like that. She knows I’m here to help her and care for her so she can care for her babies. She normally doesn’t want to be messed with much, but she’s totally trusting of me to handle her babies and even her after being there with her babies today. Ghost wasn’t a bottle baby and we bought her as an adult so she’s never been too fond of being a “pet”, but now it’s a complete turn around and she seems to enjoy it.💛

04/09/2023

LOOK AT THIS…

“Fairy Egg”🥚

It’s so tiny🤏🏻🥹😆

03/11/2023

Just wanted to show these ”weird” eggs in collected today!!

The first picture, the egg on the left is extra wonky shaped.

The second picture is a teeny tiny egg compared to our normal sized egg.

🥚🐓😆

12/26/2022

Jacob Snider

😜😜😜

12/26/2022

Jacob Snider

12/26/2022

When I said I liked winter better than summer, I meant our mild NC winters where it’s 60° on Christmas. I think I’ll just shut up about weather preferences now, except for saying fall and spring are my favorites. I will not utter another bad word about the heat of summer again after this COLD weekend. It’s all about perspective I guess!🥲

Here’s Juniper relaxing after running near the end of this summer. (She isn’t afraid of tractor engines or anything loud around the farm, but you better not turn on the back windshield wiper while she’s in the car. That thing is demonic!😆)🧡

12/26/2022

We want to salute all the farmers and ranchers out there today. While a lot of us can take a late start today or just not work at all - they're out there keeping their animals alive and their operations going for the sake of all of us. Stay safe. We ALL thank you.

12/21/2022

Comments like this just make me wish they knew.

Let's say you already put in a sixteen hour day. It's late. It's dark. It is raining, 36 degrees, and it is windy. You already fed and cared for 250 animals.

And then, just when you think you are done for the day, you notice one calf took off her blanket.

One calf.

So you go to put the blanket back on and realize that calf had gotten her blanket wet and also is getting scours (diarrhea).

She'd totally be fine till morning. She'd live. You could just call it at that and not do anything.

Or you could get her more bedding and a dry clean blanket. You could also get her a bottle of electrolytes, adding something to calm down her digestive system, and something to help with her fever.

One option is easier and what that person indicates would be the obvious choice for a fHARMer.

But I went with what a farmer would do. Get that dry blanket, give her new straw, feed her electrolytes, and give her medicine.

Because farmers care.

Because when you stop being compassionate, you stop being a farmer.

The way I look at it, my purpose as a farmer is to serve my Creator by caring for His creation.

And when you look at it like that, that the calves are ultimately God's and He chose you to be a steward over each calf, it really changes your perspective.

God has compassion on me all the time.

I can have compassion towards His creation.

It's the least I can do given all He has done for me.