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Welcome to Miles Smith Farm®!
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Please visit our store web site.
Welcome Localvores! Nothing is more local than New Hampshire raised Miles Smith Farm beef.
Visit our store to select locally rasied Scottish Highlander and Angus beef.
All of our beef is naturally raised without hormones or antibiotics.
We sell both Scottish Highlander and Angus individual cuts as well as sides of beef.
Please call 603 783 5159 for more information.
This is also the home site of Carole Soule and Bruce Dawson.
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Stony, a Miles Smith Farm 8 month old Scottish Highlander calf, gets an IV from Dr. Murdock, Pembroke Animal Hospital. He has been under care for a few weeks to help cure his scours and yesterday his temp shot up to 105.3. After the liquid and electrolyte IV his temp is down to 103 and we are hoping for a speedy recovery.
His named Stony (and his pen mate is named "Field") because of the Stonyfield yogurt he enjoyed earlier in the week.
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Posted by cas
on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 07:57 AM (54 Reads)
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Merry Christmas to everyone. We wish everyone Holiday cheer
And that you are safe and enjoying the company of family and friends.
Our cattle hope you have a truly Mooovalous holiday!
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Posted by cas
on Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 06:52 AM (172 Reads)
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New Hampshire, the beef state? Is that possible? We all know cattle need large flat fields to graze and grow. Or do they? According to John Carroll New England, including New Hampshire, is the perfect place to raise cattle. Fields that go up and down, “away folks” call them “hills”, don’t grow crops well but grass thrives.
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Posted by cas
on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 06:07 PM (298 Reads)
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Ababttoir Rising visited the farm in the fall. Check out the story here
Ababttoir Rising
This is a great project and worthy of your support. After all it's all about the cattle, right?
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Posted by cas
on Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 04:08 PM (273 Reads)
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Most of the time the Scottish Highlander cows are great mothers to their new born calves. They lick them dry, encourage them to nurse and fuss when the calves run out of sight. I've seen several calves run off together playing with the anxious mothers not far behind.
But this is not always the case.
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Posted by cas
on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 09:41 AM (322 Reads)
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Sex is required to create babies but is just as important to determine if the cow or heifer is pregnant. Sometimes a bull and cow just don't hit it off so we need to check for pregnancies in all of our 30 cows and heifers. The best time for babies to be born is in the late spring, in late March or April, 9 months after the cow is bred. Calves born in late February or early March can die quickly in a Spring snow or freezing rain storm. When cows are due we check them twice a day but a calf can be born in the night. Heifers with a first calf might not attend to the calf as thoroughly as an older experienced cow and older cows can have trouble as well, so it is important to lend a hand if necessary and get the calf and mother to shelter if they are having trouble.
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Posted by cas
on Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 09:53 AM (300 Reads)
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It is getting crispy outside, winter is close and Thanksgiving is two weeks away. Most of the cattle are back at the farm from their "summer pastures". Two years ago we started contracting with landowners who had fields or recently cleared land they wanted used as pasture. We have a 36 acre farm with 32 acres of pasture, not enough to graze our 65 head of cattle in the summer. Our first summer grazing experiment was in 2006 when we repaired the fence on a 20 acre parcel in Springfield, NH a 2 hour round trip from the farm
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Posted by cas
on Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 09:16 AM (335 Reads)
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So if farming is about life and death it also has to be about sex. Sex is needed to bring in the babies and keep the herd vibrant.
We do "live cover" breeding where we put a bull and some cows together in a pasture and let them figure out the arrangements. A cow becomes "fertile" for a few days each month. This fertility is usually triggered when she is pastured with a bull. Bulls lift their upper lip and sniff the cow to determine if she is "ready" or not. But a good bull does a lot more.
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Posted by cas
on Friday, November 11, 2011 - 09:40 AM (391 Reads)
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Stories and Recipes from the Farm
The St. Croix cat is scratching at the sliding glass door. He wants to go out to finish hunting a large gray squirrel he cornered under the kindling bucket this morning. Earlier this morning just as I stepped to the barn to feed my two horses, I heard a chirp/warble, chirp/warble from near the wood pile beside the house. Our tiger one year old cat, who flew back on the plane from St. Croix on one or our return trips from visiting family, was squating next to the bucket waiting. After I got the cat, Fred, in the house and closed the doors I lifted the bucket and watched the squirrel calmly move to a gap in the nearby wood pile. I also put our 18year old black street cat, Socks, in the house as well where they will stay for a while the squirrel, hopefully, makes its way to freedom.
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Posted by cas
on Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 01:29 PM (353 Reads)
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Farm Day Facebook photo winners are listed below. So many wonderful photos were submitted we decided to pick 4 winners instead of just 2.
Thank you everyone who submitted a photo. Check out our Facebook page to see all of the great pictures.
Here are the top four pictures:
First Place
2nd Place
Runner Up
Runner Up
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Posted by cas
on Sunday, November 06, 2011 - 07:41 PM (302 Reads)
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what
is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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