Woolly Star Ranch

06/05/2026

Well, we did it again… we adopted another batch of orphaned animals. A friend’s sow had some Mangalitsa piglets and refused to nurse them, she bottle fed them for 3 weeks before they came to the Woolly Star.

Currently, the two small ones are about the size of a turkey chub (they probably weigh about 5 lbs full 😂 and their bigger sister is probably about 7 lbs - need to weigh them). It’s amazing how much intensity something so little has😂 They have great energy and are thriving💚🕊️

06/05/2026

Well guys - here we go again… adopting a few more orphaned farm animals. This time it’s piglets🤪 Mangalitsas to be more precise. I love em already! Thank you for taking the time to watch, it means so much to all of us here on the Woolly Star ⭐️

Rejected by Their Mother… So We Adopted These Mangalitsa Piglets!

When these adorable Mangalitsa piglets were rejected by their mothe...

05/28/2026

Our Lambs Have a New Job: Fire Abatement 🐑🔥

Two of our lambs went to their forever home as a w**d abatement team. It’s always bittersweet rehoming our babies, but these two are going
To a wonderful home and I get to see (and hear them😂) almost every day!

Fire safety is no joke in the mountains of Southern CA. Fire season can create such anxiety, so the more help you have to be prepared the better, AND sheep are an awesome addition. I know for my own property having the sheep here to double time the w**ds is worth their weight in gold!

Don’t worry, Yarrow is staying right here on the Woolly Star Ranch🐑🤍 **dabatement **dabatement

05/28/2026

Our Lambs Have a New Job: Fire Abatement 🐑🔥

Two of our lambs went to their forever home as a w**d abatement team. It’s always bittersweet rehoming our babies, but these two are going
To a wonderful home and I get to see (and hear them😂) almost every day!

Fire safety is no joke in the mountains of Southern CA. Fire season can create such anxiety, so the more help you have to be prepared the better, AND sheep are an awesome addition. I know for my own property having the sheep here to double time the w**ds is worth their weight in gold!

Don’t worry, Yarrow is staying right here on the Woolly Star Ranch🐑🤍 **dabatement **dabatement

Our lambs are heading to a new home—and they have an important job waiting for them. 🐑🌾🔥Rehoming animals is never easy, but knowing they’ll be helping wit...

05/25/2026

So I was working on a propagation experiment with grocery store herb cuttings from Thanksgiving. I started it the end of November and decided to post the results today. I hope you enjoy it. If you think of any plants you’d like me to try and propagate, please leave it in the comments for me. I sure appreciate you guys so much.
Don’t Toss Those Grocery Store Herb Cuttings! Propagate Rosemary & Thyme

Music: Chasing Dusk
Musician: VN VideoEditor

05/25/2026

So I was working on a propagation experiment with grocery store herb cuttings from Thanksgiving. I started it the end of November and decided to post the results today. I hope you enjoy it. If you think of any plants you’d like me to try and propagate, please leave it in the comments for me.

I sure appreciate you guys so much.

Don’t Toss Those Grocery Store Herb Cuttings! Propagate Rosemary & Thyme

Can you propagate rosemary and thyme from grocery store herb cuttin...

05/24/2026

Incubator Surprise! One Little Gosling Hatched💚 Our Toulouse hens started laying eggs, but none of them wanted to set on the nest, so we decided to save a few eggs and place them in the incubator alongside our Black Copper Marans chicken eggs.

After the chicken chicks hatched, we had to open the incubator several times, which caused the humidity levels to fluctuate for the goose eggs. One little Toulouse gosling finally began hatching, but after struggling for nearly 3 days, I noticed the membrane was drying out and making it almost impossible for the gosling to free itself.

Normally, I don’t interfere with hatching because if a chick or gosling cannot hatch on its own, the survival rate is often very low. But this little one kept fighting so hard that we decided to give it a little assistance.

Thankfully, we were able to help this precious baby hatch safely — and now we have one sweet little Toulouse gosling! 🐣

AND Surprise: now our hens are setting on a clutch of goose eggs😉 so this little one will have buddies to swim with.

Music: Whispering Pines
Musician: VN VideoEditor

05/23/2026

Our Toulouse hens started laying eggs, but none of them wanted to set on the nest, so we decided to save a few eggs and place them in the incubator alongside our Black Copper Marans chicken eggs.

After the chicken chicks hatched, we had to open the incubator several times, which caused the humidity levels to fluctuate for the goose eggs. One little Toulouse gosling finally began hatching, but after struggling for nearly 3 days, I noticed the membrane was drying out and making it almost impossible for the gosling to free itself.

Normally, I don’t interfere with hatching because if a chick or gosling cannot hatch on its own, the survival rate is often very low. But this little one kept fighting so hard that we decided to give it a little assistance.

Thankfully, we were able to help this precious baby hatch safely — and now we have one sweet little Toulouse gosling! 🐣

AND Surprise: now our hens are setting on a clutch of goose eggs😉 so this little one will have buddies to swim with.

Music: Whispering Pines
Musician: VN VideoEditor

The Incubator Surprise: One Tiny Gosling

Our Toulouse hens started laying eggs, but none of them wanted to s...

05/15/2026

These little guys are our newest addiction… wait I mean addition to the . They are Mangalitsa piglets. Their origins are from Hungary. these babies happen to be rejected by their mama, thus how we ended up adopting them. Special Thanks to our dear friend .geissler.52 More fun to come🩷

05/14/2026

I had the wonderful opportunity to rescue these beautiful native Royal Penstemon from my dear friends property. They were having a walkway put in and didn’t want the plants to just be discarded (they are true conservationists). They called me and asked if I wanted to rescue and relocate them (if they survive - RPs can be sensitive, especially as large as these are. So what do you think I did? … you know I flew to the rescue😜

Saving Native Wildflowers | Royal Penstemon Rescue

I was given the opportunity to rescue these beautiful Royal Penstemon plants before a new walkway was installed, and I couldn’t let these native flowers go t...