While gone to Ohio we had 3 baby kids born. We knew one of the mothers would be having kids but had no clue about the other. All were healthy and are growing quite well. Two bucklings and one doeling. One of the bucks, (Charming, we call him) is getting quite frisky. He runs and jumps in the air and just yesterday I saw him butting his head with the Boer doeling that was born in May. This is Charming our 100% Nubian buckling. Charming has a twin which we named Bernard. Bernard is strong but Charming is the bigger one of the two. If you’re wondering if all our goats are named, they’re not. Not normally anyways. I guess I just felt like them having names on that day. No…
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Raising Goats is Not All Easy
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at
11:55 am
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Moo, Baa, Maa and Oink
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at
7:58 am
For the next few days, I’ll be surrounded by all the sounds that make up a farm. No, I have not moved out to our barn but I am camped out at the 4-H, 2010 EXPO where the kids show and sale their animals that they have been raising for the last several months. The last few days have been hectic as the children sheared their animals, got poster boards ready and packed to come to EXPO. It’s amazing how much wool a lamb carries around. It’s at least 2″ thick. There’s all kinds of interesting ways to do a job, right? Wesley’s pig, Bacon. Justus – looking forward to the day when he can raise an animal. Wesley Zachary & Serenity’s lambs saying “Hi” through the fence. I thought…
Do I Smell Something? – Skunk Update
Friday, March 19th, 2010 at
5:47 am
My husband walks into the post office and the lady asks him, “Did you get sprayed by a skunk?” (Whoa! Excuse me?? Did you just say what I think you said?) Our room still has the faint odor of skunk so our clothes are probably absorbing that. Aghhh! When we opened our laptop computer case yesterday the smell was strong. Thankfully the weather has been very nice outside so we’re able to open the windows during the day. I don’t know of any other solutions. I’m just imagining when all 8 of us go to church and trudge down the aisle what it will be like. We’re blissfully walking to our seats and unbeknownst to us a little black odor is following behind. This episode…
A Skunk by Any Other Name is Still a Skunk!
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at
9:25 am
Settling down into my nice comfy bed, getting ready for a restful night, I heard the dog start barking. I figured there probably was a skunk nearby since they seem to be in plentiful supply around here. The barking continued for a while but then the bark changed slightly – making me think our dog must be really close to the animal. It was. Not only was she close to the wild animal, the animal was close to ME! Probably only 5-10′ away because by now it was AT OUR HOUSE by my bedroom!! Then it not only was at our house but UNDER our house. The skunk broke through a screened vent we have that vents our basement crawl-space. How do we…
The Birth of Baby Kids – Goat kids, I Mean
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 at
1:24 pm
Last night when all was cold and overcast, 3 goat kids were born. There was one kid that found its legs rather quickly. Sometimes you get worried thinking the kids might be weak since they just lay there. The mother seemed unconcerned, not licking them or giving them any milk. I suppose this doe had other things on her mind though. She was still trying to deliver the placenta. Since I have only arrived at a birth after the babies are born and the placenta is nowhere to be seen, I wasn’t sure if this was normal or not. But I found out last night it is how it’s supposed to be. While Sugar, the momma doe, was busy with other things the second doe finally got…
Goat Pen Construction
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at
1:40 pm
To do a little catching up on what’s been happening around the farm, here are some pictures of the latest building added. There are quite a few pictures, so if your browser is slow you’ll have to be patient. After losing about 5 goats to mountain lion attacks, Russell decided to make them an enclosed building that we could lock them into at night. The shelter was built using the leftover wood from our barn. Russell and the boys felled the trees themselves a few years ago and milled them – thus making their own lumber. I love this rustic look. These girls just had to see it up close. So much more fun. The enclosure was built at our house but that wasn’t where we were putting…
Farewell, Granny Smith
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at
6:45 am
Yesterday we laid to rest this Granny Smith apple tree that we planted 10 years ago when Seth (18yo) was only 8. We have the only green patch (our lawn) for miles around so we battle regularly with free roaming cattle that are grazing on the National Forest nearby. Seth liked Granny Smith’s and asked, all those years ago, if we would get one for him. So, we did. It was always a runt of a tree probably due to the fact that cows came to visit it even back then. Seth had to be the man and do the deed. Now in its place we have… I’m thinking a pine tree would look good here. And cows don’t eat those, right? Farewell to a…
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