July 19, 2011

Heat is back!!!!The cooler weather was sooo nice... My goats are lying around in the shade trying to stay cool... They come up to get a scratch and then go lie down again. Everything is in slow motion.   I love to sit and talk to them.. I have one baby that is 3 wks and she wants to play and no one will play with her. Funny...
We had some rain but it warmed back up...Yuck...
Tomorrow all the bucks are going into their own area. Too much interest in sisters,

July 13, 2011

I have one new doeling, who is two weeks old now. Great condition....
This past month I lost 4 goats to Barber Pole parasites. I really thought I had a handle on this parasite. this is the part of raising goats I do not like..
We have had days of close to 100' days. So glad it cooling down tomorrow.
I have 3 doelings to sell in late August...Three great bucks to sell and more to take to market. Then we start all over again.

Time flies

I sold my first doelings of this year. So sad, but they went to a good farm.  I have two more that I will sell in July. I have 3 bucks that are super and I would love to sell for breeding. And another 8 that will go to market in August.
My Kiko/pygmy buck got to several does and I have precious kids that I cannot sell for breeding or meat, too small. A friend is getting them. 
I had one little doeling die, broke my heart, she was my pet. She came over and I would hold her and she would press on my chest. I loved that. I buried her by my flower garden.
I have one doe left to kid, her udder filled up and I am waiting. that is the hard part, waiting.
My buck broke out of his area last Monday and I have left him out. But I have not seen him mount any doe. He is grey from his spray, usually snow white, and smells........ But he is happy. Funny...

KIds growing fast

My oldest kids were born March 15, and the last are two wks old. Most have doubled their birth weight or more. Now some of them are so big I think they are adults. Excited about selling them. I hope to see some for breeding but most to the meat market. There are 3 that are smaller and I hope to find a home for them to be pets. This is the hard part when raising goats, what to do with the smaller ones.
And I am hatching 61 guinea eggs, hope to sell most of them. And I have one chicken sitting on eggs , so I am going to put more under her.
Yea, warm weather.  lots to do outside

March 29, 2011 New kids

I have been busy the last two weeks, 18 kids so far and two does still left. Everyone doing well, except me. I'm pooped. Mostly boys, but I guess that is okay. 1 set of triplets, 3 sets of twins and the rest singles.

kids coming

Wow, 2 months and the time has flown by. Kids due next week... Still a ton to do.. And baby chicks will be hatching. I didn't want chicks but didn't see this hen sitting until too late. So baby chicks and baby kids.

Winter snow again

It is so much snow again. This is the 3rd time this winter and there is alot of winter left.
I sold the Long horns to a family that raise beef. And they took my bottle babies, that were spoiled rotten. They have an 8 yr old to play with them,..
The goats are expecting extra food. Hay is enough but the does are pregnant so I am a ole softy. 
It is great to walk outside and the goats called out to me.