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Yes only Ewe lambs lol I was like great.....mother nature will give me nothing but Ram lambs for 5 years :lol: The cows have actually not be horribly expensive. When we got them we had to get some grain in to them to improve their condition , they were underweight at their last farm. But now...

We have about 12 acres, the pastures are decent quality, but because we have a smaller acerage we rotate so that they are always on fresh good pasture. We don't eat 2 steers each year, only one will be ready to go this fall/early winter. The other will stay untill next year. We easily will eat...

So I was not sure where to ask this, and I like hearing from all of you who reply and follow my journal on here so i figured I will discuss it here . I feel like we are stuck , on a pretty important decision . I see benefits to both sides, hence why I don't know what to think. We love our sheep...

Oh so colorful! I love it!

no worries I don't mind :) I will come check out your journal though! :)

Good to know, before i started doing research i was seeing that I absolutely had to milk 2x a day no matter what....which kind of scared us off a bit. But after reading more, listening to others with milk cows. It seems it varies by family and what works for them, once a day, once a week, once...

Whoah only 39 days! thats awesome! Im going to have to look in to that kind. I already have my early sweet corn coming up, and my True Gold corn started coming up yesterday.

Oh I love Farmers markets here! a little pricey, but they have some wonderful produce! 6$ for a bulb of garlic is a bit to much for me.

Update time :) I have been in contact with an organic Dairy that breeds jersey cows, they might have something that would fit our situation come july time frame. So excited and yet nervous. This will be a big step for us, but its one we very much want to take. Fingers crossed that it all works...

I believe they kept the calf on her all the time, minus the night before they milked. So essentially she was being milked, but not by them...by the calf. I think for our family milking once a day and letting the calf have it the rest of the time would probably be the best bet.

LOL! ha...ha

Ohh i forgot to add, Im hoping to load my pictures from my camera to the computer today. So hopefully I shall have some pictures of these beasts for you all soon :)

Hoping to get the rest of the garden planted today, and at least get 50% of the new coop built. Its been a long process. Sometimes there is just not enough hours in the day. We have been working a lot on pasture management, trying to figure out how to and where to section off our pasture, its...

swarms of deer flys??? :eek: I didn't know that they did that?! ouch, bites from them hurt!

Yeah I get nervous having a ram around. But I will do everything I can to at least give him the chance to be a good boy. I saw one at a sheep farm we were at and the ram was so insane it would jump out the windows in the barn. I wouldn't even want something like that on my farm, let alone...

We bought netting to wear over our heads, and always have long sleeves and pants on so that we can avoid getting bit as much as possible. And yes , I agree sometimes I do feel house bound because they get so bad. I get bit just walking from the front door to the car.

Thank you for all the ideas :) Im pretty sure that the farm he came from didn't handle him very much, if at all. So im starting from ground zero so to speak. I will keep up with the halter training, And watching his behavior and correcting if needed.

Well it frosted the other night and boy Im glad I had everything covered that needed to be covered. Most of my lettuce survived, minus my poor romaine....they pretty much withered up and died....yet my leaf lettuce handled it like a champ. My leeks seem to be doing ok, I have never grown those...

Yeah I have had many people tell me the type of goats change the taste. But i have tried many kinds and I think it all tastes "goaty" even the cheese though sometimes I can tolerate that if its flavored with spices and herbs enough to cover the goat flavor......maybe im just to used to store...

Grain and treats. Lots of handling in a small space so that they can't escape and run off. We did this with out Katahdin ewes and they are more like dogs now. They always follow us around, come when called, and will walk calm and stand when wearing halters with leads ect. It took a while, but it...