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We had two this time around that liked to bury themselves in the bedding. It is so cute to watch them burrow in. They would move their little snout just a bit and play peek-a-boo.

Thank you @B&B Happy goats , we did find two of the three missing piglets. They had been buried under the bedding in the pen. We think we may have had too much bedding in there. We added some a couple of days earlier to encourage her to nest/labor. Then it was super cold here last night, around...

Five months, I think.

I really do too. I wish I knew what happened or why Thelma ate two babies overnight.

Low! Yuk! Yet another creature I had no Idea it existed.

It has been really cold here and blustery. We got down to 4 degrees two nights ago. I think this is going to be a harsh winter this year.

She sure is. First she was withholding her babies for 5 weeks. We must have miscalculated her due date. And now she only has 5 babies left. We don’t even have another sow to surrogate for her. She was such a fabulous mom her first litter. But she was in a farrowing crate for that birth. We...

I think we are going to brave the crowds today and do some shopping for the kids and grandkids. YUK!

It is a picture of his cut. I had held it proximated for several minutes before taking this picture. That is only about half of the cut that you are seeing.

Hi @Rammy , how have you been doing?

It’s a sad day for us on our farm. We went in to check on the baby pigs that were born yesterday. We had 8 last night when we left the farm. This morning there was only 6 in the pen to be found. Thirty minutes after being on the farm one of the remaining babies got stepped on by the sow, it’s...

No , I don’t think lions in Texas are a good idea. But everything in Texas grows bigger. A BIG kitty?

I’ve never heard of this animal before. I had to look them up. They are a bit elusive from what I can gather. Not many in the US. You got really lucky to have seen it.

I did get some Wonder Dust yesterday. I like that it has a spout and not a shaker top. It has been a weird day at the farm today. It was a late start day. Noon, not 9:00am. I’m trying to switch nipples on the bottles today. Six of them caught on with very little resistance. But the two that...

@Southern by choice, I was wondering if it was too soon for one of the black “caps” over a dehorning site to fall off. It’s been three weeks since the boys had their surgery. Tonight while I was feeding them I heard a small cry from one of them. Jack had come to me with one red spot and one...

Welcome from Wisconsin. You are so SMART for joining the group, learning, and researching about goats before bringing them home. I did the complete opposite. I jumped in head first into a rapid rushing river. It’s been a struggle the entire time. I wouldn’t return them for the world. I started...

Is that something that can be corrected with regular hoof trimming or something that I can do?

I sure hope it don’t. It was only 4 years ago that I worried about feeding my new baby girl. I knew I’d forget sometime or another. It’s not bad now, because I know my daughter will tell me she’s hungry now. That wasn’t always the case.

Things I’ll never know, things I don’t want to know, things I wish I didn’t know?

I think that it does cover all of the bases.