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Ooo, you need an apprentice!

We are officially full on round bales. Now onto the alfalfa bales on Saturday then we're good for winter.

What, no overly serious, self important, loud little drama queens? They have their perks. What I've experienced is they take a 4 gallon batch of cheese that with all standard milk would yield just under 4 pounds of finished cheese and make it a 5 pound cheese. Some of them do make as much as a...

@Ridgetop , funny, I was just thinking about that. The best most reliable source of milk and meat (on the side) I've ever had is a herd of well raised, adult Lamanchas. They just do what they do quietly and well. Totally if the ND project becomes too much of a pain in the bum and pocket book...

*gulp* emailed Rockin-CB. Maybe they'll have time for me. Hopefully I won't be perceived as a pest with all the post national champion business and get taken for "a walk" for amusement due to lack of consequence because I'm no one. You never know what you'll find in the show dairy goat industry...

This pic-that side eye-the cutest

I believe I have a friend that did the high tunnel through the govt (not sure if it was federal or state). They use it to grow food for the family in rural Kentucky. She's "Sage and Stone Homestead" on YouTube (Youtube is also an income source). I haven't looked for specific videos on it, but...

Hello, and welcome to you and your Lamanchas! :frow

I kind of wonder if that's why the ND breed hasn't been improving dairy-wise as much as it could be. That and general contention/counterproductive competition. That's also why I want to have DNA on file for all the goats we keep to breed. Kids can be matched to their parents and we can have the...

Happy Riker.

He actually came up to me in the pen and wanted to be leashed.and taken to meet her and could hardly contain himself enough to walk in a straight line.

Riker, who is on a hunger strike since being put in the micro pen (hence the bowl of food I've been following him around with) got his new queen b7tch today. He doesn't seem to think she's real but doesn't want to stop following her around in the barn. And she's quit barking.

That's why they're requiring DNA on all bucks born after like 2021 if I remember right. And they probably wanted to do does too before they started having software issues. An extra $37 expense on all registrations because the big money breeders don't feel rules apply to them. Anyway...

Registry usually does nothing. If they offend the wrong big wig they may give them a slap on the wrist. The worst I've seen them do is force them to turn in DNA whenever they register kids or sell goats. Personally I think they should kick repeat offenders out and downgrade their herd's pedigree...

I think after a short day of work with lots of set up it's about half way! One, maybe two more business days.

To put all that in shorter terms, turns out my white ND buck is not who he was supposed to be and is his less well bred brother. And my barn is barking.

Ugh. DNA drama. Mr. White buck might be out of here. He's out of a split litter by two different sires-one father and one son, verified shortly after birth. His DNA took forever to come back this time and it looks like that instead of being the nicer buck of the litter, he's probably by a sire...

No boar funk?

The does do not think so, lol. I didn't get a pic of the reduced buck pen. It was too much work. I think I'd really like to sell some bucks.

Fence company just called and left a message. They want to start tomorrow or Monday. Right when I was feeling sorry for myself and more than a little resentful of someone always by default listening more to other people than his wife and me getting to take the brunt of the consequences for it...