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I'm having kind of a frustrating problem to work on this week/two weeks. The remnants of my last delivery of hay are molding in my big barn. It's not to the point the goats can't/won't eat it yet and we only have like 10 bales left, but my alfalfa isn't looking so great anymore and even the...

The boy mom in me wonders why they don't understand "my person sized dog will eat you if you do that". But what do I know? maybe that's a tad blunt...

People are telling you what's important to them right there. True dedication. ;)

Wow, weight taped Pete's doe kid crop from the week of January 19th (scale needed it's AAA batteries changed for the first time since I got it, bad timing). They're all coming in at between 84-100 lbs now. I may breed them live cover in December for kids to sell so I can weed through them for...

Man, that would be so fun. I loved the poultry shows at the county fairs when I was a kid and the little men need exposure to stuff like that although I think The Spouse thinks that if I set foot in the Midwest I'm not coming home. We might have to go anyway someday. I think that much variety...

and trying to be as close as possible to organic is hard, especially in a swampy property in Kentucky. She does her best. Those wethers will serve her family well. Next year I'd like to raise wethers for us, but they won't be organic. We're conventional and I like my alfalfa, and I'm sure it's...

I kept hoping those hips would go down a bit, but I guess not.

With last year being Aramis' first breeding season and his kids shaping up I'm taking a moment to think about him. Aramis added more spring of rib, but his whole rear end geometry feels off to me and it looks like he may throw it. I may let him go and go buck shopping while Pete's daughters are...

Buff leghorns are so pretty. I hope you get a nice set.

Edited last post because somehow I deleted that our water issue were leaking pipes.

"Waterproofing" fixed. Pipe leaks. One was probably because our water is acidic and the other the company said was because someone let the house freeze at some point. The last people installed the pipe that the leak was on so the lovely sellers that gave us so much hassle just gave us more...

Well, poo. The little white Nigerian buck Beaul does not have a very good batting record so far. Today all but one of his five does are back or going back into heat-the 18ish month old ND doe hasn't gone back in yet. So I'm re-breeding every single mini Saanen to him one more time and if this...

Yes, we used it last year. No negative reactions. I'm still deciding if I want to use vimco again this kidding.

Brush hog day for the pasture in preparation for the fence men.

Huh. A flock of black vultures are chasing my bucks off their grain every day and eating it down like birdseed. I just came out at an off time and suddenly things are making sense. I am not. Happy.

Basement waterproofing time. It's going to be expensive. Let's get this farmhouse sound.

Hey, that's a good start! She wants to be there.

You can try to out persistent her, but some Nigerian Dwarf goats are just witches on the stand and will always be. Tying her back feet to the back of the stand so she can't get them over the edge of the bucket but can still eat and putting a bucket under her may help. Keep food in front of her...

We have tons of bats to spare. Preparing for the next wave of fun.

Yep. I get a series of 4 vaccines and I got the immunoglobulin at the site of the bite. Somehow that wound up being 5 shots last night/this morning.