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Over on our Hermity Farmer-Women blog we are having a super giveaway and guest blogger week. Lots of bloggers from BYC and you don't have to be a blogger/facebooker,tweeter to enter to win! http://hermityfarmer-women.blogspot.com/2011/03/welcoming-spring-giveaway-and-guest.html

Thanks, we ended up going over to bozeman for some. I appreciate your replies though.

Thanks, I love them too! I am already beyond addicted, and so is my mom! But this is all we can do this year as we are starting a huge vegetable garden, we have eggs for hatching arriving next week and then chicks arriving the end of march! Yikes....but exciting.

Not to scare you from reporting her but if she can do that to her animals she wouldn't bat an eye at doing it to your in revenge. I am so sorry you had to witness that. ((hugs))

Oh and I removed the hay net so nobody got tangled, it was just already in the trailer.

And yes, all caps for exclamatory! 3 little darlings, I can't remember the exact age but are on 1 bottle a day and needing weaned soon. Have to call the dairy and get their age. We drove about 2 hrs away to the Amaltheia Dairy and had about 80 babies to choose from. You mean I can't take them...

Ok so I wasn't too worried about racoons with the kids, just the chickens, but then I read an article about a racoon doing damage to a kid.....Ahhhh we have a lot of racoons, I might have to rethink my nightime enclosure to something racoons can't get in. Any info is much appreciated. I know...

How adorable! Can't wait to see pics of some little one/ones!

Ok thats sounds right, lol. But I have only been around does before and one smelly Billy, lol. Just wasn't sure on the wethers. My kids are 9,7 and 4 and we will definitely teach them to respect the goats, just like the cows and horses we already have. I am still torn on the disbudding...

I have read conflicting details on whether the glands are really necessary to remove or not. And I am still on the fence about disbudding. I worry about my kids and their safety around them if they aren't disbudded. But maybe I don't need to be. I heard you can put tennis balls on the ends...

So I am still trying to decide what to get for baby goats and I was thinking that I would get a couple males, but then I read that you have to not only disbud but remove the scent glands too if you want a non stinky wether. What ages does this need to happen? And can I do it, or do I need a...

Idaho is very nice too!

Well thats good its not frostbite, its been sooo cold here. We had a week straight of -20to-30 during calving poor babies!

ahhhhh so cute! :love And so much hard work;)

They look like they have frostbite? That happens to some of our calves and the tips eventually fall off.

Would you be interested in writing? We are still looking for 1 more writer.

I am beyond excited! So much fun!

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