77Herford Farm Zoo Journal Moving

[redtailgal]

Well, a few acres of snow peas.......you could just turn me out to graze!

Seriously, dude, plant some Garlic. You'll need two types, Italian Sweet and Italian Hot..........plant two times as much sweet as the hot, and use them at a 2;1 ratio when you cook (two parts sweet one part hot). You'll get a nice sweet, smokey, garlic taste that is not over powering, and doesnt leave the Kiss-me-not breath.

 

[77Herford]

Hmm, we are a pretty whimpy family when it comes to spicy things. I'll look around and see what is available.

 

[ksalvagno]

How do you have time to take care of flowers and a garden and all your animals?

Come now, you know they don't need constant care. For the most part they eat, poop and sleep. As long as they are healthy I pretty much don't need to do much. Its the calving season when I'm most busy but even then theres parts of the day when its super busy and then other times nothing is going on.

I think I probably do more "fussing" with my goats. With the alpacas, I cleaned up poop both around the barn and out in the field daily and twice a day when I was in birthing season and birthing alpacas for others. So that kind of cleaning up after animals continued for me to the goat world. I admit that I don't clean out the goat areas like I did the alpacas but I probably do more cleaning and checking and such than most people. So that takes up more of my time than probably most people spend on animal chores thus giving me less time to do other things like gardening.

 

[77Herford]

How do you have time to take care of flowers and a garden and all your animals?

Come now, you know they don't need constant care. For the most part they eat, poop and sleep. As long as they are healthy I pretty much don't need to do much. Its the calving season when I'm most busy but even then theres parts of the day when its super busy and then other times nothing is going on.

I think I probably do more "fussing" with my goats. With the alpacas, I cleaned up poop both around the barn and out in the field daily and twice a day when I was in birthing season and birthing alpacas for others. So that kind of cleaning up after animals continued for me to the goat world. I admit that I don't clean out the goat areas like I did the alpacas but I probably do more cleaning and checking and such than most people. So that takes up more of my time than probably most people spend on animal chores thus giving me less time to do other things like gardening.

If I had smaller enclosures I would probably clean up the manure more but I'm lucky enough to have lots of room. Each " Pen " has about twenty feet of concrete from the shelter, which was once used for pigs long ago. I split the old Pig set up into three seperate two acre pens. The female Goats and kids have the Pen nearest the Cows, which I recently added on to. The Buck is down hill at the far end of the first pen. The Goats will now have eight more acres during the warmer months.

 

[77Herford]

The Goat kids had a grand old time on the tree trunks today. The Saanen buckling is in pen 2 now along with the British Alpine buckling. The Brit is younger but I weaned him early so the Saanen had some company. I need to put them in another pen because they can still interact with mom. I guess I could put the main Goat herd in a bigger pasture near the Sheep and then the boys can have their alone time. I probably shouldn't put two young bucklings alone in a large pasture, lol.

The Simmentals are starting to show with their sides expanding. It won't be until summer time.
The Herefords will be birthing in about a week and then over spring.
The Char's and Simm's are in one herd now and will be bred to Trouble this year once the remaining Simm's have givin birth.

 

[autumnprairie]

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

I am currently scouting for good tree trunks for our goats. They are clearing land down the road from us and I'm going to see if they'll let me hoist a big chunk onto the trailer. Not sure how we'll get it off again but I figure if I chain it to the pine tree and slowly pull forward it will slide off the trailer.

 

[autumnprairie]

I have a mulberry tree that my kids play on and try to eat the leaves off of. I will have to get some pictures but here is one for ya (taken by QM) this is at my head over 5 feet off the ground

 

[77Herford]

Nice, I don't have any tree climbers, thankfully. I'd probably worry about them falling. The Goats are liking the little wooded area in their new lot. They eat dead dry or wet leaves which boggles my mind and some chew on twigs. I guess some Goats really do have a wide range of tastes. I blame my having any Goats on Elevan for
"guiding" me to the purchase of my first ones.
They are already eating up the many saplings and will probably thin out the messy shrubs and weeds growing in the timber already.
I couldn't believe how thick and tall some of my pasture was already. Some of the sections inbetween forest sections are tall and healthy looking.

After mentioning them last night, some of my Herefords decided to surprise me with a few new members to the herd. Got four calves doing fine with their mom's. 3 bulls and 1 heifer.

 

[autumnprairie]

Nice, I don't have any tree climbers, thankfully. I'd probably worry about them falling. The Goats are liking the little wooded area in their new lot. They eat dead dry or wet leaves which boggles my mind and some chew on twigs. I guess some Goats really do have a wide range of tastes. I blame my having any Goats on Elevan for
"guiding" me to the purchase of my first ones.
They are already eating up the many saplings and will probably thin out the messy shrubs and weeds growing in the timber already.
I couldn't believe how thick and tall some of my pasture was already. Some of the sections inbetween forest sections are tall and healthy looking.

After mentioning them last night, some of my Herefords decided to surprise me with a few new members to the herd. Got four calves doing fine with their mom's. 3 bulls and 1 heifer.

congrats on the new additions