77Herford Farm Zoo Journal Moving

[redtailgal]

lol, beautiful and aggressive!

From your descriptions of your wife, one could think that you were in love or somethin.

 

[77Herford]

Duh

 

[Ms. Research]

Well, I'm the reader in the household. Always loved it. DH admires my reading and research capabilities. Others don't, especially what I uncovered with my research capabilities and my DH's common sense way to look at things. Oh well.

Love what you are doing with the high schoolers. Hopefully you will send them off with some sort of understanding of the value of livestock and what it is to care for them. Excellent lesson. And to those ladies on the forum who helped with the suggestion, good for you. Smart move and a great lesson in life. Though some might not get the message entirely, I think some will eventually have an understanding. Isn't that what it's all about?

 

[77Herford]

Well, I'm the reader in the household. Always loved it. DH admires my reading and research capabilities. Others don't, especially what I uncovered with my research capabilities and my DH's common sense way to look at things. Oh well.

Love what you are doing with the high schoolers. Hopefully you will send them off with some sort of understanding of the value of livestock and what it is to care for them. Excellent lesson. And to those ladies on the forum who helped with the suggestion, good for you. Smart move and a great lesson in life. Though some might not get the message entirely, I think some will eventually have an understanding. Isn't that what it's all about?

Thanks Ms. Research.

Today all but one of the kids showed up in the morning to milk. The rich boy of the group and he's lying parents have decided he's done enough work. They sent me a check of four hundred dollars, too which I seent back as not enough. There were some other words involved but nothing worth saying. They just don't understand the value of Guardian animals.

The rest of the kids are doing good, even the burly football kid is warming up to farm life. The girls love the lambs and one took up the duty of the extra lamb feeding. Scrubbed several large water drums today, with bleach in the air. Don't worry we rinse very well afterwards.

9 ewes and 15 lambs so far should only have six more ewe's giving birth in the next week or two.

The ponds and creek are getting a little low. Many of the tiny run off creeks are dry or just muddy.

We sent our two buck boers down south to the family farm to be part of the future breeding rams, Dinner is one lucky SOB, but it frees up some chores.
Got my friends two sows several days ago, they seem to like their large pen, which was the isolation pen for the sheep. Been dumping loads of walnuts, hickory, acorns, hazelnuts, and apples in the pigs pens. The pigs really love all these extra foods.
The piglets are chunking up fast.

 

[77Herford]

Oh, yeah going to breed my little pygmies. Also got two Nubians from the vet, that my wife brought home after talking to me. They were surrendered to the vet. They weren't mistreated, the previous owners just didn't have the money for them anymore so we'll foster them for awhile.

 

[redtailgal]

Wow, that would bite to have to give up the goats because I couldnt afford to care for them. It's good that these people were caring enough to admit their limitations and its good that there was someone to take them in.

I love nubes, so dont be shy about posting pics of them..........

 

[77Herford]

Well update from Farm 2 as I'm calling the Family Farm. My old friend has called, emailed and personally talked to all sorts of Goat people and the farm will soon be bustling with close to 100 Kiko does and another 100 Kiko/Boer does. We already had 5 Kiko bucks and 50 Boer Does.

I guess we'll get three Boer bucks above the age of four. The Kiko bucks won't be wasted and will do their job for a few years at least before we incorporate more Boer bucks as replacements, such as Dinner and Abel.

 

[77Herford]

Got ten Belted Galloway cow that are bred to a Belted Bull and should be calving in April. Also got twenty Charolais heifers and will be crossing them with my Hereford bulls.

 

[Ms. Research]

Well, the football player is making me eat my words. Glad to hear that. I would have thought he would be the worse of the bunch. Regarding the rich boy, well, that's par for the course. Mommy and Daddy trying to buy his way out of trouble. I would have done the same thing you did, and used the same wording.

Wow, lots of livestock coming to both your farms. Glad to hear you are doing well and getting Farm 2 up and running.

It's amazing. Some people have the brass to admit they can't take care of their animals. But to be responsible enough to get help for those animals even giving them up.... I applaud those people. With the economy the way it is right now, the animals are the last thing people who are financially strapped worry about. More cases here of animals being abandoned or let loose. So sorry to hear they had to give up their goats, but so glad they came to you and your wife where they will have a good life.

 

[jodief100]

Well update from Farm 2 as I'm calling the Family Farm. My old friend has called, emailed and personally talked to all sorts of Goat people and the farm will soon be bustling with close to 100 Kiko does and another 100 Kiko/Boer does. We already had 5 Kiko bucks and 50 Boer Does.

I guess we'll get three Boer bucks above the age of four. The Kiko bucks won't be wasted and will do their job for a few years at least before we incorporate more Boer bucks as replacements, such as Dinner and Abel.

You will need those bucks to make replacement does. Can I ask where you are getting the does? There are not many farms that have that many available at once.