Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[Bridgemoof]

Thank you GoatCRazyLady! I'm glad to see I have at least one follower, lol.

I'll try to post some goat antics since you are obviously a goat crazy lady! lol

 

[GoatCrazyLady]

lol That would be awesome. Thank ya.

 

[jodief100]

Wow! You have a lot of excitement. I love your property, it is beautiful. The sheep are adorable.

 

[Bridgemoof]

LOL Jodi, "excitement" is a nice way of putting it. I would call it "chaos."


Tim came up with a new name for our "unihorn." He named him "Genius." As in "Way to go, Genius." "Nice going, Genius." "Get out of the way, Genius."

Genius is our kinda sorta rescue goat. Tim was going to pick up some Craigslist goats one day, and the guy said his neighbor had a couple of goats he wanted to get rid of. So Tim came home with these poor, pathetic old goats. "Unihorn" has the one horn that we are debating removing since it's covering his eye. Our vet said that we can remove it safely without hurting him if we get far enough away from his head. But I don't want any bloody surprises. He pretty much comes and goes as he pleases around the barnyard. He limps around, despite Tim trying to fix any hoof problem, so he's no great threat at escaping. Well, Genius's buddy, the old black goat, was no genius either, because one day he decided to lay down and take a nap under Tim's truck tire. Well, he ended up getting run over and is now in our freezer.

I don't have much to do in the barnyard since all the sheep are out on pasture. I only have to feed the alpaca and the pregnant goats, then later we'll feed the horses when Tim gets home.

 

[autumnprairie]

Love your journal and the property is beautiful. waiting for your next entry

 

[Bridgemoof]

Well today is D-Day for the ducks. Eight out of the ten pekin ducks will go into the new freezer that Tim got on Craigslist (for free, no less). Now that we got the freezer, a lot of things can go bye-bye. So the last couple of days 2 of the ducks have been hanging off by themselves. There has been an increasing amount of duck angst in the barnyard since I think their hormones are starting to arise. The roosters are bad enough on the hens, but sheesh, the ducks are really bad on each other. One poor female duck was trying to get water, and 3 other ducks had her pinned down and were on top of her grabbing her neck and dunking her in the water. I don't feel sad about harvesting the ducks, they all look identical, don't have names, and they make a HUGE mess around every water trough. I have a sled/saucer out there for them that I refill about 10 times a day because they make a muddy mess out of the water. Nope, I won't miss them at all. And I'm looking forward to a nice duck dinner!

But the 2 ducks, last night they wouldn't go into their regular stall with the others. They came up to the front stable and went into one of the stalls up there. Tim said "They picked the right night to opt out, those two!" And they did. Because today their friends will be slaughtered. I thought we could keep just those two, since I haven't seen them lay any eggs yet, and maybe eventually they will breed and have baby ducks. That's what we do best around here. Breed. lol

I went to go feed the pheasants this morning in their new flight cage, and ruh roh. One, two, three, four, five six, seven...shouldn't there be eight? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...I counted again. Oh noes, something got a pheasant. Darn weasels! Or whatever mysterious animal can squeeze through tiny holes in cages. So I guess today we will be making that cage more secure, among other things.

We have to take the bengal tiger cat to the vet this morning to get his testicle worked on. He wasn't allowed to eat this morning, poor kitty. Then it's come home and work on my publication that's due on Monday.

I have to get busy painting my new produce cart, too, because fall is in the air and gourd time is coming! I have 15 or 16 birdhouse gourds that are growing in the back garden. The other day, though, our goats got into them, jumped over THAT fence, and started eating the vines. Thank goodness they didn't eat the gourds themselves. I have big plans for those gourds!

Okay, off to take care of a few things before we leave for the vet.

 

[GoatCrazyLady]

OofTa... Does sound to be a bit chaotic. I don't know how you do it. I haven't had duck in years. Sounds yummy. Good luck at the vet today.

 

[Bridgemoof]

I'm supposed to be working on my publication, but my other computer keeps crashing, so I figured I would just come outside with my laptop and blog.

Yesterday the duck processing went well. Lencho did all 8 ducks. That man is the best! He can do anything, except organize. He's no good at that. As in, "go organize the tool shed." Pfft, forget it. Hes about as organized as Tim. But hard labor, he's the man! So we figured at his hourly rate, we paid about $5.00 per duck. I'm not sure if that's a good price or not, but I think if you go to buy a duck in the store, it's a lot more than that. So I had him save the livers, because I thought we could probably make some good pte. I absolutely hate liver though. And the smell of it makes me sick, but I didn't want those good parts going to waste, so we will try and make something out of it. Inkabod, our Catahoula Leopard dog, found some delicious crunchy duck feet to munch on. That was a spectacle, seeing the duck foot sticking out of his mouth. ew.

So we didn't have a chance to deliver the liver...Snowcap's liver that we are taking to the vet to get biopsied. I am going to take it today, and hope to God I don't get the duck livers and the sheep liver mixed up because our biopsy report might come back with "These sheep have something very wrong, they can swim!" lol I don't want to look in the bags to get the right one, but I guess I have to.

The cat is doing good! The new vet we took him to, an Aussie gal, operated on him again and said the other vet did leave part of his testicle in there. Oh man. So overall, this neutering has cost us $470.00 Tim's going to write to the other vet and try and get reimbursed for their botch job. But overall, the cat seems to be feeling much better now, and he looks better, too.

We tightened up the security on the pheasant run, and they were all accounted for this morning. Whew on that.

Oh, and 2 Mexican ladies came by yesterday and bought some chickens from us. They've bought a couple roosters in the past, but they said the foxes got them. Well, I thought they were looking for laying hens, but after talking to Tim, they left with 4 roosters. That's fine by me, less rooster angst! And I don't care if they eat them, we got $10.00 a piece for them, and that's pretty darned good!

I went and checked on the sheep at the creek this morning. They are all doing good. Mac the Tunis lamb is still limping a bit, but doing better than a few days ago. Those Tunis sheep always have foot problems! If he's not better in a few days, we'll bring him back up to the barnyard and work on his hoof.

Today, Tim is bugging me to call my mortgage company and see if I can get $100,000 in equity out of it to buy another house and rehab it and sell it. I hate when he gets so intent on spending other people's money. He loves to be a control freak and tell other people how to do things. If he were so successful, he'd be rich. And he's not. End of story. He doesn't have a pot to piss in.

Okay, now it's off to work again. Later gators!

 

[BrownSheep]

You should send those ladies my way! I would be happy if I could give my roosters away!

 

[Southern by choice]

I read your journal and love it. Guess maybe I should have posted and told you so...........
Unicorn is a mess!