Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[SheepGirl]

Happy Birthday!!

 

[promiseacres]

Happy birthday! Hope its a great one!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Thanks everyone for the warm birthday wishes! I had a wonderful day with Bon and some other friends. We had a delicious lunch and then went shopping afterwards. Bon and I splurged and got some cool outfits. I got a long teal sweater vest, and a wool plaid coat! Very retroish. So we had a fun day!

So this story is for Straw in case he is interested:
When I got home there was a car parked and a couple of middle-eastern guys were waving and smiling. I knew this couldn't be good, lol. So I asked them if they bought something and the smiling said "Yes, we bought 2 goats." I said, "oh baby ones?" "NO older." "Oh, to eat?" "Yes" "OH," I replied, "well I don't want to know which ones. I'll go in the house now." They were actually really nice and they had their teenage son with them and he came up and shook my hand and they were all just smiling away.

After they left, I asked Tim and he said yes, they bought two of the wether goats and they slaughtered them there Halal style (they were Palestinians) and they didn't waste any part of the goat, they took everything and were going to use every bit.. OKay. I was OKAY with this, unbelievably. Well, you know how I feel about the goats anyways...they don't have names I was OKAY with it! I thought wow, the goats were going to auction anyways and this was far less scary for them then having to go to auction and then god knows where from there. So I've changed my position on slaughtering animals at the farm. Plus, Tim got $2.20 a pound for them, which is probably more than what he would get at auction. So it's all good.

I just don't want to be here when they do it.

Tomorrow night Tim, Ruth and I are going out for dinner and I can wear my new outfit and necklace.

 

[Southern by choice]

Yep..it all works out! Good for you all, nice price for on the hoof!
Weird though...halal usually requires intact males. But we won't say anything.

 

[Bridgemoof]

My bad, it wasn't Halal. You're right Southern.

 

[CocoNUT]

Ok Ok OK...I'm sorry I'm so late to the party!
All these minutes...spent picking through wool...and you NEVER told me your bday was today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bridge! Happy Birthday Roving too! Evil's bday is on Wednesday and mine is next week! Feb is an AWESOME month for b-days! I'm glad you're having such a good day! Maybe these palestinian guys will become 'regulars' huh? That'd be nice.
Ok...off to catch up...I haven't been online for the past few days....
and....
Happy BIRTHDAY TOOOO YOUUUUUU! Happy BIRTHDAY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUUUUU. HAAAAAAAPEEEEEEE Birthhhhhhhhhhhhhdaaaaaaaaaaaaaay dear BRIDGE.....HAAAAAPY Birthdaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!
All the monkeys in the zoo send their very best to you...happy birthday to you!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Bridge - That whole story cracked me up. The smiling and you saying you're going in now. lol

Slaughtering isn't bad and and doing at the farm like that is best. They aren't stressed out either.

btw $2.20????????? OMG I wish I could get that for "meat" goats. I'd be so scared to take them to auction because nobody pays money!! You got a wonderful price...

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh major bummer! We lost triplet boers that were born some time during the night. Yesterday Tim thought this doe looked like she was bagging up a whole bunch so we brought her and the whole Kiko Joe bunch up to the barn. We put them all on the catwalk because there was no place else really to put them, but at least we could keep an eye on her and put her in s stall today. Well, I went out at 6 a.m to check on everybody, but didn't look on the catwalk because it's too hard to get to in the dark. I went back this morning around 7:45 and took a look. There were 3 babies on the ground not moving! I quickly ran and got Tim and we grabbed the babies to put them under a heat lamp. One was moving! The other two were dead already. We tried to get the one warmed up but it didn't make it. Clearly they just froze when they hit the ground. It was really cold last night and they were small to begin with because they were trips. Oh so sad! We lost all three! That would have been our first set of triplets, too.

 

[20kidsonhill]

That really stinks, We had that happend about 2 weeks ago, we had them in the barn locked up and new they were close, but I just don't have many does kid at night and sure enough two does kidded, with 5 kids. We had a heck of a job in the morning getting them going. We did end up loosing one of them and tube fed 3 of them for a couple of days. Very sorry you lost yours. We decided we had to be a little more attentive and should have put them in kidding stalls with the warming barrels on them. But we really rarely have them kid at night. That was 16 does kidding for us this year so far and none of the others kidded at night. Last year I kidded out 23 does, and I honestly don't remember any of them kidding in the middle of the night. Sorry for your frustrations.

 

[Southern by choice]

That really stinks bridge. So sorry! Maybe Tim will get it... too many and not enough adequate space. hopefully he will connect the dots!
I know you take all this to heart Bridge.