Changing goals and speed

[CntryBoy777]

Right after I made that post I had to feed the goats their morning snack and on the way to their house, Joyce let the ducks out....it was 37° here....and the ducks made a bee-line to the pool, lined up, and jumped in....it made me shiver to think about it. Congrats on the membership!!....I know nothing about the tatooing, tho I do have one....

 

[AClark]

I have lots of personal tattoos, and the equipment to do the goats, I just need the numbers I'm allowed to use from the ADGA and I'll knock it out.

No kidding about the ducks, I watch my goose and ducks jump right in the pool no matter how cold and nasty it is out. I'll pass, they can have their icy water! I have errands to run later on and need to get a shower so I don't have crazy homeless hair, but I'll wait until I'm done feeding so I don't have to go out the door with wet hair!

 

[Bruce]

No kidding about the ducks, I watch my goose and ducks jump right in the pool no matter how cold and nasty it is out. I'll pass, they can have their icy water!

Hmm, another reason for me to not get ducks, they would probably all fly into the swimming pool with great frequency! Though the "snacks" in the pond would be more enticing I suppose.

I have no doubt growing up in the desert is why I hate the cold so much.

I grew up in So. Cal. "Cold" was like 50° and it was 115° 3 days the week I moved to Vermont. I'm not all that excited about very cold temps, but I didn't care for the hot ones either and you can only take off so much clothing to cool off. Guess I'm a "middle of the road" kinda guy.

 

[AClark]

Exactly Bruce, thats the kind of weather I shine in. I'm more than happy to go outside and work (in jeans and boots) in 100+ temps. But if it's under about 70, nope!!! I can only put so much on to stay warm, and I'm one of those "always cold" people. Right now I'm in sweats with thick socks, I've been baking all day, and my feet are icy cold. It's like 75 in the house because I canned up my salsa and made 3 loaves of bread, but I still feel cold.

So, all my tomatillos and green tomatoes came up to 3 1/2 pints. The 1/2 went in the fridge in an open jar of green salsa. It's pretty good, nice and spicy with a lot of flavor though!

 

[Bruce]

75° is shorts and T-shirt weather! I suggest you get your body's thermostat checked, maybe it is stuck open and they can replace it with a new one

 

[AClark]

That might be. DH doesn't get cold like that at all, I'm still acclimating him to southern weather though. He suffers in the heat way more than I do.
My landlord does too, that poor guy sweats profusely if it's over 90, I don't even start to sweat unless the humidity is really high until it's around 95 or so. DH keeps telling me I'll get used to it and to stop bundling up as much as I do when it's slightly chilly, but even after 4 years in upstate NY all I did was freeze from September through May there.

So, I have about 4 lbs of apples I have to use up, time now! My daughter had a fall party and we got tasked with bringing two large containers of sliced apples. I don't think my idea of a large container and theirs were the same because they sent one of them home. There's 28 students in her class, so I cut up a bunch and sent about 8 qts of apples with her.
So, apple muffins, carrot apple bread, and maybe fritter bread if I don't run low. I love baking days, gets the house nice and warm!

 

[babsbag]

Our CA weather is just about perfect...for me... but more than the temps it is the rain that I hate. I HATE mud, period. No rain, no mud so having the dry summers fits me to a "t".

I had a couple of goats this last year that had horrible coats, flaky skin, and bald patches; they were also skinny. Barber pole worms are not an issue at my place but I did see some tape worm segments so I went with a three prong approach and no idea which one worked but they look amazingly better. I wormed them with valbazen (they were not bred) for tapes, used Cylence pour on in case there were lice or mites, and give them a Multi-min 90 (zinc, selenium, copper, magnesium) injection. Within a few weekks their coats were filling in, they had some shine to them, and they started to gain weight. Hopefully your new doe just needed wormed and some extra nutrition. You can always make her a coat for winter.

 

[AClark]

@babsbag I used Ivermectin, since it's relatively safe for anything pregnant - actually it was a tube of horse dewormer, since I buy that by the case. I have SafeGuard too but it's "too safe" and requires catching her up 3 days in a row and she still kind of looks at me like I'm sketchy. I really like Ivermectin, it takes a LOT of it to overdose with.
I dusted her with some pour on too. I didn't see any lice on her, but you never know. She's really enjoying being well fed twice a day and getting to graze from after breakfast until dinner time.
She has a bag, but no milk. She doesn't strike me as pregnant looking and I know she had a doeling on her a month ago or so, my friend kept the doeling. Athena was the bully there and she's at the bottom of the pecking order here. Funny how that works, she's the biggest pygmy I have.

 

[AClark]

DH decided to make a sign at work that we had eggs for sale. I expected maybe a dozen or two would get picked up, DH hadn't even posted the sign up yet but was talking to a co-worker and then he texts me at 5 PM and tells me "I need 5 dozen eggs tomorrow". Wait, what? I had my baking day yesterday and used up a dozen already...
I ended up with 2 eggs left, good thing I don't need any. Then when he gets home he says "I think we need more chickens" - music to my ears! He's finally seeing what I was suggesting all along. The chickens almost paid for their feed this month in 1 day.

Maybe it's because I found DH a Dewalt miter saw the other day. Someone was giving it away because they were moving, and while it's a really old one, it came iwth it's own table and all we had to do was pick it up. I tested it out and it works great!

 

[CntryBoy777]

It's really nice when things workout like that....we have a hard time just giving them away....and some only want them if they are chicken eggs....it's bad when people are picky over free eggs...