FergusonK's journal - Goodbye Java Jewel.

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Trade favors/labor. You'll all be happy! We have a friend who always helps when we ask him to (mostly with heavy things, he is much stronger than me lol) but won't ever ask for help. So my husband goes down to his house and tells him what he's going to help him with, haha.

That leaping goat picture is amazing!
 

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We used to swap "day for a day" stuff with my sister and her husband, they have a tractor. With him being down in his back after recent surgery that has been postponed and lots of things I physically can't help with have been pushed back. mostly work on the house....

We shall see. We need to be best of friends with these neighbors, we're the youngest couples in our community and were the same age. We will be neighbors a LONG time.
 

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Mama hen and her chicks met their ends today....they fell in the horse trough. :barnieThere's chicken waterers all over the place. I don't get it.

The other chickens are doing fine. This is why I used to pen them all up.
Ugh.

Connie and Maddie ate most of them. The survivors know better than to go in the fenced areas.

Tonight is also the first night the kids are on their own. Ladybug and Katydid are being transitioned to the bottle , I have their mothers milk bottled so they can continue on it until we get them fully switched onto formula. June starts her DHIR testing next week and I need her to not have the kids on her. Karma's kids, Dharma and Integrity, will be transitioned to a bottle as well. Prudences kids will not. I'll let her raise them as I don't plan on milking her this time and I'll be selling her, and the rest of the Boer goats, in a month or so anyway. Lilly is so obese she looks like she's about to have quads or quints. She's not even bred. She's just FAT. Poppy was bred to Richard for April kids.

Zinnia and Morgan have started getting baby bellies. They have two+ months to go but have already started filling in. :) Zinnia had had four sets of twins and Morgan is a FF.

We will be placing them on DHIR as well. We will only have nine does total on the test this year, so far.

Show season kicks back off on the 14th. I can't wait to see what this upcoming year brings us
 
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