Goatgurl - life goes on at someday farm

[NH homesteader]

Oh I would love to see them, I hope you can figure out why you can't post! I get my chicks the week of May1st... So soon! Turkeys due to hatch the 25th, then chickens a week later!

Good to knoe about the NH's. Mine might be stashing eggs, I think we'll find out when I fence everyone back in (which I will do before I plant the garden but they will still have a huge area).

 

[Baymule]

Sometimes I can't post pictures and finally figured out that I had to resize them.

 

[Latestarter]

I loved my New Hampshires. They were from Murray McMurry and they were my best layers. They did like to lay in the deep litter though so they may be hiding them from you.

 

[NH homesteader]

I have a Dominique that does that too. If they're hiding them, it isn't in the coop.

 

[goatgurl]

actually got a picture to load. I have a question for all you rabbit raisers out there. this 4 month old young man is a fg/nz cross whos ear tips for some reason has started to flop over. no lop blood and if it were lop wouldn't it break at the head? any ideas why?
meet marco. he is an 11 month old maremma who has come to help Katie out on predator control. he had been with sheep but had never seen goats or poultry so has had a bit of learning to do. he and Katie are about the same height but he is heavier built than she is and has a big masculine bark. he's a sweety and pretty darn smart.

 

[NH homesteader]

I love Marco! I love maremmas and he is gorgeous!

 

[CntryBoy777]

I like the tips on the ears....gives him character....but, I certainly am not a rabbit person, I know nothing about them. Marco is a fine looking dog too, he has really good eyes.

 

[Baymule]

Marco is so handsome!! Don't you just love that deep booming BOOF!!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Very handsome boy goatgurl!
I think he's the the "prettiest" (handsome) meremma I've seen yet.

So how many goats do you have left now?

 

[goatgurl]

yes @Baymule, i do love that boof, boof, boof. when you look at how big he is you tend to forget there is a big puppy hiding in all that fur until you see ducks and chickens flying for their lives. he has never, knock on wood, been aggressive with them but he does love to run full tilt thru the middle of them with that goofy puppy grin on his face to see how fast and high they can fly. of course i have to scold him and tell him what a bad boy he is but secretly i laff a little under my breath. it may take him a while to be a dog but we've got nothing but time.
@Goat Whisperer i have 3 adults, 3 yearlings that i didn't breed and pretty had a set of twin bucks. that's it. i can't remember when in the last 30 years I've had that few. i can't tell you how hard it has been to let go. young lady i want you to make sure you enjoy every second of your goat raising, showing and all the other adventures you have coming up in your life because all to soon it will be over and done. all you'll have left is memories so make sure they're good ones. ok enough of that...
well today is day 4 of the "a red wasp stung me on my face" adventure. i can finally open and see out of my right eye again so that's all good. i am no longer drunk on Benadryl and sleeping 22 hours a day so that's good too. i didn't have a true anaphylactic reaction this time and i'm almost back to normal, well as normal as i ever am. life is good.
played musical pens with a bunch of the critters today. chessie the chicken, who was run over by a herd of marauding goats and got her leg broken has been convalescing in the truck pen, which is the cage we put in the back of the truck to haul animals but had to be moved up to the dog kennel so mama duck and her 4 baby ducks could move there. then the bacon bit who has been living in the dog kennel to wean him from his mama had to be moved back in with his mom, it's ok, she won't let him nurse anymore and has an appointment in about 10 days to go on vacation to freezer camp. choco is in the back pen, sheep are out to pasture mostly and the goats are in and out. hope everyone gets resettled quickly.
put 10 duck eggs under one of the dark Cornish hens today. she has been insisting on setting on a pink plastic egg no matter how many times i toss her off. ok, lets see if she has the patience to sit for 35 days and then raise a bunch of water loving ducks. aren't i mean