Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

[misfitmorgan]

Thanks for the offer of help @Mini Horses but I am indeed on the "right" coast and it seems that I have a lot of supporters on the "wrong" coast. LOL I would keep @Southern by choice and family so busy they wouldn't have time for their own goats, they would just have to share mine; bet she's glad she lives so far away.

Yes, leveling is definitely next. But to add to my stress my son is getting married in 2 weeks and I can't find a dress so I am altering one my mom gave me. It has these little beads all over the bodice that do two things...get in the way of the sewing machine needle, and fall off. It seems that dresses these days are designed for those under the age of 16 and under the size of 8. I am neither. I didn't show off my midriff when I was in high school so why would I want to start at the age of 58 at my son's wedding ?

I ordered a dress I can't return that was custom made. It is too small, it looks awful, and their sage green is chartreuse. But it got here 7 days early and the website says my order is being processed. Eloping sounds really good but I guess it is too late for that. I think the dairy may be on hold for a few weeks.

We are more in the middle but still to far away to help...believe me we would be all over helping if we could.

That is exactly why i dont shop for clothes....i feel like i must be shopping for a 15 yr old twig when i go in the stores. The shirts are the worst, i see so many cute shirts and i pick them up and the back is all lace, or half gone, or there is a big mesh see thru band on the middle....im like really how many people do you think wanna walk about with bits hanging out that are over the age of 25.

i will be in the same boat soon, one of my best friends is getting married in August which means i have to shop for a dress

i hope you enjoy your son's wedding very much babs!!

 

[Latestarter]

Congrats to you, your family and your son A happy but sad time (despite or because of the dress too)... They grow up and move on so fast! Wishing him a successful life! The dairy will still be there waiting for you after the wedding.

 

[babsbag]

Whatever happened to the inspection lady and her boss?

Without going back and reading where I left off in a nutshell I was told that I don't need the passageway between the milking parlor and the milk room, the self closing door is fine. Her boss really gave it all back to her to deal with. They are not thrilled about the trailers as they are afraid they are not stationery, but again, they are making it up as they go and I had their verbal ok on the trailers in the beginning. Also, the yellow trailer was a permitted facility at one time. They want the trailers on concrete slabs, which isn't going to happen. I may meet them in the middle and pour concrete in the walkways between then but there will be skirting around the trailers so why would I waste money and pour concrete under them. Once I get them leveled I will invite them out to see then and I think they were realize that I will not be towing these around behind my truck.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Without going back and reading where I left off in a nutshell I was told that I don't need the passageway between the milking parlor and the milk room, the self closing door is fine. Her boss really gave it all back to her to deal with. They are not thrilled about the trailers as they are afraid they are not stationery, but again, they are making it up as they go and I had their verbal ok on the trailers in the beginning. Also, the yellow trailer was a permitted facility at one time. They want the trailers on concrete slabs, which isn't going to happen. I may meet them in the middle and pour concrete in the walkways between then but there will be skirting around the trailers so why would I waste money and pour concrete under them. Once I get them leveled I will invite them out to see then and I think they were realize that I will not be towing these around behind my truck.

i can see why they wouldnt want it towed around all over but do they really think your going to put all the work in to make it be water tight and spotlessly clean...then rattle it around behind a truck. Some times i dont think those government agencies use their common sense a whole lot. We deal with one government entity at work pretty much constantly and what knuckleheads they are.

 

[babsbag]

And the trailer will have skirting around it and permanent drains and water lines. So where am I taking this? One of them is 12' wide too so a special permit would be needed if I ever wanted to tow it anywhere. The other one weighs more than my truck. Now I will say that the bathroom is in an RV that could be towed but that was THEIR idea for solving my restroom dilemma since the dairy is below our septic tank.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I'm not really sure they can say anything about the rv being towed off...in the off season when the diary isnt in use but i have no clue how that would play out offically. i really dont get the logic either...your going thru a ton of work to get it clean, in order, level, water tight, plumbed, and skirted.....to tow it down the road DH would have laughed right in their face and asked if they thought about that before saying it? i understand they didnt actually say it but he is a very tall quite blunt man and would have picked up on any inference.

Glad its sorted out now it seems and cant wait for more pics....dont die in the heat!!

 

[babsbag]

Kidding season is officially over, last LM buckling was born yesterday.

29 does freshened this year with 23 bucklings and 24 doelings. I had three kids that were lost when Mango freshened and I was wedding dress shopping with my future DIL and I had one doe abort late term. Other than that no serious problems so I would say it was a successful year. Oh, and one born with a cleft palate (she is still with me).
I am keeping 2 Alpine doelings that are polled, 6 mini alpine doelings, 2 mini alpine bucklings, 2 LM doelings that were gifted to me, and possibly two other alpine doelings just because I can.

Time to be thinking about next year and time to pull my 2 bucklings from the does before there are any oops. Not sure how "seasonal" my minis are.

I will be breeding my yearling polled Alpine goats to my Nigi buck, my LMs to my LM buck, my minis to my mini bucks, and the rest is undecided. I want to send some Alpines to @ragdollcatlady so she can make me some mini bucklings that aren't related to any of my doelings. Wonder what she would say about that?

 

[Latestarter]

I'm sure she'd be thrilled... She may not want to give them back

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I want to send some Alpines to @ragdollcatlady so she can make me some mini bucklings that aren't related to any of my doelings. Wonder what she would say about that?

I am afraid I don't have anywhere to house any more goats at the moment....unless they want to live inside the clothes dryer or something. The beds are taken by cats, the dogs live in the kitchen, and every goat pen is full out here. The boers are eating me out of house and home and my nigi buck Backyard Swagger has an appointment to file down his destruction tools so he can stop tearing holes in the decrepit old dog run that is supposed to keep them in......BUUUUT...... I do happen to have an incredibly sweet little "Fra Gi Le" (it's french...or so I've been told )buckling that loves bottles of milk, moonlight frolicking and a good nap any time of day, that would be a great addition to your buck pen.....

 

[babsbag]

I hope you know that you are an absolute enabler.

That's the thing about these darn bucks if you keep any offspring eventually (in my case two years) you need a new buck. I like my bucks so I hate feeling like they are expendable. I have kept two mini bucks to breed back to their half sisters but if I keep any of those kids next year I will be looking for an unrelated mini buck which I won't have. So I guess I need to just stop keeping the offspring but there are always those ones that I REALLY like. And right now I am just playing with minis to see how they milk.

The other problem is how to sort all these bucks at breeding time. Two minis, one ND, one LM, and one Alpine. It will get crazy out there when they are all in rut. DH is supposed to build me a couple of small buck pens for breeding season but if I tell him I need 6 of them he will flip.