MrsDieselEngineer's Herd Journal

[elevan]

No hurry to bring back the coat, they don't really fit the boers anyways...

The woodstove is going full blast this afternoon and tonight, and it sure feels good It's our only source of heat and it does a great job!

Hey, looking for a nice Wood stove for a Christmas present for my friend. Are the ones at Lehman's any good or do you recommend any.
It will be a rustic Log Cabin with 1 1/2 story's and the wood stove will be used for cooking as well.

Lehmans is great! They are located about 40 minutes from me. I love going in there and browsing around and shopping.

 

[77Herford]

No hurry to bring back the coat, they don't really fit the boers anyways...

The woodstove is going full blast this afternoon and tonight, and it sure feels good It's our only source of heat and it does a great job!

Hey, looking for a nice Wood stove for a Christmas present for my friend. Are the ones at Lehman's any good or do you recommend any.
It will be a rustic Log Cabin with 1 1/2 story's and the wood stove will be used for cooking as well.

Lehmans is great! They are located about 40 minutes from me. I love going in there and browsing around and shopping.

I am SO envious. I only get to ogle from the interweb. I would of thought more people on here used Wood burning cook tops as so many seem to be trying to live off the grid.

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

77Herford wrote:
I am SO envious. I only get to ogle from the interweb. I would of thought more people on here used Wood burning cook tops as so many seem to be trying to live off the grid.

I'm jealous as well! I love looking through Lehman's catalog and online!

Oh, and we're looking for a wood cook stove too Although I do cook on top of the soapstone stove we have, you just have to be very careful.

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Looks like Ruger might have a touch of mastitis.... Her left side has hard lumps and the kid isn't sucking from it at all. I milked her out this morning and again this evening, massaging the lumps out but there is one near the tip of the teat that is going to take some work. Ugh.

Good news is that the kid is doing great and is quite the friendly little thing. Trying to decide if she really had a boer father or not... I remembered I had a Toggenberg buck for about a week before the Boer buck arrived and the Togg did get in with the girls for a day, a couple days before the Boer. What do you all think? Does she look like she has Togg in her? Her color doesn't look true boer to me but then she is only 75% boer anyways! LOL, goats are fun

 

[77Herford]

Don't see any Togg.

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Well, we have 12" of snow
It just seems too early for this to be starting! But at least we didn't get the 21" of snow my brother got 2 hours from here

 

[Ms. Research]

Now that's a lot of snow. Just got a little dusting here in New Jersey. Only a few patches left due to the rain after the snow.

Yes I'm with you on the "way too early" for snow. Could this be any indication of what we have in store for us this winter? :/

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

I hope not... although the old farmers almanac did predict a wet winter. Which probably translates into snow.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

It depends on where you sit. The map that the F.A. has for this winter is hard to read for the Ossipee area.. we are either going to have wet and cold, or cold and mild... hoping it will be just cold & mild!
The weather history for NH shows that if we get snow in October, then the rest of the winter will be mild in regards to accumulation... here's hoping that's the way it works out this year!

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Here's hoping to a mild winter!!

Good news! Ruger's case of Mastitis cleared up, no hard lumps and milk is clean Skeet won't nurse on that side though... and because I've been milking her out quite frequently that side is needing to be milked. Not really a bad thing but not planned on. She gave me two cups this morning and by the looks of her udder this afternoon we're going to have another two cups tonight! So, a full quart a day. Not bad for a boer

Weighed the babies this morning, Sparkle is 30 lbs (8 weeks) and Skeet is 10lbs (4 days). You can almost watch them grow from day to day

Anyone know how to build a good solid creep feeder? I tried using a cattle panel and snipped one horizontal bar out and found out that a 225lb buck can squeeze through a 6 x 12 inch hole.... horns and all. and that 10 goats CAN fit in a 3' x 4' area. They looked like a can of sardines... haha! Extracting them I almost needed a pry bar