MrsDieselEngineer's Herd Journal

[rascal]

My DH works for Military Sealift Command, he's not in the military but works for them. He's a Chief Engineer on board supply ships.

Daisychick, Normally he's gone for 4-5 months at a time and home for a month in between, but this time he gets almost 2 months off
It is hard, but it makes him coming home like a honeymoon over and over again And who doesn't like that?! LOL

Contractor! Good deal! I'm trying to talk mine into it after he gets out. Sadly I kinda miss my "ME" time during deployment. Lol. Two months... just enough to enjoy him before his drives ya nuts! Hehehe Cograts

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Sure has been a busy week! Enjoying having DH home, and we've got lots of catching up to do

Goats are all doing well, everyone got trimmed and we only had a couple minor rodeos But out of 16 goats (I think that's how many we have...) only two were hard to trim. Our big boy Casanova is SOOOO good with getting his feet trimmed, he just stand there and has never even tried to pull his foot away I'm really glad we decided to use this buck, he might not be perfect (close though!) but his temperament more than makes up for it. He's gentle with the girls but gets the job done!

It looks like we only have more more doe to kid this year, then everyone will be kidding in March/April if they took. Casanova has bred almost all the does, just waiting for two more to come into heat. We'll have two dairy does for milk next spring! We have Bee, the Oberhasli and now Amelia, the Toggenberg.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Man, That Amelia is an amazing "little" critter! I swear she has to have some whitetail in her DNA. That stance, that alertness, that color, that pin straight/super erect tail

Technically you have 3 dairy girls... you could more than likely count Bonnie(Boer x Nigerian - said for those who don't know) in that catagory... she already has sprouted a nice little udder, and it is by no means done yet

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Yup, that's true! She just might end up a good milker

 

[Livinwright Farm]

If she can keep up with our Momma or surpass her, then she will be in decent ranking. At her height, Momma was giving us 1 1/2 Qts per day... Wish I could get her back up to that now, but she has started the slow decline.

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Update! I finally got up the courage to attempt tattooing DH held Sparkle while I fussed over readying her and then finally just did it! First ear went smoothly, second ear the poor kid screamed But it was over quick and both ears have good solid tattoos!!! Next up was Casanova, after searching his ears in vain for tattoos we decided to go ahead and do him too. He's such a sweetheart, DH held him firmly and Cass just flinched but that was all. Both ears went smoothly

Sparkle has been sold and is off to a new home early Thanksgiving morning to help get a family over in VT started in Boers. I'll miss having her around.... but she'll have a good home.

 

[elevan]

Happy Thanksgiving MrsDieselEngineer

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Happy Thanksgiving Eleven! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We had a great day with DH's family with lots of wonderful food.

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

After 11 inches of the cold wet stuff (snow), the goats aren't too happy about it. But I told them it isn't going to hurt them and I'm not feeding them inside on a beautiful day.... took some persuasion! LOL
Got outside with the camera, so lots of pictures

Casanova would have stayed in but since the girls were leaving without him...

Here are a few of some of the girls...
First is Bonnie (NDxBoer mix)

and Dandy, commercial Boer (I have no clue what percentage)

Part of the herd:

Hunter is our guard Donkey, and Levi is the pony in training

Levi's eye, he's very curious...

Hunter

Sorry, no pictures of Skeet (the only kid at the moment) or the Dairy does. They were in the barn.

 

[Ms. Research]

Thanks for sharing!

Yes Casanova looks miserable. Glad you informed him he can't melt in snow and not miss a pretty day outside.

Love the pic of Dandy. Looks like he's smiling. Also Bonnie. Love the ears and the smile

Close up of Levi's eye is exquisite. Always love horse's eyes. So soulful.

Beautiful herd. Again thanks for sharing.