Pendergrass Ranch - Big changes!

[PendergrassRanch]

Some pretty goats. Don't ya love bucks? btw the little guy has some nice horns atop his head.

So you have seven goats now, eh? I think you have gotten more goats in a faster time then I have ever seen. It's good to have another goat crazy on here though. I can't wait until you get the breeds you really want. It's much funner that way. ha

I agree. I can't wait either. Although these little guys are nice to warm me up to goats. Might burn me out We shall see

I totally love this buck. Are they all this handsome? He is just such a beast!

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Does anyone else think the new does are pregnant? I know pygmys generally look that way all the time but that grey one just looks so heavy. The family still had one of her kids there and she was a very cute, flashy little thing.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Things move fast around here!

Drew and I were discussing adding a dog to our family. He wants a duck retriever so we had settled on a Flat coat.

Well turns out our good friends want to rehome their Weim/chocolate lab female because they can't give her the type of family home that she needs. They keep their dogs outside, in a kennel and NEVER in the house. So we are picking up this dog on wednesday to see if she fits with us. She is already an accomplished pheasant dog so hopefully being retrained for water retrieval won't be too difficult. She has met our dogs previously at friend functions and I know Gunner adores her. She is about the same age as Gunner as well!

Meet Miss Jody!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

That's sweet. She's a pretty dog.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Well things have been up and down here.

We lost a goat. The smallest Angora. He was fine friday night when I put them to bed, then I found him dead saturday morning. No symptoms except he had a really full stomach.

We lost a hen, my incredibly stupid crested polish. Found her drown in a very shallow water trough.

Our new dog is doing wonderfully. Took her on a very long quad riding, quail hunting trip in which she ran half the time. Didn't make her tired at all LOL

The other Angora goat has just about bought himself a one way ticket to freezer camp. He keeps squeezing through the TINY TINY chicken door. Seriously, this door is SO SMALL and he gets through and eats all the chicken food. No matter what I do, he gets in and I've just about had it. He also really doesn't like me. He LOVES everyone else but since I'm always the one catching him doing bad things, he has started to rear up at me and run away when I try to catch him. Oh and he ALSO got to my brussel sprout plants AGAIN and completely destroyed them this time.

We had a wonderful thanksgiving. I processed an extra drake that we had and roasted him. It turned out delicious! My dad brought fresh Dungeness crab for me and Drew made a mean deep fried turkey. We had a great time riding the quad and what not.

We went on a day trip saturday and I couldn't find my silkie roo when we got back that night. He was gone all day sunday, then strolled out of the hen house monday morning when I opened the door. I found him chilling with the goats today

This is the photo I snapped. He was face to face with one of the ND does but the dogs kind of scattered them.

My last remaining laying age hen finally recovered from the traumatizing massacre and started laying again. She laid 3 eggs in 4 days!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Wow you sure have a lot going on! Sorry about your losses.

One of your goats looks just like one of the first goats we ever had. Her name was Vera. She got into the corn bin one day and ate so much corn it was still coming out of her mouth 3 days later. lol Well, it wasn't funny at the time, we thought she was going to die. But man, that was a lot of corn and it makes me chuckle now thinking about it.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Sorry about your goat and chicken. Are you thinking really full as in bloated looking?

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Sorry about your goat and chicken. Are you thinking really full as in bloated looking?

We processed him for the dogs and his stomach was FULL. Packed to the brim and hard as a rock.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Wow, that stinks. Hope things get better for you. That crab sounds awesome-I haven't had that it so long and it is probably my favorite food.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Wow, that stinks. Hope things get better for you. That crab sounds awesome-I haven't had that it so long and it is probably my favorite food.

Besides those 2 things, everything else is going really well.

The crab is SO good. I stock up every season and I always make sure to have it on thanksgiving and christmas. I don't even eat the turkey LOL.