rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

Yes, the straws are in goblets on canes (aka beakers on a stick). I need to get the handling and AI equipment, but basically long tweezers are used to work with the straws. There are a few more pieces of equipment involved with goat AI that I haven't gotten yet, but the opportunity to get the tank and semen arose for a very good price so I took it while it was there.

Dan announced tonight that he wants dairy bull juice in the tank. I'm not sure how he thinks we'd turn that into a cow. It's not like you put a bull straw into a doe and get him his own calf. We still only have goats...unless this is a continuation of his plan to replace my goats with his dairy cattle herd. Maybe someday he'll get his darn cow. But I like my goats.

 

[Baymule]

Jerseys are kinda small…… OK a little bigger than a goat, but get that boy a cow!

 

[Bruce]

If Dan's infatuation with having cows continues will you have space for them at the new farm?

 

[rachels.haven]

Maybe one or two of the toy minis. Hay is very cheap here, but we are only a 6 acre lot and about a third of that is people yard. I guess we'll have a tank to store bulls in. No shipper, but I hear those can be rented to get straws here. It has to be the right cow though. I'm a stickler for disease testing and temperament.

 

[rachels.haven]

Also, a cow is a fair bit bigger than a goat. I take that increase in livestock size very seriously. Those few hundred pounds are a big leap.

 

[Baymule]

Are you there yet?

 

[rachels.haven]

Are you there yet?

We just got back last night. Everything looks great. I got some hay, opted for softer orchard grass. The pens are up, although the big doe pen is smaller than I'd like because I ran out of time, but I will fix that probably the first week I'm there. The transporter that's taking Bailey, Mr. Tank, and the goats will be here on Wednesday and will get them there the next day. I am jealous. We will start our trek out with the barn cats and the little dogs at the latest on Saturday after the movers get done with us. My parents will be doing goat and Bailey duty until they arrive.

The whole pasture is fenced with field fencing with 2 strands of barbed wire at the bottom and one at the top so stretching fence may not need to happen yet. Instead I will focus on clearing off and running electric wire on what I have.

In person the house is spacious like DH likes (to clean? ), there is a fenced in kid area that need a little work out front, and the pasture and out buildings are more than plenty for me to set up our dairy goat herd.

Time to get the little dogs back from boarding...if they'll come home. They were already having a blast before we left.

I have the new places' well house on my mind. The new place is city water, but the old well and we'll house is still there and it needs to be closed off lest Danger Dan tries to "find the bottom of the hole" and we weren't able to establish if it was covered or opened due to lack of good flashlight and how dark it was in there. BUT there are a lot of little things like that to stress over. So that will just be my first priority for later.

 

[Bruce]

there is a fenced in kid area that need a little work out front,

Is there a fence made that can contain Danger Dan??

 

[rachels.haven]

Is there a fence made that can contain Danger Dan??

Both boys respect electric. Neither have been shocked by it before.
I may just put up a piece of permanent plywood. Or brick it shut, since the well house is cinder block. I have time to decide.

 

[Baymule]

This is wonderful. Back among real people, not the rude (I don’t know what to call them) ok I got it! Imitation human beings! You don’t have to put up with them any more!