rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

And thanks guys, for the compliments. I'm trying to keep them healthy and nice looking and keep nice stock, especially in the buck pen. The goats on average aren't anywhere near as fatty as the ones I saw at the Franklin show though, so I probably still have a lot to learn (not sure I want to though, I'm happy with where we are herd wide average body conditon score-wise).

 

[Mini Horses]

In the goats and sheeps' defenses, the bunks look like beds. It kind of makes me wonder if cows and horses do any better w

Oh, in the sun, those black bunks are a heated bed
Goats love to be "up" on something. My mini horses - they never jump in, only crowd around.

Yep, sheep & goats always think they're starving!!

 

[SageHill]

Damn - you all had to start going on about sheep in the bunks. Yeah, my lambs hop in and as they get older they stop hopping in. In the big stall I've got a 10 and a 5 foot bunk. In the regular stalls either a 10 footer or two 5 footers. But enough of that. Today -- it's all your faults ---- I caught the ram with his front feet in the bunk. Dang - was doing sooooo good until ...............

 

[Baymule]

My hairy piranhas plop their front feet in the bunk, like they are belly up to the bar!

 

[rachels.haven]

*Sigh* Riker had put a other opossum in the barn at evening check around 8 (one of the does due the 17 needs evening feed or acts sick the next day so I was there to see the abduction happen). Bailey went over and sniffed it to approve their new pet. It's probably the same possum.
Weird dogs. Totally wrong. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Btw, possums can totally move quickly if they feel like it, like if they think they can escape Riker. Not quickly enough though.
I was cold and tired and wasn't able to corner it with my bucket so I left it in an empty stall and I'll try again at daylight.

 

[Baymule]

Wait, he brings live possums to the barn? Not dead ones to show you how hard he’s working? I knew he was a screwball, but this is hilarious! Probably not to you, but it’s darn sure funny to me!

 

[rachels.haven]

@Baymule
yes! I've got to make it stop raining possums!

 

[Baymule]

If your dogs want pets, get them a kitten and it will grow up to be a barn cat-if they don’t eat it!

 

[rachels.haven]

No, they want to eat those (Riker specifically)I guess possums just have that musky charm? (Rip neighbor's fed feral cats)

Here is the pic I took last night in the "cold" (turning into a weather weenie)

 

[Baymule]

Cats around here are kitty snacks. Coyotes, owls, hawks, make cats disappear. My dogs haven’t been raised with cats and would probably eat them too.