rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

Time to sync some does.

Very dairy Pete about to start rut and worry me sick.

Kenai giving me the "I may blubber at you" look. I think he was fine last year and didn't, but never trust a buck in rut... He comes over and stands like this fairly normally when I get out the phone. He probably likes attention. Somebody please tell him this is not the type of goat pics I'm looking for. Clearly he wants me to set him up a goat online dating profile...

And Aramis the rumpy doesn't like new or any pics.

 

[SageHill]

Kenai is hilarious!

 

[murphysranch]

I burst out laughing!!!!!!!

 

[rachels.haven]

Discovered today that Pete's dam was appraised 92 EEEE...someday the data will get loaded to ADGA genetics so I can see them. I guess he's special too. He thinks so.

So our milk has picked up a nasty flavor lately. It has a taste, but the aftertaste like burns the sinuses...so today we picked up some cow milk for the Shaun and tomorrow I have some orchard rolls coming in in case it's related to fat : protein inversion...and I changed feed, but it doesn't seem to have helped. And I ordered some sweetlix meat maker from a local mill and we'll pause using the premier1 premix for a while. And I can put out some baking soda. Lots of changes but they won't get implemented all at once.

 

[Baymule]

Could it be the nasty water?

 

[SageHill]

Could it be the nasty water?

That’s what I was thinking.

 

[rachels.haven]

Gee, I hope not. They are drinking it. The string filter is taking out most of the sediment and it's going through a carbon filter and UV sterilizer but we are still waiting on our water test results to see if it's actually working on the stuff we mostly can't see. Come on, water test.

(...and yes, still on bottled water in the house)

 

[Baymule]

My community water does not taste good. I buy bottled water. My sheep smelled it and walked away in disgust but finally had to drink it. There is a pond, but I’ve never seen them drink out of it. They come back to their pen for a drink.

 

[rachels.haven]

Mark, being a man, decided to taste the water last night and declared it delicious, better than the bottled water . "That water test had better hurry up" was the general sentiment.
Considering there can be more than bad taste in water, yeah, it had better hurry up. I guess we'll see if he gets sick from the water again.
There's also the option of strange weeds as pasture is a weed plot and that they are/were eating the paint off the shelter. So they have baking soda now, and will be getting orchard grass tonight hopefully to rule out acidosis. The sweetlix mineral will be coming this week, and we're still waiting on the fence installers to get to us and when they do I'll decide if I'm rounding up the field or just over seeding (field is clover and fescue and random weeds, supposedly endophyte free fescue, but last owner appears to have been a lazy bimbo so...maybe it was endophyte free if it was easy and cheap enough).

 

[farmerjan]

Endophyte free fescue is more expensive, requires diligent working up of the ground and does not reseed well... it also will cross with "regular fescue" so if this is a stand more than 2 years old... it has the endophyte fescue in it now... The only reason a horse person would plant it was if they had pregnant mares... it can cause abortion in horses and cattle.... BUT... they have to basically be forced to eat it because there is nothing else since it does not taste good until it is frosted and the starches turn to sugars... they will eat it when young and very tender, then just not eat it for months... then it makes great winter grazing and the toxicity is lowered... and it is not toxic when made into hay... still, it is great for steers and non-reproductive animals... after a frost , for fall/winter grazing... have not read up on the effect on sheep or goats.