rachels.haven's Journal

[Ramblin Farms]

Do you

Still have the extra tank with the nubian semen for sale

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Can you install french drains to help route the water away from the barn?

 

[Mini Horses]

Can you install french drains to help route the water away from the barn?

My thoughts, also. I have property with slight, slow drop to rear as you do. A carport I use for shade in summer and hay shelter in winter, out in a pasture...can get puddled with heavy rains. In my case, I made a shallow ditch to catch and redirect the excess. Since it wasn't a drive area, I didn't have to go full french work. But that may be an option for you.

Animals just hop over mine...

 

[rachels.haven]

Do you

Still have them extra tank with the nubian semen for sale

I don't, but I know someone who might still have one if you don't mind connecting with them over FB.

 

[rachels.haven]

Can you install french drains to help route the water away from the barn?

My thoughts, also. I have property with slight, slow drop to rear as you do. A carport I use for shade in summer and hay shelter in winter, out in a pasture...can get puddled with heavy rains. In my case, I made a shallow ditch to catch and redirect the excess. Since it wasn't a drive area, I didn't have to go full french work. But that may be an option for you.

Animals just hop over mine...

The bad news is that the barn already had a drainage system that looks a lot like french drains already. It may be old though. We still need to do something else as well. Maybe a ditch, maybe raising the barn ground level with a gravel pad and stall mats. It's not rebuilding a barn, at least.

Buck, buck, doe twins for Hera in the early morning. She didn't know what to do with them so the herd cleaned them off. Doe at the bottom .

 

[rachels.haven]

One Hera rear udder, only a few days fresh. Now she's up over 4 lbs per milking and the congestion on the right side has subsided. Her foreudder is nice too. It's very nicely blended. She's still rumpy from kidding here.

I also did some of this.

And I listed this bred doe...

And this one in the middle because I'm bringing in a special lamancha buckling and need funds.

And also Lace because we are at the time in our yearly cycle of our love-hate relationship where she and I both hate each other. Goat hormones. Pretty sure she's going to give me another single buck if she stays so she'd better get on out so she can give someone else a doe. She is a month until due.

And now I'm just going to bottle feed goats and get over this stomach bug.

 

[rachels.haven]

7 year old Eri can't be left out. She's up to a little over 2 lbs per milking or 4 lbs per day.

 

[Baymule]

Nice udder on Hera. That’s a lot of milk.

Lace is still around? I thought you’d have got rid of that witch by now. LOL. No time like NOW.

 

[rachels.haven]

No. She didn't sell. I kind of wonder if her breeder had a "reputation" for badly behaved dam raised brats up north and trying to sell her with her herdname in the ad resulted in her staying. She also goes through phases where she loves me, then a few months later she will randomly decide to hate me and all humanity for months. After she kids she will become a very cheap, listed goat or a processor goat. *Promise*

 

[Baymule]

Some animals are such a PIA, no matter what they are worth, they aren’t worth keeping around.