rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

Praying that the "good ones" make the offer and that it will close for you.... be nice to be done with all the drama so far away from where you are now... and better for the pocketbook too!!!!!

 

[rachels.haven]

...and Snowflake is still open and her ship to processing date is this week.

On a different note, I arranged earlier to get an AI son by Little Orchard BR Pure Thrill (lamancha) from out west next month and suddenly I've got an opportunity to bring in a Kastdemur's buck that is 50% rocking cb and heavily Lucky*Star's as well from 4 hours away from a well known long time breeder too to act as my related out cross in constructing our pedigrees. We'd be adding a dash of Kastdemur's too. Hopefully it doesn't decrease dairyness too much. I may use him to market kids to show people while still seeing if I can prove a few of his offsprings in the dairy dept still.

Apparently you can get nice bucks after the breeding season ends too. (Transport gets harder though, this time seller was willing to drive him up for a little extra)

 

[Baymule]

2 nice bucks! That’s a deal and you jumped at the chance. You will get some nice kids out of them.

 

[rachels.haven]

Shipped my mastitis doe and my uterine infection/fail to settle doe. There will be meat picked up next week. We went all the way out to Sharpsburg. Somehow they were eating half the alfalfa I've been putting out each time and I didn't have to refill the alfalfa this morning after last night. Two goats out of like 21. Go figure.

Since my little white ND buck Beaul is not able to be used for an indefinite amount of time until the drama is over (and I'm not sure I want to use him) I'm picking up a very nice buck from Phoenix Farm in Mechanicsville this Saturday for fall 2025. Fall 2024 is done and over so pricing is very reasonable. Hopefully his pedigree fits with Oberon's. He'll be over 2 when I use him and already old enough now I'm not super concerned about corporal hyper extension.

Cookie my female LGD puppy is being spayed tomorrow. I can't have her cycling with the neighbor's intact ridgeback/hound cross being allowed to run around everywhere and a probably not legal pit bull kennel across the way. I don't want her roaming or them coming over here to hurt animals...and then there's the issue of puppies. Those are NOT crosses I'd want. We do have Drago in the buck pen too, a young intact male...I really just don't want oops puppies or the stress that comes with preventing them. We got her in at a low cost place. Price for spaying an animal is through the roof right now.

We had more people trying to move into our house yesterday. Different people. BUT suddenly we're under contract with a closing date around the end of January. It's contingent on the closing of their house, but I think it will go. We're also shopping for backup offers. We lowered the sale price to just above the offer we accepted and it's getting activity. (Backup offers may not be good, offers have consistently been about $50-100k below listed price with buyers becoming very head up about and straight up rejecting any offer to counter)

And finally I'm braving the risks of working with flour today to quietly make some proportioned chocolate chip cookie dough balls to freeze so we can have surprise chocolate chip cookies over the holidays. I was able to prevent flour "poofage" while mixing and got it off my hands fast enough I don't feel itchy right now. I'll use my dough scooper to get it balled out and then freeze it and hopefully that will be that (secretly, lol).