Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

I had to deal with a broken scur on Jax so I pulled out my iron and tried to burn it some. It stopped the bleeding, hopefully the burning will slow down the growing too. He still has one wicked scur left. I hope it breaks off too. Since I had him in the guillotine anyways P), I decided to shave him up. Since he is the studmuffin, I needed better pics for advertising once Georgia has her babies. I really wasn't too impressed with how he looked in full coat, but OH MY! This boy has some muscle and I like what I see under that coat. His hooves are dry and I still need to learn how to trim hooves better, but his body type is really nice and I love the angularity to his rear legs, something a few of my girls are lacking. I paid several pretty pennies (well for my budget they were alot) for him because he is out of Rosasharns Honeys Cyclone, from Rosasharns Buckwheat Honey and Rosasharns Soporro. I love the look of his dad and all the milk and show behind him. The fact that he is a chocolate buckskin is a bonus because I really like the buckskin pattern.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

My girlfriend called me today just a little stressed out. She and her aunt found 2 pups on the side of the road. They couldn't keep them so they brought them out to us. They are starving, all ribs and fleas. Sweet little dogs though. My guess at this point is that the bigger one is around 7 months or so and the smaller one is closer to 4 months. Could be from the same mom I guess. They are small dogs, mostly white the bigger one has brown spots and kind of blueish eyes, probably mostly rat or jack russell terrier and dachshund. The smaller one has a little bit of black/gray on his head and a black spot on his rump. They look like maybe a small touch of queensland or aussie back a few gens.

DD is bathing the pups and I just thought about someone that might like one. Of course if he wants both that would be great. These are going to be nice dogs, I am just very happy with Whiskey, Beaux Jangles and (not so happy with) Charlie. I am not a puppy person. I always have to do the most training and care for them so I prefer to not do puppies. DH loves puppies though.

No goat babies yet. I really hope we aren't waiting on the next date That would put us another week out I think....

We moved the meat bird babies outside last night...They stink so bad I couldn't wait to get them out of the kitchen.

I caught Jasmine in the trap last night. The possum busted up one of my chicken nests so I set the trap on the porch of the yellow chicken house. Jazzy was mewing like a kitten so sorry for herself being stuck in there....

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Still no babies!

School is out for the teens....Yeah!

Tomorrow most of my brothers and parents are coming for a graduation party for my oldest. I have to work all weekend though.

The little pups are doing good except for the trying to steal food off the table. And the squishing through the baby gate to join us in the other room. Did I mention I don't care for the whole puppy thing. They are friendly and they are getting along great with the big dogs. They just chill on the porch when I put everyone out for a few minutes of peace and then come in and pass out on the kitchen floor. Someone will end up with great little companions. I already offered them to the neighbors and one friend... but no dice.

It is too hot here... I heard it is supposed to get between 104 and 109 this weekend.......

 

[ragdollcatlady]

The graduation party went well. Mom, Dad, and 3 of my brothers were able to come down. Noone was able to stay for the night, but it is awesome that they all drove down. It is a 6 hour round trip for them, so that says alot. We had a BBQ and got to visit for a few hours. Of course it was unbearably hot for the out of towners, but they came anyway, and were glad to head home in the cool of the evening.

The pups are doing good, putting on weight. I still haven't found them a home yet, but I am asking everyone I know to pass the word along. Nutsy, the doxie mix is shy, but very snugly and quite sweet. Mr. PPPPiddles the leaky puppy (you have to stutter the Ps to say it right) is just precious,....but very leaky. They are both too into the whole scrounging thing still. We can't have anything on the kitchen table for 10 seconds, even if we are right there, or they are trying to snatch it. They also steal all the shoes off the porch and throw them into the flowerbed Puppies are so not my thing....I was laughing at Whiskey the other day as she was telling the pups off for looking at her. She doesn't do puppies either. I guess we are two of a kind, me and my dog. Beaux Jangles does't really mind the puppies though. He will tell them now and then how he is the boss, but he lets them take over the dish when I put down a bowl for the dogs to lick. He interacts with them quite a bit actually.

No babies from Georgia. She told me she sent them back with a return to sender note....but I told her I could still see the bulges in her belly doing the cancan....She looked around at her belly shocked to see that they were clearly still here. Hmmm. Sorry girlfriend! Nice try. Better luck next time! The poor thing lays down to eat with her midnight snack right in front of her. I would too if I were that big. She grunts and groans when she is laying down and sticks her rear leg out to the side to make room for her ginormous belly.

Ravioli managed to get on top of the goat house! Yeah for her. I guess........I hope she doesn't manage to collapse it when she is 150 lbs and still dancing on the roof. She also managed to find a hole out of the old dog run that the little girls were staying in at night so I can milk the mamas in the mornings....so this morning all 3 little girls were out and had all the mamas milk for breakfast before I had a chance to milk! I am not going to have any more milk for a few days til that gets resolved.

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

Lol, puppies are not really my thing either!!!!! They are sooooo time consuming and messy, but oohhhh so cute!!!! Sometime it is inevitable and we just have to get one!
Poor Georgia!!! Hope she pops soon!!!!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Crossing our fingers she holds out til tomorrow after 9:30 in the morning. I am going to fly home after work........

Today we wormed, and dusted the chickens. The fair is only three weeks away so we are trying to get everyone jump started on being clean and bug free. This has been a crazy year for the lice and mites. We usually have a few infestations compliments of the wild birds, but this year it is crazy!!!We have 7 new silkie babies, mostly from Lightning McQueen, my black little girl and Leo, but we got one each from the lavender pen and one from my white pen (with one blue girl in there too). The white pen gave us a black baby with a small white patch on his head. Cute!

The pups are growing on me, they are cute, but I will be glad when my shoes stop growing in the flowerbed and my flowers stop falling down playing dead......flowers really stink at that game by the way.....

Oh my grapefruits are ripe....And they are pink! Up until last year I thought they were yellow. The tree almost died a year after we moved in due to a crazy frost spell so we didn't get fruit for a few years. Now she is covered in them. I love grapefruit, especially pink. They aren't super sweet, but I need to feed her with steer manure.....supposedly that will make citrus sweet. Soooooo I need a cow....Yeah ! I love cows! Maybe next year..... Like I need another animal right????

 

[ragdollcatlady]

We have babies! Yeah! 4 of them. 3 girls and one boy.

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

Yay!!!!! Congrats!!!
Lol, I bet she is sooooo relieved!!!!! And you too!!!!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Sorry about the good news bomb without any details. I had to rush off to work. Yesterday was very busy.

In the morning I finished milking and went in to say hi to Georgia. She hadn't eaten her midnight snack, so I knew we were close to kidding. She was on day 146 too so we were good on that. BUUUTTTTT....when I sat down in the straw to hang out with her for awhile, my hand was swarmed with tiny little mites! I couldn't risk the babies being born into a nest of mites (or infestation...whatever you would call it) so I took Georgie out back with everyone else and ran to the feed store. I had to get fresh straw and while I was there I picked up hay for the boys (it was only $12.75 for orchard mix), A few more bales of alfalfa, and I picked up a few couplers. I used the couplers (they are the little 6 inch leash type things with a ring in the center and a hook on either end for walking 2 dogs at once) to hook the goats to the fence while I milk. I got an adjustable one to hold my headstall in place on my milkstand. I love it! ( I feel like a genius! ) These were only $4.50 and $6.00.

So then I had DS help me unload, checked on Georgie and left the trailer while DD and I ran to town to find some items for today's Fathers Day dinner. DH answered my text asking if he preferred homemade raviolis, bolognese sauce with spaghetti, stroganoff, and/or cookies, with "yes". :/ We decided on the raviolis and had to stop at a few stores.

By the time we got back, Georgia had her babies in the sand and dirt out back! So we grabbed everyone and brought them into the laundry room for a few minutes while we busted our tails, cleaning out he garage stall, putting down DE and fresh straw.

Everyone is good. I used my little kitchen scale and we have:
Female, light buckskin but with dark facial stripes. 4 lb
Female, black or brown ( I can't tell yet in the poor light in the garage) with white and spots. 3lb, 2 oz
Female, buckskin with white band. 3lb, 6oz

Male, white and black. 3lb, 6oz

Everyone is healthy and good!

I plan on keeping one of the girls. I want to hold one back for Georgia for company. She took awhile to settle last year. I see that she finally settled after a second dose of copper and Selenium and I know the first dose after I brought her home seemed to help a lot, so she may have been deficient. It could have also been Jax. He was young so he might not have been getting the job done until then. I had tried to breed Spell to him at first also, but she didn't take so I bred her to Buck and she ended up settling from that breeding. This is Georgia's 3rd year in a row of having quads and she had twins the 2 years before that. Buck Naked is from one of her sets of quads. Hopefully they will both pass that fertility along.

After all that I had to throw dinner together and rushed off to work. I just had time to throw the news out there.

 

[bonbean01]

Congrats on those cute little goaties!!!