Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

I hope you are able to get your girl bred. Last year it seemed like Georgia wasn't going to take, but on our last try for the season, she did....

Hope you get some spots!!! I love paints and spots...the more color, the better! Hopefully once we finally get Ravi bred, we will be in for some spots too....

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I finally gave the possum to my buddy and he dispatched him for me. I guess the pelt was covered in fleas so he didn't end up skinning him...maybe next time....

 

[babsbag]

Ends up that my spotted girl is pregnant, but my LaMancha isn't Guess it could have been worse, they could have both been open. Now the guessing game begins with her...I have NO idea when she was bred. The other 3 have nice little udders forming, she has nada, and doesn't even look fat, at all. So sometime in the next 4 months. Lots of days in 4 months.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

LOL....only about 120 give or take a few........

Glad to hear your spotted took though. That must feel good!

 

[babsbag]

Yeah, it does feel good, but now I look at her everyday and wonder when she will start to show. My black one has looked pregnant for months; some of those Boers look pregnant even when they aren't so no telling. I just hate not knowing, guess I need to get my barn cams installed.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

We tried to breed Stinker Belle and Ravi the other day.... My bred girls are doing well and looking ready. I am seeing some sticky discharge on a couple and poofy back ends. Georgia doesn't look as big so I am thinking she won't have as many this time around. I think everyone else looks around the same size though, so I guess we will see. Spartagus is smaller than Buck Naked and Jax soooo....not sure if that will have much affect on the babies size???

We have a 4H poultry meeting on Monday...I am the leader ....I also just learned that there is another kid signed up for dairy goats with us....Also the leader for that one!!!! Should be fun...but I hope I know more than the new kid about goats or I will have to ask him to teach the classes!

 

[babsbag]

My husband and I did the Boy Scout leader thing for 14 years and during that time I held just about every job available. Really kind of glad that is behind me. If we had lived in the country at the time probably would have done 4h too; at least I would have, not sure about the kids.

My youngest one's GF attends UC Davis and is planning on being a vet and live in the country and do all that farming country stuff, I find it funny that he would connect with someone like that now that his mom is the total country girl.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I love doing Farm Day, we gotta sign up for it again. I think my DD is doing the 4H animal thing now, mostly for her "school resume" but she does the goats to humor me. She knows nearly all the chicken stuff....at least what she hasn't forgotten.....We have had chickens for 9 or 10 years already.

My goat girls look close to popping! I am a little bit surprised that all could be ready at the same time. I thought Jane was acting like a little hussy showing the other boys her rear end and getting them all excited, just a month or so after she had been introduced to Spartagus, so I thought he might not have bred her yet....But I think I see her udder looking about ready. This weekend hopefully!!!!!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Today we picked up heat lamp bulbs for when the kids get here!!!!getting excited! Reese looked like she had a contraction this morning so anytime!!!!

We Eprinexed all the chickens for lice today except the "3 stooges"... 2 vultures (naked neck/silkie/ameraucana cross) and their full sibling (but without a naked neck) that is a black and white stripped little convict...boots and all...cute and ugly at the same time! Those three were roosting in a row higher up in the avocado tree and we couldn't reach them...gotta get them tomorrow.

We put Stinkyweed in a pen with our new Salmon Fav rooster to hopefully hatch out a new pet rooster to take JJs place. In case you missed it, he was the best mixed breed chicken pet ever. Last year, a picture of my daughter holding him for a little kid to pet during the Farm Day presentation was in the local newspaper ....When we brought him home after the local county fair last year, Amelia Bedelia our (true to her name...just a bit ditzy) pet turkey, killed him. I think she forgot him since he was gone so long (before the fair he was penned with the meat bird babies so she hadn't seen him for a few months) and thought he was an intruder....(if I believed otherwise, pet or not she would not still be here!!!)

JJ

His mom Stinkeyweed

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Spelly had twins on Friday Jan 24! She had a buckskin little doeling (blue eyes) and a chocolate with white little buckling (his eyes look blue/gray on the inside and brown on the outside???). The little boy looks like he has a white heart on his rump!



We had our first poultry meeting and I think it went OK. One of my 4hrs was wanting ameraucana hens so I gave her the 3 feed store hens I bought last year. They were just starting to lay so she will be off to a decent start. They were pretty mellow (once you caught them) too so she will be able to tame them up really well. They were beautiful birds. She had already named them before they even got here to pick them up and she invited some friends over to meet them....Now that is my kinda kid! One of our other 4hrs is wanting a new show bird since hers have become just about unhandleable, and she was thinking she might want a silkie. Just so happens I have a WHOLE bunch of those laying around and while I wouldn't part with very many, she just so happened to like a (GEORGEOUS!!!) little hen I had held back for myself, but I was willing to part with her so everything worked out wonderfully.....Hopefully she will win lots of ribbons with her!

We have our first dairy goat meeting with someone other than ourselves, tomorrow. I am a bit more nervous about this one....I have only had goats for a few years and I have no experience showing them myself....

Today I went out and took pics of a few of my new salmons...forgot to get a pic of SalmonElla.....But I updated my website and added the pics of the new birds and baby goats. I decided that Weird Altitude really is my best looking rooster out of the 4 salmon boys and that the younger Jr looks like he is shaping up nicer than the older one. I was really wanting to use pictures to compare types. The newest rooster has a side spur on his comb, small wattles (not supposed to have those because of the beard) and he has yet to fill out. The Jrs have better combs (they do have small wattles too) but the one I like less seems to have either loose feathering in his wings, or split wings......he is still young though, I think only around 5 or 6 months???? I will give them a little more time.

Weird altitude and nicer looking of the 2 Jrs




I took pics of Hannah she is turning out nicely, the new salmon girl (no name yet) looks a little bit derpyish, and here is a pic of the last little mahogany that looks like a little pullet....



Thats about it for now.....