Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

I took some pics of the goats today:

MacinTasha

StinkerBelle

Spell and her twins (in the middle)

Janes baby is living up to my expectations.....Flying around the yard at mach speed......

 

[ragdollcatlady]

almost forgot this one....

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Tough little hunk squaring off against big mama Spell.....

Georgia and her little hunka chunka

Reese and her mini me....

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I sold Romeo, the little chocolate boy with the white heart on his rump. He gets to go be a stud for a couple of pygmy girls, so that is good. He was nice and smooth along the top, really lengthening out....nice curvy back legs and he had a very friendly personality.

I had one baby Faverolle hatch....waiting to see if any of my other eggs hatch. I have a couple sebastopol goose eggs in the incubator too.

Other than that, everyone is good.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I was so worried! I hadn't seen Salmon Ella for 2 days! I always trip over her while milking the goats in the morning because she is always doing her little ballerina pirouettes at my feet. I went looking for her in all the chickeny sort of places I thought she might be hiding in. No luck. I was home at lunchtime the other day, filling up goat water buckets, when, out of the blue, she comes barreling toward me with a couple of roosters in hot pursuit! I squat down, thinking she was going to run around behind me for protection, so I was preparing to grab the first rooster with a mighty lesson in mind. Instead, Salmon Ella jumps and flaps straight into my arms, talking and fussing and worrying all about those darn roosters! So I carried her around, while finishing up the chores, all the while listening to her complaints and worries, Finally I set her down in the garage with a bit of food and she calmed down. Of course as soon as the chickens were in bed for the night, we nabbed the worst of the offenders and threw them behind bars to pay for their crimes!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I had 2 more baby Faverolles hatch! Yeah!

Today we finally sorted out the breeding pens for the silkies. I put Cesar (blue splash with no crest but nice beard and wide backside) in with the blue, black, splash and one partridge pen....Barsideous White in with the 3 white girls.....and Toby (lavender ...possibly porcelain) in with the 2 lavender and 1 porcelain( I think ) pens. The last 3 boys, Hannibal, Sealy Boothe and Leonardi DiVinciCaprio are all in the bachelor pad for now.

We penned up the muscovie ducks (and Amelia the turkey), but Duckring is setting on the nest of eggs so she is still out. Apparently Ferdie, our resident mama muscovie got out to the road and was hit She was one of our first scovies to be hatched here.....She was really sweet...

Baby goats are now all disbudded.

I was talking over the fence to the neighbor. Her new little goats were running around and my big boy goats were rather interested in trying to meet these cute new neighbors. After awhile Andy got bored with them and started rubbing his big smelly head all over my behind. I didn't mind that too much (my jeans will never be the same however! ) But every now and again he would give me a little love nip on the derriere! He was actually rubbing his cheeks on my pockets and trying trying to grab the corner of my pocket, but I felt his teeth! It was pretty amusing. He was so content with getting so much attention, that he lay down near my feet and was just chilling for a bit. Then the boer genes took over and reminded him to be starving and off he went to see what was left over in the fridge...or under the walnut tree...same difference to a goat right?

I have 2 sebastopol eggs that look they are developing in the incubator right now and another 5 to put in. Hopefully they will be good, then I can offer some more for sale here pretty soon.

I think that is about all for now.....

 

[BrownSheep]

You must watch Bones.

I will need to see those Sebastopol goslings!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Of course! A chance to watch a genius woman try and navigate the social goofiness that is everywhere (and that requires very little actual logic most of the time) and a "oh-so-good-looking" hero to back her up...who doesn't want to see that?!?! And the solving mysteries from dead stuff is just plain cool!

My Sealy Boothe is the bomb too....lavender with black patches....Mmmmhhhhhmmmhhhhhhmmmmm! Hot Stuff! Might need to get him the "Cocky" belt buckle that the movie guy has! LOL! hidesorry chicken humor...)

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I had 2 baby chicks hatch today! They are out of my black green egg layer (ameraucana/Maran mom/ Ameraucana dad) female and my pure Faverolle rooster! One looks black/reddish, one looks blue/possibly reddish too....can't wait to see how they turn out!

I just candled my goose eggs and most of them look fertile!

I may have both baby goats sold

Farm day is this week! EeeeeK! I still have to pick up the pics to finish our posters and then I work all week except Thursday/farm day! Should be a good day though!

Oh we planted a few of the freesias, mint, daisy plants. Then DH and I started a bunch of vegetable seeds and talked about taking the front yard from the dogs and using that for our garden this year...I like the sounds of that! We have a drought here in California so we haven't really tried too hard to keep grass in the front...and when we have grass it is just cranky old crabgrass anyways! I was trying to grow a few trees to shade the yard first then work on grass.....but using that space for a garden sounds fantastic!.....Mostly since I seriously commandeered the whole backyard for my chickens, geese, ducks, and goats......

We picked up a few more strawberry plants. I found one with pink flowers! I want to put my miniature peach trees (think less than 18 inches high right now) in a small raised area with , maybe, the strawberries? for groundcover below....

I just counted down the days until Stinkerbelle should be due if she took....I am so um....something! The days fall right during our county fair! You 'd think I might have thought about something like that before hand!

 

[jodief100]

Those baby goats pictures are sooooo sweet! It must be nice to have a barnyard that is not covered in either ice, nor snow, nor mud.