Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

[Hens and Roos]

Don't we all! Friends of ours just had their first 2 does of the season kid, twin bucks and quads- 3 bucks 1 doe

Thinking pink

Are you still milking?

NO....we dried the does off in Nov, we probably could have went longer but it's not fun sitting outside in our cold weather for very long!!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Oh my goodness, I totally missed the part about your mom! I'm so glad she is back home with y'all

 

[Hens and Roos]

Oh my goodness, I totally missed the part about your mom! I'm so glad she is back home with y'all

thanks, we are too!!

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Glad your mom is doing better! Praying all goes well with your kiddings! Love kidding season...

 

[Hens and Roos]

Not much to update as far as the goats....we are getting closer to the start of kidding, they are eating hay at a faster pace then before and picky....the current bale we are feeding has more grass hay in it then they like so more of it is ending up on the ground......

DH is waiting for the weather to get a little nicer and the ground to dry off.....last fall he decided/informed me that the goat house roof needs to be higher- so he doesn't hit his head when he is helping with chores and since he is doing that he might as well bump the walls out and add an area for us to use only for milking(that way we don't get wet ). He already has the plan all drawn out. He was game to do this last fall already but we just had to much going on.......

DH has also given the nod that we can add a few Runner ducks for slug, snail and bug control...(DD has always asked about adding some since we started with chickens 7 years ago...... she hates bugs!!). Our biggest concerns are keeping their area dry- especially if they are housed near the goats and the amount of poop they will produce, they wont be able to free range as we have neighbors behind us)........any ideas would be welcome!

Finished our 2nd batch of maple syrup on Sunday and started batch 3 Monday morning as all the pails were full of sap. So far we have collected 47 gallons of sap for batch 3....I am cooking it down since I am working from home again this week(at least till my mom feels 100% again).

our internet is slow right now, I will try loading a picture of our syrup later....

 

[Bruce]

My bigger concern about ducks is having to deal with keeping them in water through the winter. I'd be more interested if winter wasn't 5 months long.

 

[NH homesteader]

Our ducks were fun but SO messy! I didn't miss taking care of them at all this winter, but in nice weather I do kind of miss them waddling around.

 

[Hens and Roos]

the water and being messy is our biggest concern.....

 

[Hens and Roos]

The last 2 days it has been windy here- at least 13 mph with gusts up to 30 mph(it feels more like 30mph all the time)......our goats DO NOT like wind.....they kind of look at us like what did you do now....

 

[Jenn27]

The last 2 days it has been windy here- at least 13 mph with gusts up to 30 mph(it feels more like 30mph all the time)......our goats DO NOT like wind.....they kind of look at us like what did you do now....

I know that look! I get the same look when it rains here. Luckily, it's getting a lot warmer here in TX already, so my doe's kidding will be a bit easier in that area, at least.