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

[animalmom]

@Hens and Roos, you could try adding kelp to Moose's feed. It had done wonders on my girls coats. It doesn't take much, 2 teaspoons a day per goatie. Mine get it on the milking stand so I know who is eating it and who isn't. I have one girl who's coat was real wiry and rather unpleasant to pet, not soft at all. Now that she's been getting the kelp her coat is like velvet, real plush and soft, and not just because it is her winter coat. Just a thought.

 

[Hens and Roos]

thanks @ animalmom, we will look into that. A friend of my gave us some ground flax to try- she uses it with her horses.

 

[Southern by choice]

Kelp is great ... if you can get them to eat it.

Our Kikos no problem our dairy goats are snots.... they turn their noses up at everything.

 

[Hens and Roos]

ours seem to like the different food items we bring out as a treat. They especially like peanut shells and will push each other out of the way to get to the treats!

 

[Hens and Roos]

our weather has been improving all week, we had 50* here on Friday and that melted a lot of the snow/ice under layer makes it soooo much easier to do chores!

Today we tapped our 4 maple trees and will be making maple syrup again this year, thinking this is our 9th year. Taps were starting to run as soon as we put them into the trees- DH figures this will be a good year

 

[Goatgirl47]

Kelp is great ... if you can get them to eat it.

Our Kikos no problem our dairy goats are snots.... they turn their noses up at everything.

That's hilarious (and irritating, I'm sure)!

I've been feeding my goats kelp in the stanchion. At first the Mini-Lamancha doe (my pickiest goat by far) didn't like it and wouldn't eat it or anything surrounding it, but then she toughened up and got over it. Now she likes it.

 

[Goatgirl47]

our weather has been improving all week, we had 50* here on Friday and that melted a lot of the snow/ice under layer makes it soooo much easier to do chores!

Today we tapped our 4 maple trees and will be making maple syrup again this year, thinking this is our 9th year. Taps were starting to run as soon as we put them into the trees- DH figures this will be a good year

You have Maple trees? That's awesome!

 

[Hens and Roos]

we have 4 silver maple, so it takes a bit more sap compared to sugar maple(40 gal sap:1 gal syrup) to make a gallon of syrup

 

[samssimonsays]

I didn't know you could tap those! I am pretty certain we have one ginormous split silver maple and TONS of it's off spring that have started lining our driveway! There were about 30 or so that came up last spring and were already about 3 ft tall by fall. We left them all to do their thang as we love them and This year I want to transplant some littles over on the other side of the yard to try to block some wind from the pipeline. The guy we bought our house from did the syrup deal in what we now use as the barn. Not sure where he tapped trees but he must have done it somewhere.

 

[Hens and Roos]

no, no new goat but just giving an update as to our maple sap collection to make maple syrup- as of yesterday we have collected 12 gallons and will see what tomorrow brings as are temp is to get into the 50's!