Roll Farms - Herdstock is over, and I'm feeling hung over, lol

[RPC]

So are you saying that if they decide to sell them you may be interested if one is a doe? Now these 2 can not be shown themselves because to be shown they have to be a broken harlequin. These 2 are not broken but they say if you breed them to anything else they should have broken according to the genetics.

 

[Roll farms]

Yes, Roger, I'd LOVE a doe. PLEASE try when you see them again, or give 'em my number and have them call me if ever they get one.

A friend of mine went to a show this past weekend w/ instruction to find me one, but no luck.

So last night, after I got the milking / feeding done....one of the people who backed out of buying their share of the chicks called needing DiMethox.
Heh. I read her her pedigree, as my late FIL whould have said. (The chick thing isn't the only thing she's done to me, it was just the icing on the cake, so to speak....)

I explained that I'm tired of being "Good old Kim" who everyone falls back on when they need something....and not treated w/ the same respect.

She apologized, and asked what it'd take to get some DiMethox. I said, "Take your 8 chicks and gimme a $20.00 bill."
Then someone else called, needing scurs on Togg bucklings reburned....then another friend came to get her turkey / bring me eggs. Then I went to bed.

Now I'm waiting for someone to come pick up eggs, then I gotta run DH's nephew to TSC for boxes (heaven forbid he ask for them while I WAS THERE.... ) and drop 5 chicks off in town.

THEN it'll be time to bottle feed the kids.

Then...I might just sit on my butt for a lil while, til time for PM chores. It's too chilly out to wanna play outside long. Those 88 dg days last week spoiled me...normally a 55dg day in March would feel like spring, but I have been cold all day.

Have a wonderful afternoon....

 

[RPC]

Ok well I might be back over there this weekend so I will talk to them and let them know about the harlequin bunny.

 

[bonbean01]

RollFarms...just have to say...I see your avatar and I believe that is the neatest, cutest little kid I've ever seen...beautiful!!! We have hair sheep, but if ever I was to add goats...I'd want that one...not that you'd give it up...LOLOL...what an amazingly beautiful little animal!!!

 

[Roll farms]

Thank you! We're awful proud of her, too.

Even if she IS the single brattiest kid I've ever seen....she's special and she knows it!

 

[Roll farms]

I got so much done today, I should take tomorrow off.

Cleaned the house chicks' totes and fed/watered them, fed, milked, etc., ran the sweeper, did a load of laundry, burned the trash, cleaned the silkie pen in the bunny barn, and the 'chick barn' pen of young silkies. Took all those shavings down to the barn and dumped them into a low, wet spot in the doorway of the GP pen.

Raked up all the loose / waste hay in both barns, put that in the wheelbarrow to use next time it rains and the GP pen floods.

Sprayed 50% of the yard (as far as the hose would reach) w/ weed killer. Got inturrupted by a PITA customer and some Amish. (long story ).

Fried a pound of Jowl bacon then went and did PM chores / milking, then fried 6 eggs and made toast for dinner.

Went out and watered stuff in the greenhouse and potted some wandering jew plant starts.

Helped DH make some hay feeders for the bunnies.

Now I'm waiting for PM bottle feeding so I can jammy up and relax for the night.

It's supposed to be chilly tomorrow, I may stay inside and work on DH's bunny barn sign.

Have a good night, all.

 

[Squirrelgirl88]

You probably did more before 10 am than I did all day. SLOW DOWN will ya. You're making the rest of us look bad.

 

[elevan]

Jowl bacon?

 

[autumnprairie]

Jowl bacon?

smoked jowl I believe, it is really good

 

[Roll farms]

Yep, it's like a cross between bacon and ham with a more bacon-y flavor. Sooo Gooooood. Next time you're at a 'real' butcher (not the chain stores), buy a pound. Fry it slow (it burns easily) and see if you don't just LOVE it.

I can't slow down. DH is working 6am to 5 pm daily (and half-days on Saturdays) so I gotta get this place in shape on my own. I'm trying to get all the 'bad' chores done so I can play in the dirt guilt-free when the danger of frost is past. And I despise, hate, loathe, and just plain cannot stand to sweat, so when REAL summer gets here (90degrees and humid) I will only be outside part time....the rest of the time I hide in the AC so I don't wilt like a delicate flower.
HAH!

I still can't decide if Freckles is pregnant or not. She's certainly fat enough to be...but NO udder. Can't tell if her tail ligs are hard or not b/c she's skittish / wild and chubby on top of it. She's barely been given grain for months (about 1/2c 1x a day) and on crappy grass hay so she really shouldn't be this porky, so I'm sorta hopeful, but not really. We are going to put her into a kidding stall tonight, just in case....she'd be due Saturday if she is.

Regardless, she's leaving next week whether she kids or not. I didn't 'buy' her, she was one of the rescues I got in October....that was supposed to be taken back by her prev. owner. He knew I didn't want a doe w/ horns but asked me to keep her for the winter. A kid out of her was to be my 'fee'....he's unfriended me on FB and no longer taking my calls (I read him the riot act for starving the 3 goats and he got mad), I've tried every way I know how to get him to tell me if he wants her back or not...and he won't answer. So I will sell her and send him a check for part of it.

I caught up all my paperwork 2 days ago. I was thrilled to see that I've sold 3100$ worth of goats so far this year.
But devestated to see that I've spent 2500$ on new animals. Gonna take more than 600$ for hay and feed for the remainder.

Gonna be another 'in the hole' year.

In my defense, if even part of the 12 dairy bucklings we've had had been does, we'd have made another 1200$ at least. And if I hadn't lost the no-butt kid and the spotted doeling. I also 'gave' a wether away (family lost the wether they bought 3 days after they got him home...dunno what caused it but I told them I'd replace it one time...).
And I shoulda probably sold the 'old' goats / sheep that I gave away for meat....but wanted them to get pet homes.

When I stop being a softie I'll make a profit. Maybe.