SuburbanFarmChic Journal - update and rant 5/5
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SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
I was attempting to be sarcastic to tempt the fates into letting me have some time to run over and pick up this buck. So far something has happened EVERY weekend we have tried. Since October. LOL.
Good news on the baby goat front. Both were up and standing when I went out and had full bellies. Still some odd hock flexing but that should correct over the next few days. Hopefully since they are now getting up and moving around there is less chance of bloat.
Good news on the baby goat front. Both were up and standing when I went out and had full bellies. Still some odd hock flexing but that should correct over the next few days. Hopefully since they are now getting up and moving around there is less chance of bloat.
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SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
Haven't updated this thing in nearly a month. Wow.
So the babies are up and great and scaling round bales. They're fine. The boy is uber friendly and the girl takes after Maggie a bit more in personality. Both appear to be polled. The boy has some bumps but they are round and not sharp like horns and at 3+ weeks old I just can't believe that he's horned. He was totally descended at 36hrs after birth and was trying to mount the boer at 1.5 weeks old. He's all boy. And he's big and beautiful. I am SO pleased with him and so ticked that he is a boy. Stupid danglies.
Our companion goat went out as a companion again. I think this time to a permanent home. She's been bounced around for about 2 yrs now because she's so friendly, easy going and able to hold her own against even meany queenys and doesn't smash around a smaller goat.
We completed a trade we were doing for 2 mini nubian does. They were both supposed to be bred but by the time we picked them up we realized the younger one was not and got a refund on the breeding. They are second and third generation. The older doe had twins last time and for being due in the first week of April I'm thinking twins or maybe trips. I don't know how she carries though so I'm just crossing fingers at this point.
We also ended up taking in a mini toggenburg. (now there's an image). She's field goat skittish but isn't totally terrified of people. She's a yearling. Pregnant and due sometime between now and 5 months from now. She's been in with the bucks. She's bred back to a Nigerian. I know the buck she came from and the one she's bred to and I'm excited about these babies. If anything good comes, doe wise, I will be pulling and bottle feeding.
So the babies are up and great and scaling round bales. They're fine. The boy is uber friendly and the girl takes after Maggie a bit more in personality. Both appear to be polled. The boy has some bumps but they are round and not sharp like horns and at 3+ weeks old I just can't believe that he's horned. He was totally descended at 36hrs after birth and was trying to mount the boer at 1.5 weeks old. He's all boy. And he's big and beautiful. I am SO pleased with him and so ticked that he is a boy. Stupid danglies.
Our companion goat went out as a companion again. I think this time to a permanent home. She's been bounced around for about 2 yrs now because she's so friendly, easy going and able to hold her own against even meany queenys and doesn't smash around a smaller goat.
We completed a trade we were doing for 2 mini nubian does. They were both supposed to be bred but by the time we picked them up we realized the younger one was not and got a refund on the breeding. They are second and third generation. The older doe had twins last time and for being due in the first week of April I'm thinking twins or maybe trips. I don't know how she carries though so I'm just crossing fingers at this point.
We also ended up taking in a mini toggenburg. (now there's an image). She's field goat skittish but isn't totally terrified of people. She's a yearling. Pregnant and due sometime between now and 5 months from now. She's been in with the bucks. She's bred back to a Nigerian. I know the buck she came from and the one she's bred to and I'm excited about these babies. If anything good comes, doe wise, I will be pulling and bottle feeding.
autumnprairie
Owned by the Rotten Heifers
are we thinking pink or blue?
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SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
We are thinking pinkish but blue is ok too because they can be sold or go to freezer camp. What we are mostly crossing our fingers for is MILKERS. We had to put our milker down in early Jan and I don't yet have a cooperating milker. Maggie, aka, the flesh eating goat, is just not destined to be a milker. She was a field goat too long. GREAT babies, great mom. Not a milker.
The one I was hoping to milk.. yeah, she's the one that is not bred.
The one I was hoping to milk.. yeah, she's the one that is not bred.
ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
That is a bummer. No milk. I can so not wait or Nina to be in milk.SuburbanFarmChic said:We are thinking pinkish but blue is ok too because they can be sold or go to freezer camp. What we are mostly crossing our fingers for is MILKERS. We had to put our milker down in early Jan and I don't yet have a cooperating milker. Maggie, aka, the flesh eating goat, is just not destined to be a milker. She was a field goat too long. GREAT babies, great mom. Not a milker.
The one I was hoping to milk.. yeah, she's the one that is not bred.
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SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
So I finally got off my keester and announced to the world that we are doing a CSA starting Jan 2013. No time to do it this year. Need to get all the ducks in a row first. How are you doing a CSA with a yard of less than an acre, you crazy woman, you might ask.. Well lemme tell ya.
First off, yes. I am totally freakin insane to try this. And SO excited. We are doing it as a co-op of about 4-6 small time farmers that can each produce a large qty of one or two things. I rock at tomatoes. They love me. I don't know why but they do.
We are going to have veggies, fruits, meats and maybe eggs. I have meetings with other CSA's that I know are at max capacity and are selling down in DC so they can talk honestly w/o feeling like I'm stealing customers. I have lined up a beef seller, a chicken producer, turkeys for Thanksgiving, pork for sausages, pork for regular pork things, might have enough rabbits by then. Have 2 people with greenhouses ready to go on some veggies and our greenhouse goes in next month. I swear it does. April at the latest.
That gives me another year to work on fixing the soils here. Get suppliers lined up and coops ready and blah blah blah. Anyway. I'm insane. And excited.
First off, yes. I am totally freakin insane to try this. And SO excited. We are doing it as a co-op of about 4-6 small time farmers that can each produce a large qty of one or two things. I rock at tomatoes. They love me. I don't know why but they do.
We are going to have veggies, fruits, meats and maybe eggs. I have meetings with other CSA's that I know are at max capacity and are selling down in DC so they can talk honestly w/o feeling like I'm stealing customers. I have lined up a beef seller, a chicken producer, turkeys for Thanksgiving, pork for sausages, pork for regular pork things, might have enough rabbits by then. Have 2 people with greenhouses ready to go on some veggies and our greenhouse goes in next month. I swear it does. April at the latest.
That gives me another year to work on fixing the soils here. Get suppliers lined up and coops ready and blah blah blah. Anyway. I'm insane. And excited.
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