ThreeBoysChicks - Sold Sheep and Guineas, what to buy.....

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Also wanted to add. I always talk about horses and them needing to appreciate their human's space. Well this evening, I was bringing the girls over from the larger pasture so they were in the dry lot with the barn (Because we are suppose to get a bunch of snow tomorrow). Blue decided to go through the gate with me. She pinned me against the fence post and my left hand was between my chest and the post. Now that back of my left hand is swollen and black and blue. Ouch.

I was being complacent and she decided to be in a hurry. Always be on your toes when dealing with big animals.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

CAE Negative - Nina, Tilly, Libby, B001 and B002 confirmed CAE negative.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Congrats. Did you test for anything else?

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Congrats. Did you test for anything else?

Not this time. Other than pregnancy. I shipped the samples to BioTech and they only do Pregnancy and CAE.

Last year, everyone tested negative for CL, so I am pretty confident they are still CL negative.

Next year, I will do CAE and CL.

 

[jodief100]

Baby Goats!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Congrats. Did you test for anything else?

Not this time. Other than pregnancy. I shipped the samples to BioTech and they only do Pregnancy and CAE.

Last year, everyone tested negative for CL, so I am pretty confident they are still CL negative.

Next year, I will do CAE and CL.

Very cool. Congrats

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Our barn has 2 12X12 horse stalls. The horses are never in them. In fact, we are getting a run-in shed for the large field, so the horses can just stay over there. As it is now, I only bring them over if there is suppose to be bad weather.

So I converted one of the 12X12 stalls into two Kidding Stalls. In this first photo, Danny is pointing out the wall that I built out of pallets. My friend manages our local Ace Hardware and my middle son works there, so I have a steady supply of pallets.

In this photo, you can see the gate, which is a different size pallet, but was very light weight, made a perfect gate. The pallets on the walls are for hay. They are wide enough that a flake of hay slides right in. Very little waste this way.

I used hinges that I purchased years ago in bulk form a BYC member. All of the lumber was either the pallets or from a friends pool deck, which we took down and brought all of the lumber here. Only thing I paid for were the screws.

Here is a close up on the pile of goat, Tilly and Libby in the corner, then Nina and Yogi on the outside.

Earlier today, I took some more pictures of the goats.

Nina and her daughter Tilly. Nina is BioTracking confirmed Pregnant, due April 15, 2013

Nina and her daughter Libby. And the sheep are behind them.

B001 - Unregistered Boer Goat - BioTracking confirmed Pregnant, due March 2013.

B002 - Unregistered Boer Goat - B001's daughter - Bio Tracking confirmed Pregnant, due March 2013.

Daisy taking a snooze.

B001 and B002, always together.

And one of my EE Roosters. I have been trying for weeks to get a good photo of him.

Our Barneveldor Hen, crossed with our EE roosters, her offspring lay olive eggs and some with speckles.

 

[Roll farms]

Great pics, and that ee roo shot is awesome.

 

[marlowmanor]

Your Nina is due to kid soon after our does are due to kid. I have one doe (Bailey) due April 4th and the other (Dixie) due April 12th. Looks like we'll both have April babies around!

 

[Queen Mum]

The goats look great! And I love that hen!