Millie
Posted on February 20, 2010 - Filed Under animals, babies, birthday, goats | Leave a Comment
This is Millie, the birthday goat. She’s not quite one month old and she has blue eyes just like me. As you can see, she’s quite the mix!
Read More..>>Green Eggs and Ham
Posted on February 20, 2010 - Filed Under animals, chickens, eggs | Leave a Comment
Please sing along with me…Which of these things are not like the others?
After months of waiting and wondering, we finally plucked our first “easter” eggs. We’ve had a bounty of brown, a few pink, and now finally GREEN! I was so excited I jumped up and down and screamed like the girl I am! I’m [...]
Read More..>>Farm update
Posted on February 18, 2010 - Filed Under animals, babies, birthday, chickens, farm maintenance, planting, seeds, vegetables, weather | 1 Comment
Freezing! Temperature was 24 degrees. It actually snowed last Friday night for about 20 minutes. Everyone inside is bundled in blankets. Everyone outside is bundled in hay.
New Baby goat born on my birthday! Her name is Millie. She’s multi-colored. Photos to come, promise. She had a twin brother, but he mysteriously disappeared one night. No [...]
I’ve gotta crow
Posted on December 15, 2009 - Filed Under animals, birds, chickens | 1 Comment
Our rooster is just now coming into his own at almost 8 months. He’s big and bulky, and testing out his fertilization techniques and his crowing capabilities. Finally! We’ve been waiting and waiting for him to let loose. Since he is technically just an adolescent or cockarel, he may have been [...]
Read More..>>The Gospel According to Chicken (yeah, it’s a lil preachy)
Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under Activism, animals, birds, chickens, food safety, ick!, nutrition, ridiculous city girl | 1 Comment
This morning I woke up to the smell of stewing chicken. It drifted through the house, all the way back to the bedroom, and permeated my dreams until I woke thinking “what is that smell”? Honestly, it didn’t smell that good so early in the morning. I thought someone farted. Since [...]
Read More..>>The Tony Hawk School of Horseback Riding
Posted on September 20, 2009 - Filed Under animals, bitless bridle, children, horse, horseback riding, pasture, skateboarding | Leave a Comment
So I’ve been trying to work with Beautiful horse more since I’ve been pretty negligent over the past year. Yes, it’s been over 1 year since we brought these horses home and I’m not even riding! My feeling is, as picturesque as they are running around the pasture, if they don’t do more [...]
Read More..>>Like sand in the hourglass… these are The Goats of Our Lives
Posted on August 23, 2009 - Filed Under animals, goats, inbreeding, just for fun | 1 Comment
As we loaded up goats Topsy and Flash into the kennel in the back of the pickup truck that would be taking them to their new home, I came to a realization…
Baby goat Flash has been raised the past 4-5 months by the only goat mom she recognizes, Big Mama. However, Big Mama actually [...]
9…10…a big fat hen
Posted on August 23, 2009 - Filed Under animals, birds, chickens, cooking, farm maintenance, goats, ick! | 1 Comment
Today we traded 2 female goats for 10 chickens: 4 live layers, 6 frozen. The 4 new laying hens are a bit older than our current chickens and have already laid 3 brown eggs: 1 is your typical small grade egg, the other 2 are like mini egg-size, but edible. They’ll [...]
Read More..>>Thinning the herd
Posted on August 21, 2009 - Filed Under animals, farm maintenance, goats, inbreeding, this sucks! | Leave a Comment
Oh sad days.
I’ve finally committed to reducing our goat population. I’m such a sentimental fool, I cry over an old goat! I put an ad in Craigs List and a gentleman came and took 2 of the males: Peanut and our new baby, Bolt. Peanut wasn’t too hard to say goodbye too as he was/is [...]
Goat Stress
Posted on July 4, 2009 - Filed Under animals, babies, donkey, farm maintenance, goats, names, this sucks! | Leave a Comment
I don’t know who is more traumatized at this point…us or the goats? I realized I hadn’t yet related this story probably because I was just so over it. But in memoriam, and to keep a healthy mind and heart, here goes.
Goats are actually pretty hearty and independent creatures. The only real problems we’ve had: [...]