SA Farm's journal

Well, not much is going on lately. Typical cold and rainy weather right now, so just getting the basics done and staying in the house for the most part. The few nice days we're expecting will be busy ones since there's still a lot of work to be done before winter is upon us!
Maple is leaving. Just got her and now my sister is adopting her! Chance is going to go along as a companion until Maple kids so that will be a fun experience for them
I'm starting to think Granny is pregnant...We'll know for sure in December and once Maple and Chance leave, I may have her with Gruff for a bit, just to see if there's any interest there.
My DH got me another budgie for my birthday I'm looking forward to having another budgie friend. As I'm typing this, Blu is hanging out on my keyboard singing and prancing around...he's so cute. Gumdrop and I are just getting to know each other, so I'm not expecting much of her yet! She's super cute though
Cleaned up my room today lol. Probably will start working on the basement some more too now that I'm more house-bound again.
Blu and Gumdrop, the newest addition

adorable budgies. when lewis ends up going to kitty heaven i have thought about getting some finches for here in the house but since he is such an old cat (he's 20 this year) i figured I'd let him live without the temptation of birds in his house

goatgurl said:

adorable budgies. when lewis ends up going to kitty heaven i have thought about getting some finches for here in the house but since he is such an old cat (he's 20 this year) i figured I'd let him live without the temptation of birds in his house

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I think finches and canaries are cute, but I like the interaction and relationship that you build with budgies more than the cute visual and sounds from finches and canaries - but that's me
We have two cats, but they get a different part of the house!

Tomorrow is going to be busy! I have an order for breeding age rabbits for spring, so we have to get some hutches built so we can house them for winter. DH needs to get his pheasant run fixed so they can move from their temporary housing back to their own run, and we also have some other random repairs to do and we still have some housing swapping to do for the birds and rabbits.
Hopefully we'll get things sorted out
I'm actually looking forward to getting the rabbit hutches built. I always need more room for them for some reason...can't think of why that could possibly be...
I'm hoping that if it goes well and I like the setup of the hutches, that I can build extras to sell.
We'll see how it goes

i like the budgies more for interaction too, i use to have some years ago and they are so much fun and altho i have never had the finches i like their little tweeters and chirps, kind of like having the outdoors in. had a budgie years ago and had a Siamese cat at the same time and they got along well until one day i went to the store and when i came back i had a smiling cat and budgie feet on the bathroom floor. i swore never again to have both species in the same house at the same time. i was traumatized.
good luck on the bunny hutches. i have thought for sometime that i would like to raise rabbits but am trying to trim down for a while so I'm waiting to see if i get over the bunny want and if it doesn't go away then i will rethink it. i want to take a little bit of a breath before i get into something new.

So things are moving right along! Not feeling very chatty, so I'll just upload some pictures
Duck, duck, goose, and goaties...

Things are going pretty well. We managed to sell the majority of our excess stock, so we're just about ready for winter now. Have some reorganizing to do housing-wise, then we're good to go.
Still have some building/preparation to do for winter and I'm hoping we can get the majority of it done this weekend since we don't have plans for once. I need at least one more rabbit hutch for the winter and have a few minor repairs to do on some of the other housing and then we'll be ready for it.
I just hope it doesn't rain/isn't crappy so we can get the work done! The rain's been holding us back and since most of the work I can't do myself during the week, so it falls to the only times hubby isn't working!
So fingers crossed we can get stuff done today and tomorrow!

Hi! How's everything going? I've got to sell/ butcher some of our critters as well. And then I need a new chicken area built and some fixin up/ adjustments to the goat areas. Then I'll be just about ready for winter. We've already had a freeze down here in Texas. Brrr... excited about the prospect of snow, though. ( :

Wow, I haven't been on here in what seems like forever! Things have been going really well. We're well on our way to having all our goats bred for the spring, so that's always exciting!
Granny is due March, Maple in April, and I'm fairly certain Chance just got bred, judging by how Gruff has been blubbering, jumping, and wooing her the last couple of days
The rabbits are settled for the winter and we did manage to get the other hutch built, so they're set. The birds are doing well and I'm starting to look forward to spring hatching season already!
I'm going to try to be on a bit more again now
Here are some pictures of the goaties I took today. They're all so fluffy with their winter coats

So exciting! Long wait .... ugh!
I think fluffy coats are too cute especially when it is real cold and their face is fluffy.
The brown/white one is posing!

We will be finishing up when you start. We bred early this year.
Don't know what I was thinking.