One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

Southern by choice said:

Thanks for the pics! We are ordering Monday... it will be a local "grit". Vet neighbor uses this and said all the horse stables use it... we will give it a try. I hope it works.

OFA how did you fare with all the rain last night? I know what you mean by the "ark". I am so ready to move. This am MUD everywhere. Gutters are not up on the moved buildings yet. Grrr...

Just puts me in a bad mood!

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Did you get your grit?
We called at 7 am and the truck was here at 8

Dh was suppose to call this am...
Probably just as well no delivery today as it poured rain all morning and then rain off/ on all day.

Southern by choice said:

Dh was suppose to call this am...
Probably just as well no delivery today as it poured rain all morning and then rain off/ on all day.

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Will it ever be dry again ?

OneFineAcre said:

Will it ever be dry again ?

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I know... it is awful. 2 of the buildings we took down and relocated didn't have the gutters up yet it has been almost 2 weeks and just from that a whole other section that WAS grass is trampled and is now mud!
I know you must be glad you got them up right away!
Bad enough where the goats go in and out... I am ready to build them a deck.

Just from reading about the water problems made me change my plans for my out buildings location. Not to mention I have a small mountain of rock that came from our driveway excavation that I was going to use as fill for an eroded ditch. I think now that I'm going to use it at the entrance to the barn.

Here's a better picture of taking out that back wall and opening the space up.




We got the first kidding stall in today, less the gate. I have to skip church tomorrow and get the gate done, and when Maurine and Rachel get home keep on working on the others. I can't do this by myself.

Clara Belle is on day 142. She is a first freshener who is 2 years 4 months old. She is way behind in our book. We put her with a buck when she was 13 months old but she didn't settle and we didn't realize she had not. So, now she's fat Clara Belle. All of our others were bred to kid in March and April, but we went ahead and bred her earlier than normal. The plan is to breed her again around the first of May so she will freshen a 2nd time before the State Fair. Her mom Zamia is our best goat. She has a similar shaped udder and those incredibly plumb teats like her mom. Hope she's half as good. Clipped her udder and backside today.

so what size is your stall?

with Clara Belle

The stalls are 6x8

Hens and Roos said:

so what size is your stall?

with Clara Belle

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the stalls are 6x8

day 143 and counting. looks like clara belle is going to get to initiate the first kidding stall.