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~54 here right now, clear blue skies, sun going down, just came in from collecting final (2) eggs and closing up the chooks. Supposed to be like this - up near 60 over next few days.
 

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~54 here right now, clear blue skies, sun going down, just came in from collecting final (2) eggs and closing up the chooks. Supposed to be like this - up near 60 over next few days.

for us the rest of the week will be in the teens, with negative numbers at night and negative windchills!
 

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took a few new pictures:

it's always nice to have help, Melanie likes to make sure that they got all the goodies!! She tips the hay bucket all the time!

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Here's one of Obie taken yesterday- you can go back and compare this picture to the one we posted in Jan 2016
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Here's Maggie taken yesterday too!!

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I am so ready for winter to be over :thwith the way our weather has been this season, there is a layer of ice under our snow which makes walking a dangerous thing!!

DD and I weighed Moose and Monkey the other day....Monkey is now 28.5 lbs and Moose is 23 lbs-

I think we are still dealing with the after effects of Moose being sick a month ago. Shortly after getting Moose's fever/respiratory issue under control, she developed major dry skin/flakes etc so treated her for mites. Flakes are gone but her coat is really dry, she has some bald patches and seems thin. Eating a mixture of grass/alfalfa hay plus some pellets. plan to run a fecal on her.
 

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Loved the pics! :love

You are gonna have lots of babies :celebrate

What you using to treat the mites?
I assume you are keeping the minerals out free choice?

I feel ya on the whole winter thing :barnie Thankfully we don't have it like y'all but we got ice last night and this morning :mad: Goats are staying locked up, I can't risk one of the bred girls slipping on it!
 

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Loved the pics! :love

You are gonna have lots of babies :celebrate

What you using to treat the mites?
I assume you are keeping the minerals out free choice?

I feel ya on the whole winter thing :barnie Thankfully we don't have it like y'all but we got ice last night and this morning :mad: Goats are staying locked up, I can't risk one of the bred girls slipping on it!

we are thinking at least 4 for Maggie, 3-4 for Obie, 1-2 for Coco and Melanie

we use 10% permethrin- it comes as a concentrate that we dilute down according to the instructions.

we keep the loose minerals out free choice as well- they go through the minerals some days like candy! Have to put more out today for them.

we sure don't need the bred does slipping on the ice- that was a big concern when Chester(our buck) kept jumping the fence-hot wire did the trick- he hasn't tried since we installed it!
 
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