NH Homesteader- turkeys!

NH homesteader said:

Well it got to 43 today. Heat wave! Lol

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Guess the squirrels got some of the Warmth up there to ya!!....ROTF!!

NH homesteader said:

I do too! I originally wanted to do separate dairy and meat goat herds. But I don't want a 250 lb meat goat! So I'll raise multiple little crossbreed meat goats. I think it freaks some people out when I talk about it but I seriously feel strongly that it's better to give excess males a purpose (even if that purpose is dinner!) than be responsible for them being bounced around from home to home. Male goats don't always have the best future.

Is that weird or does it make sense? Some wethers find good homes. Too many don't.

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That's not weird and you do make sense. You can't keep 'em all and sometimes you can't find homes for all of them. You raise them, you feed them, why should you sell them for someone else to eat the product of your labor?

Ah my little (human) girl is four today! Spent the morning pre cooking dinner (chicken pot pie, yeah from scratch, and Blackberry crisp with berries from the woods behind our house) and getting ready to take her to the kids science museum near us. Going to stop and get some ice cream to go with dessert on the way home. Having her party and cake Sunday. Mmmm

Well you just tell your little 'Herd Queen' a HAPPY and WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!!!!....from Way down South...and ya can give her my Scoop of Ice Cream....it would Melt before it got Here....LOL!!!....ya need to 'Cherish' these times....they truly don't last Long....and you will seemingly 'Turn Around' and she'll be out the 'Door'....goes real Fast!!

Happy B'day to her!

Blink your eyes and she'll be grown up and you'll wonder where time went. Blink twice and you'll have grand children. Treasure every moment.

She's gonna stay little forever and I don't wanna hear otherwise

NH homesteader said:

She's gonna stay little forever and I don't wanna hear otherwise

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If you do your job right, your tiny baby bird will grow up, stretch out her wings and fly away. If you screw it up, she'll never leave the nest. Your precious gift from God is yours for a short time, make it count.

Haha I'll try not to screw up too badly.

Tomorrow is my husband's birthday and we are celebrating our daughters birthday. Poor guy doesn't get any attention anymore.

Also, tomorrow is the day this darn pig is supposed to finally go. I love my animals... I really do. But it's almost November and my freezer is empty, and all the animals are still in my yard. He's not home today so I had to do chores alone. Now not to be a whiner but we have... 10 different pens/coops of animals that need to be fed. That's just annoyingly time consuming. Winter number will be... 5 I think. Poultry is time consuming. And the cockerels are getting really fiesty. Blah! OK complaining over!

I'm going to try to breed my Nigerian doe to my buckling in November. He doesn't seem interested yet so it might take a couple months. So I'll start early.

Alright folks you've got to hold me to this! I've decided to put off my sheep venture for a year. Instead of buying 2 ewes for probably $200/piece I am going to invest in a microscope to do fecals and a pygmy buck. No other new additions next year!

No tempting me!!!