SBC/GW's Journal- Spring shows DONE! & Update

[B&B Happy goats]

Thank you. All our hay already comes from up North. The issue for us is finding bedding- cuz you know they will still try to eat anything we lay down. Some places the mud will suck the boot right off your foot. I avoid those areas LOL No fun trying to stand and hop on one foot while trying to get your foot back in. (Not a pretty site)

That does not appeal to me at all, mud sucking you boot off.....i couldn't balance myself to get my boot back on ! Well all i can do is wish you drier weather.....sorry things are so soggy for you

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I just checked rainfall for our area and we are at 68" for the year, average is 45" it all seems to come at once. During the summer, nobody could cut hay for lack of rain, then somebody turned the tap on and it hasn't quit. Hang in there, the rain will slow down, eventually.

Are bags of dried beet shreds available in your area? I am feeding them to Pearl, our starved mare and she is gaining weight and not eating as much hay. She is getting the roughage she needs from the beet shreds. I soak them in water for about 15 minutes before I give them to her.

A bag is $13.50 at the feed store an hour away where we buy our horse feed, $16.50 at one that is in the next town closer to us. I don't use them as a total hay substitute, but they certainly cut down on the hay bill for Pearl. Square bales are $9.75 to $13.00 and she was eating one every 3 days. Now she goes through a bale a week.

I don't know how beet shreds would do for your goats, maybe a little each day would help with the hay bill.

https://www.ruralking.com/beet-pulp...MIm_qOsJ3F3wIVhMVkCh2pBQK6EAQYAiABEgJt_vD_BwE

We feed that exact beet pulp

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Saw this on FB. Couldn't stop laughing. This has happened a time of two!

 

[Southern by choice]

or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6....

 

[Bruce]

Saw this on FB. Couldn't stop laughing. This has happened a time of two!

I guess you better skip steps 4-6 if you don't want to have a thousand goats!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Guilty as charged..

 

[luvmypets]

Some places the mud will suck the boot right off your foot. I avoid those areas LOL No fun trying to stand and hop on one foot while trying to get your foot back in. (Not a pretty site)

With the amount of rain we have had, over half the pig run is “that” kind of mud. Back in november my dad told me to go fish one of the waterers out of the part of their pen that is their summer wallow. So the mud is much deeper than you’d expect, even though I knew that I kind of rushed in . In my defense the ground looked kinda solid and I wanted to get it out of the way.. Needless to say I got stuck for 15 minutes. I spent about half of that time trying to get out on my own while calling for my dad who was in the barn. I couldnt even get my foot out of my one boot it was just suctioned in there. I actually managed to get my one boot free but my other leg was not moving. My dad took his time, probably thought I could get out on my own. He finally came out and pulled me out although I lost my boot in the process. Turns out an empty boot is much easier to get out than one with a foot in it. Moral of the story mud sucks!

 

[Bruce]

Sure does suck your boots off.

You should be happy he came to help and did so when he got there. Years ago I was digging a trench next to the house so I could connect a downspout to a foundation drain clean out. 4' deep. Side caved in some, enough that I couldn't get out. Of course for some reason the shovel wasn't in the trench with me or close enough to reach. DW came out, saw the predicament and got the shovel right? Nope, she went in the house to get a camera. No idea where the picture is, this was pre digital cameras.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

DW came out, saw the predicament and got the shovel right? Nope, she went in the house to get a camera.

I woulda done the same thing!!

 

[Bruce]

Wimmin!!