We picked out two little la manchas! The older one is going to stay and be bred (she will be due around her second birthday). She is a smaller build but is very sweet. I can't wait to bring her home. The younger one was born in June and is still teeny tiny. She is a bit more skittish, but I...
We had two little surprises in our back field last month - ram and ewe twins from our girl, Marmalade. We thought she was infertile, as she had been exposed many times. We had no clue she was even pregnant. DH came home from work and went to take some water out to the flock. He sent our...
I haven't posted in a very long time, but I have been lurking :)
Ever since we went to the county fair in August, DH has been on a goatie kick.
I kept waiting for the mood to pass, but it hasn't. DH wants to go look at some La Manchas tomorrow night...for our date night...which is also our...
Thanks for the suggestions. I will let DH know and hopefully he can be the aggressive ram in this. :) The first time was supposed to be a fluke because the sump pump died. This time is definitely much bigger and worse, but I have faith that God will provide.
Oh, no, the sump pump is working overtime. There is flooding outside. We are the low point on our portion of the road, so all of the water is coming into our front, going around back, and pushing into the house.
Here are the babies:
Here is our daughters' room
And our sons' room
I haven't been on BYH in a long time because it seemed as though everything kept going wrong with my animals and I wasn't going to post until I had some good news.
Yesterday morning our Finn ewe, Clara, decided to bring forth her first young. We missed it (she didn't give any indication of...
Thanks for remembering this thread. I had posted about my ewe that sickened and died suddenly (her liver shut down). That was the same ewe in this post, my darling Thumbie. So she never had the opportunity to be a mama.