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Oh yes, and we also got back our first 2 lambs from the butcher! I can't wait to try our own grass-fed meat.

This past week has been a good week. I sold two bottle baby goats and paid for most of the winter's hay!:yesss: It's such a good feeling to have the barn stacked with sweet-smelling bales. My little sister has been climbing all over them. I think she wishes she could live on a haystack. We have...

I wish I had someone to teach me! I watched sooo many youtube videos, but in the end I still didn't feel like doing it without hands-on guidance. I want to do it, but I don't want to fail and hurt the babies or be left with scurs.

Thanks! I'll be on the look out for one this fall/winter so I can have one for spring breeding. I might take you up on that:)

When I bought them, I knew almost nothing about conformation. Now I wish I had, but at least now I know better, and all my future goat purchases will be much wiser.

Thanks! That was SUPER helpful. I have been doing a lot of studying on conformation, and you confirmed a lot of my pros and cons. Btw, Iris isn't quite as good as you think. That was the best pic I could get, normally her rear leg angulation is about as posty as Bridget's, depending on her...

Poor buddy. One of our cats got bit by a snake and his paw swelled up. All the hair fell off, and he sure looked weird with a bald paw for a few weeks. I hope Sentry feels better soon!

I'm really excited about this buckling's conformation! I guess it might be too early to tell for sure, but he looks fantastic, even compared to his brother. Look at that straight topline and level rump! I sure hope he keeps it.

That's what happens when you put a little sister, a hat and a dog together 😂

Moses in a hat

One of our kunekunes went off feed the morning before she gave birth, and didn't eat for a full day afterward, the other ate right before farrowing AND right after, so it just depends on the pig. But it sounds like you're getting close! If you can handle her at all, try squeezing one of her...

Beautiful lamb!

That's why I don't have guineas. :lol:

We have a chicken unceremoniously dubbed "Houdini". She is a lovely fluffy-butted golden laced wyandotte with absolutely no brains. She knows how to get out of the fence, boy does she know! But she doesn't know how to get back in without a lot of help on my part and much panicking on her part...

The bucklings were disbudded this morning. Apparently the vets around here disbud goats by cutting off the hornbud with a knife, then cauterizing the blood vessels with a calf disbudding iron vs. burning the hornbuds with an iron made for goats. It was pretty bloody, but he did use lidocaine to...

Huntsville/Conroe used to be our old stomping grounds when we lived in Houston. My dad lived in Huntsville for a long time and we had good friends who have a farm in New Waverly. My first camping trips were at Huntsville state park. This brings back old, good memories!

We've never tried homemade, but we've had good success with production using Nutrena Naturewise 18% protein feed. We tried several other brands and egg production went down each time.

I may try that. Our hens egg production peaked last winter because we had fall chicks, but this year they are spring pullets. I don't know how well they'll lay through the winter. I'll find out I guess. Our few hens left from last year are moulting, looking awful and not laying. Except my...

We had rain last night! Desperately needed rain. And we finally have a break in the Texas heat, whew. It's going to be in the blessed 80's and low nineties for the next week or two, hopefully for the rest of the summer/fall. I'm trying hard to sell my kunekune piglets. It's not going so well. I...

Yeah, same with my doelings. I think I'm going to keep the appt. with my vet and take the doelings then, because they are a week old and I can't feel the hornbuds at all, so I think they will be fine to wait until three weeks, especially the runt. I called a different vet and got an appt. for...