well its official my stubborn sides gonna come out. after all my seedling went mia i am going to re plant. i really want a fall harvest this year. my daughter keeps tryibg to solve the mystery six year olds. my husband and i have talked about getting rid of the goats for now but havent decided anything. current feed bill is 300 which is a good portion of our budget. mostly the increase is due to the four kids three of which will be processed. and he plans to finish the fence but it cost close to 2000 dollars to finish. so its one of those things of what can we afford compared to what is the best thing to do. the biggest issue is we one income family and the house we live in is a money pit that cant really be fixed all the way it a mobile home that i guessing atleast older then 17 years it was here for close to ten years before we moved in abd now we been here close to seven years so yeah its falling apart. every time we fix one thing another comes up. so we need to come with a plan.
my husband keeps bring up painted desert sheep lol i think he likes the idea of our own meat lol. this morning off to a slow i keep getting light headed the pollen high and probably not helping.
Can you cut down to one goat for milk, a buck to breed with.....then add two sheep to raise for the freezer ?
You have your hands and tummy full as it is with babies, perhaps cutting the feed bill for the animals, and just growing out a sheep or two will help you with less animal chores and save you some money ....
girl you need some rest too
thats another thing we looking at. its gotten abit crazy to be honest and i thinking of saling my buck as well after this year breeding session to get a boar buck as the kids will more then likely be used for meat and not for milk. we are either going down to two may be three at most and two will most likely just dam raise. i am worn i am hoping that everything settles with school and the house. this summer has been bad for bug invasion my husband had enough. as we dont own the home there a limit to how much we want to fix. it suppose to be left to him along with two acres in the will but. thats changed from time to time so makes him and me nervous. another reason we looking at getting rid of some of the animals and trying to cut bacj expenses. i am at the loint this year i am done with getting animals anytime soon i want to wait until this pregnancy over to really add anything if we do. the biggest thing is there a not really anyone i can get to watch the goats for us to go xamping or other things so it make it hard on the family adventures we want tp take. just need to find some sort of balance.
There is nonthing wrong with just taking a break for a few years from all the animals....if you are spending $300 a month now on feed...in 24 months you would save $7200.....now that is a nice chunk of change to save up for yourselves.
my husband feels bad if i get rid of the goats completely i am kinda okay with it. but that could be me being tired talking. i did not get any of the birds processed this weekend my husband wants tp re organize our room next another words my job... i also need to do a deep cleaning again. my husband wants to try an bug and animal proof the house along with weather proof it which means i need to clean walls and trim to get it ready for him to caulk. either way there are way to many jobs for me right now lol. we been having spiders, ants and all manner of bettles coming in
... i am over bugs we cant spray inside or outside with heavy insectacides because of kids (pregnant lady) and animals last time he did it ended up killing close to ten birds so yeah no.
yup it is quite abit. i am hoping to bake some and possible work on my daughter quilt again. there just seems to be a never ending list of things to do lol. my friends that havent any animals i am not sure how they dont get bores but i suppose thats why they do the co-ops, 4h and the dance classes. honestly would not mind the 4h and i think lucy would love to do dance but that stuff can be pricey. stuff to think about (plus some of the dances they do around here arent appropriate in my opipion what six year old) (might be showing my old self there lol). i figure my kids get lots of things others dont plently of life experiences on a farm and in a house of six lol.
yup it is quite abit. i am hoping to bake some and possible work on my daughter quilt again. there just seems to be a never ending list of things to do lol. my friends that havent any animals i am not sure how they dont get bores but i suppose thats why they do the co-ops, 4h and the dance classes. honestly would not mind the 4h and i think lucy would love to do dance but that stuff can be pricey. stuff to think about (plus some of the dances they do around here arent appropriate in my opipion what six year old) (might be showing my old self there lol). i figure my kids get lots of things others dont plently of life experiences on a farm and in a house of six lol.
this is daisy i planning on saling her or processing her. her udder support is the better of my two milking does however her (you heard me complain about hers before) teats suck in size in comparison. her one teat that points back and both leak up high.... she a pain i am pretty sure most likely will end up in freezer.. i dont want to sale a goat who (just started) head butting my kids she only done it once to one boy and then was going to head butt my youngest until i yelled at her . she never done it to me or my daughter but not the point. plus she a brat on the stand. this morning she decided she was done and layed down and spilit the jar i had completely full of milk. would you sale or just butcher?