Jodief100--- random stuff and BIG news

[jodief100]

No babies yet.

The Hoggers box had a soap making kit and the Mozzarella cheese kit. Now I need to figure out how to make Mozzarella.

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

No babies yet.

The Hoggers box had a soap making kit and the Mozzarella cheese kit. Now I need to figure out how to make Mozzarella.

YAH !!! I want that !!! Boy ... in a few days that will be on MY doorstep !!! That is so wonderful ... I'm sure you will LOVE MAKING CHEESE !!

 

[Ms. Research]

Hoping you had a Great Christmas.

How's Ginger doing? Any babies yet? Or is she still holding out on you?

K

 

[jodief100]

Ginger is still holding out. I think she is going to wait awhile. She likes room service. A few others are really starting to show udder growth. I think we will start to see some babies either this week or next. Of course, since I said that they will wait until February.

I also got a Dallas Cowboy's shirt!

 

[jodief100]

Ginger no longer has discharge. If she is still like that tomorrow I am going to let her back out. She will be so disappointed. She likes not having to fight for the grain. I have about 30 linear feet of grain feeder for 37 does. That would be plenty but the goats like to stick their heads through to eat from the one on the other side so that cuts the space down considerably. Every night I go out to feed them and they crowd the feeders and tend to trap me between them. Then I have to pour the grain over their heads. We have a little ritual where I try to get in a feed them and remind them if they knock me over and trample me to death they won't get any more grain.

Hubby and his boy are off on a backpacking trip. I would have loved to go but it just wasn't in the cards. My neighbor, bless his heart insists on sending his boy over several times during the night to check on things when Hubby is gone. I keep telling him anyone breaking in would be better off doing it when hubby is home. Hubby will at least give them an opportunity to explain themselves before shooting them. But my dear neighbor insists and since his boy doesn't work a "normal" job it doesn't hurt him any to come over and check. Neighbor's boy was Manning's back-up at the Giants for a few years and is a BIG boy (official stats are 6'4" and over 250 lbs)) so no one is going to mess with him. I think he enjoys feeling needed and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by telling them it isn't necessary.

So I am safe, but I miss my boys.

We are on shutdown at work for the week so I hop to get lots of work done this week. I need to move the nets and really want to get the hoophouse built. But doing a thorough cleaning of the house is also on the list.

 

[autumnprairie]

what is a hoophouse?

 

[Ms. Research]

We have a little ritual where I try to get in a feed them and remind them if they knock me over and trample me to death they won't get any more grain.

lol. 37 goats would leave a few bruises. 37 times 4. Yep.

Sorry to hear Ginger is still holding on to those babies. Maybe New Years babies?


Sweet neighbors. That's really nice that they worry about you when your DH and his boy is gone. Not many out there like that any more.

Jealous that you have this week off to get things done. Wish I did. Absolutely dead yesterday and see this pattern for the rest of the week. Could be home doing things but sitting in an office. Hoping you get what you need done.

And same question as Autumnprarie: What's a hoophouse?

K

 

[jodief100]

It is raining again!!!!
The creek is over the bridge so it must have been raining for awhile before I got up. It is only about 6" deep so it is no problem driving over, all this wet and muck is just frustrating. I can't get anything done outside in this so I guess the house cleaning takes priority.

Yes I have nice neighbors. Funny thing is they don't even live there. It is their hunting property. J- who owns the place has 6 or 7 sons (I can never remember, I think there are 10-12 kids total) and a few grand kids to boot. So there is a pretty regular stream of people coming in and out, especially during hunting season which for bow is September thru March. They have to drive down the road that cuts down the middle of our place and then take the easement that goes down our driveway to get to their place so they have a good idea what is going on. Little J (J's youngest boy) was over there yesterday and I guess he saw hubby's car wasn't there when he left because Big J showed up about an hour later. I was unloading feed from the car and he helped out. That boy put 2 50 lb bags of feed on his shoulder then picked up another 2 and carried them up the porch steps into the house like they were nothing. Took him two trips to empty my car and it would have taken me eight. It was awful nice of him. I learned a long time ago never offer them anything other than a drink or they get offended.

A hoop house is a mobile house for chickens (or a greenhouse depending on who you are talking to).

My design is different but this gives you the idea. Mine uses cattle panels as opposed to the pipe and wire and I will have roosts and a nest box.

Ginger has discharge again. I guess she heard me say I was going to let her out and she decided she wants to stay in the Hilton with her own grain and not have to fight for sleeping space.

Forecast is raining turning to light snow. Not enough to freeze the ground.

 

[autumnprairie]

It is raining again!!!!
The creek is over the bridge so it must have been raining for awhile before I got up. It is only about 6" deep so it is no problem driving over, all this wet and muck is just frustrating. I can't get anything done outside in this so I guess the house cleaning takes priority.

Yes I have nice neighbors. Funny thing is they don't even live there. It is their hunting property. J- who owns the place has 6 or 7 sons (I can never remember, I think there are 10-12 kids total) and a few grand kids to boot. So there is a pretty regular stream of people coming in and out, especially during hunting season which for bow is September thru March. They have to drive down the road that cuts down the middle of our place and then take the easement that goes down our driveway to get to their place so they have a good idea what is going on. Little J (J's youngest boy) was over there yesterday and I guess he saw hubby's car wasn't there when he left because Big J showed up about an hour later. I was unloading feed from the car and he helped out. That boy put 2 50 lb bags of feed on his shoulder then picked up another 2 and carried them up the porch steps into the house like they were nothing. Took him two trips to empty my car and it would have taken me eight. It was awful nice of him. I learned a long time ago never offer them anything other than a drink or they get offended.

A hoop house is a mobile house for chickens (or a greenhouse depending on who you are talking to).

My design is different but this gives you the idea. Mine uses cattle panels as opposed to the pipe and wire and I will have roosts and a nest box.

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/1751_hoophousel.jpg

Ginger has discharge again. I guess she heard me say I was going to let her out and she decided she wants to stay in the Hilton with her own grain and not have to fight for sleeping space.

Forecast is raining turning to light snow. Not enough to freeze the ground.

Thank you for the pic of the hoophouse,
I agree on the rain it poured here all day yesterday the flood in my yard is past my ankles. and today it is windy and colder but not freezing.

 

[daisychick]

I want to build a hoop house for my meat chickens this spring. Curious about your hoop house plans. What kind of wire are you planning on putting over the cow panel?? Do you think if I put regular chicken wire over a cow panel that it would keep a fox out? That is about all we have for chicken predators around here. You will have to show us your finished one when you make it.

Come on Ginger we want to see babies!!!!!