Jodief100--- random stuff and BIG news

[elevan]

I love this pic! I feel so much motherly emotion from that doe.

 

[Roll farms]

Congrats on all the babies!

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

Too cute, thanks for sharing. My goodness, what is with all the boys? You are right about you being in the meat business. Congrats on all the babes.

 

[20kidsonhill]

congrats.

 

[autumnprairie]

 

[TTs Chicks]

 

[jodief100]

2 inches of snow this morning. First major snow all year and it happens the day after the tornados. They keep raising the death toll and what the national news isn't saying is there are 100's injured, many of them very seriously. Hubby had to change his route work because the road through Piner is still closed. It is a mess with several homes and a church destroyed. I knwo a boer goat farmer who lives not far from the church. I want to know if he is OK but I don't want to bother him by calling when he has more important things to deal with than satisfying my curiosity.

Molly and Nefer's babies are doing great. Molly had a little trouble but is doing well now. The triplets are adorable, they weighed in at 6 and 7 punds each. I didn't weigh Molly's boys yet but they are bigger. Butthead's babies are just crazy active. They were running all over the field yesterday. She is the only goat I have who can count. She knows when she is missing one, even when she can't see or hear it. They are driving her nuts chasing after them on her short little legs. The babies were 7 lbs at brith and she is only 80 lbs herself.

Everyone was tucked into the barn this morning while Jack and Snowey wrestled out in the snow. The dogs love the snow.

I found something had challenged my electronet when I did my walk around the other day. A six fot long section of vertical stays is torn from the top horizontal. We had a whole pack of coyotes with young pups a few weeks ago I wonder if it was them. Jack and Snows chased them off before I could see excatly what was going on but I coudld tell from the calls there was at least 3 adults and several young ones. My neighbor says he is tracking them on his game cams and plans on taking some of them out. They are getting too numerous and starting to threaten pets and livestock. He and 2 of his boys were out this weekend till late so I hope they got some.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We got around 4 inches of snow and a snow day for the kids, but it is already mostly melted. I don't have TV, so reading your comments about the tornadoes helps me keep up, as well as a few comments on facebook. It really does put things in perspective and the little things about farming don't seem like such a big deal when you think about something like a tornado taking out your entire farm or even worse causing injury or taking lives.

Did the families that were going to come out ever make it or did the weather delay their visit?

 

[jodief100]

Most of the families made it but 2 were no shows. I don't know if it was weather or not. I have 4 left and I am selling them to the low income kids for a side of pork and some sorguhm syrup. Sometime things work out.

Lots of work to do in the comming weeks. Spring shelters need to be put up, pastures bushhogged and I want to get a path cut in the woods so I can string my electronet in there. And fences......neverending fences.

Got an email from someone wanting does... :/

I made a deal with the local farm store. They get chicks in once a week and if they still have some of the previous weeks chicks left they are difficultt to sell. So I said I will come and get all of the previous weeks chicks for $0.50 each. They agreed but I have to take them all. I can make this work, I just hope I don't get too many ducks. I hadn't planned on ducks.

 

[yankee'n'moxie]

Wow! That is a good deal! And even if you get more duck than you want you could always sell them yourself! Like on craigslist or at a poultry swap (do they have those around where you live?)..... I would snatch that in a heartbeat!! You could sell them easy around here!