rachels.haven 2026 kidding,lactation&farm journal

[Ridgetop]

He wasn't that old - his daughter was just starting college. Wonder where he is.

@Baymule - you can be my poster if I die. DH has no clue how to get into this site, and although he sometimes reads the posts it would not occur to him that I have friends on here who might want to know. Our children think we don't have any friends anyway so they won't try to notify anyone. LOL

Now I am wondering if I should go back and download all my posts and print them off for my children for posterity.

 

[Finnie]

It does look rather concerning. Bruce had been active on BYC long after he stopped posting here. But I just checked, and he hasn’t been on BYC since November.

I didn’t look at his latest posts. Maybe he mentioned something in them.

 

[Finnie]

Well I had a chance to look up Bruce’s last posts on BYC. It looks like he hasn’t posted there in over 14 months. In 2023 he was posting regularly but in 2024 it dropped down to roughly monthly.

His posts sound like he was becoming less active around his farm, so yeah.

 

[Ridgetop]

Was it his health that was bad or his wife? Or maybe a daughter? I remember he had a vegan daughter. I think his wife might have still been working.

I don't mind getting old (rather I accept it) the bad part is losing the friends I care about.

 

[farmerjan]

@Bruce 's wife worked at the P.O.... the one daughter married here in VA but I do not have many details, so wouldn't know who to look up.... other daughter was at the college in Canada... this was a couple years ago...

And we totally distracted @rachels.haven from her kidding journal....

 

[Baymule]

Conversations change course, and veer off in a different direction. It just makes things more interesting. Y'all can highjack my threads anytime!

 

[rachels.haven]

I dont mind. You all had me worried something happened for a brief moment, but other than that... meandering is not a problem.

 

[rachels.haven]

Today i turned out the 3x broken leg yearling. Her healing period is done. Unfortunately she's got a huge knot over the break (breaking one leg twice will do that). I remember from the x ray that her toe bones looked rotated forward in her hooves. They didn't look off then, but they certainly do now that the hoof has grown out, probably from all the swelling. Founder, i guess. I trimmed her even with the growth lines today but I'm going to give her more time running around to see how she uses it then come up with a plan for trimming her. Dirt bag teenager. It's really frustrating the way she's treated herself. We'll have to see what we can do, i guess.

The saanen yearling out on pasture on the other hand has really nice feet, which is a weird thing to find myself saying the way saanen feet usually are. She also has incredibly good stand manners and is very mild tempered. I hope they're all like her.

 

[Baymule]

She also has incredibly good stand manners and is very mild tempered. I hope they're all like her.

Are you sure this really is a goat?

 

[Mini Horses]

My Saanen are much better tempered...quieter, more compliant to handle in an overall sense.