rachels.haven 2026 kidding,lactation&farm journal

[rachels.haven]

I also figure a neighbor can shoot a dog (as I've heard them do on a couple of occasions to their presumably loosing pit bulls) but shooting an electric fence is a bit trickier.

It's a stupid milestone, but the baling twine I used to tie open the feed and freezer room door when we moved in finally broke in today's storm. We've been here 1 door tying baling twine lifespan long.

 

[Ridgetop]

After we had scary neighbors try and break into our house a few times Mark wanted to fence the house too, but I wasn't sure it would hurt resale value.

I think I would fence the front yard so I could run a big barky dog, especially at night, for scary neighbors.

I would go along with Mark and Baymule and fence the front yard. If you can do the work yourselves, and if the amount of front yeard you want to fence is not too great, yoi can get the metal panels that look like wroght iron for about $120 for a 5' high x 8' long panel. The posts are about $20-30. The posts go in and then you measure the distance exactly for the next post and attach the fence panels to the posts with brackets. I installed the entire pool fence by myself 15 years ago. The panels held up very well and looked new when DS2 took them down. I was going to take them to Texas and put them up in my front yard, but gave them to DS2 to finish the fencing around his pool for the babies. He and DS1 had the entire fence up in 1 day. Using the brackets on the posts puts it together really fast. It looks very high end, and the cost runs about $15-20/foot which is inexpensive for a 5' high "wrought iron" fence. Lowes also sells th matching gate panels.

 

[rachels.haven]

Well, I'm probably going to have to tell the kids their chosen mini "pet" wether is not a good choice. He's made it his mission in life to hunt and eat hair-rip it out of your head and bolt it with the same intensity as starving goats do a bucket of grain. Today he got me. He sneaked up on me, grabbed my hair and ripped a whole bunch out. The rest of the bolted bunch that didn't get pulled out I managed to pull out of his gullet covered in cud because he SWALLOWED IT and now I stink like a mulch plant gone wrong and have a thin spot on the back of my head. "Sweet Heart" my bum. I was so mad I almost threw him in the buck pen for them to have fun with for the crime for the day. I still might. Going off this and the other castrated boys behavior, wethers may not be good pets. They seem to just be bucks without balls but the same stupid brains. Bites like a buck, just not looking to mate everything.