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rachels.haven
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Hi, the hay is mostly gone. I think we can eat through the rest. Apparently it goes over well with cows and sheep. New hay comes on the 7th.
I've started breeding goats. Lamanchas should start up tomorrow.
Pepper the L*S lamancha buck, ai son of famed Little Orchard Pure Thrill, is going to have to give me lots of daughters next year and then leave if i cant remember to bring my personal defense shocker in the pen. He is 900% used to bullying women. I may need to make a point of having "words" with him every morning and evening when i feed. Sparky, shocky words. *Deep breaths* Be the electric fence.
Anytime i have to do anything "persuasive" when he comes at me instead of backing down and running away he puffs up even bugger and taller and cocks his head and looks at me down his cheek but doesn't "give" an inch or submit a thing. I usually let him have it a second time when this happens and he'll act like he "has better things to do" and sort of walk off, still puffed up like he's king of the pen.
Today i forgot and he wouldn't let me have a ND buck to breed the nd doe in heat despite maybe getting a lead rope buckle hard in the face when he came at me suddenly like a snake (cue more puffing up and regarding me coldly like an otherworldly king). But i got the gate closed in time. So i used one of my baby bucks in the barn and took away his girl on the other side of the fence to breed to another. Tonight i will see if my device still works and we will parley (probably safe from the other side of the gate first since he thinks he owns the space now). I haven't had to use it in a while and he's pretty wound up. Its just a pocket shocker for joggers, but i need short, grippable, reliable for when he's close enough to touch and not a long prod that can be knocked away.
Until a week or two ago i didn't need my little pink sparky thing to go in the pen. Stinking bucks.
I may be working on a separate pen for Pepper and the other big boys so i don't have to fight to get the little boys out. The ND and mini bucks are actually pleasant to handle.
I'm hoping I don't have to milk Pepper before i breed him...a little worried because he's pretty bagged up on one side. Needless to say he's NOT docile and the proud turd WOULD hit the roof.
I've started breeding goats. Lamanchas should start up tomorrow.
Pepper the L*S lamancha buck, ai son of famed Little Orchard Pure Thrill, is going to have to give me lots of daughters next year and then leave if i cant remember to bring my personal defense shocker in the pen. He is 900% used to bullying women. I may need to make a point of having "words" with him every morning and evening when i feed. Sparky, shocky words. *Deep breaths* Be the electric fence.
Anytime i have to do anything "persuasive" when he comes at me instead of backing down and running away he puffs up even bugger and taller and cocks his head and looks at me down his cheek but doesn't "give" an inch or submit a thing. I usually let him have it a second time when this happens and he'll act like he "has better things to do" and sort of walk off, still puffed up like he's king of the pen.
Today i forgot and he wouldn't let me have a ND buck to breed the nd doe in heat despite maybe getting a lead rope buckle hard in the face when he came at me suddenly like a snake (cue more puffing up and regarding me coldly like an otherworldly king). But i got the gate closed in time. So i used one of my baby bucks in the barn and took away his girl on the other side of the fence to breed to another. Tonight i will see if my device still works and we will parley (probably safe from the other side of the gate first since he thinks he owns the space now). I haven't had to use it in a while and he's pretty wound up. Its just a pocket shocker for joggers, but i need short, grippable, reliable for when he's close enough to touch and not a long prod that can be knocked away.
Until a week or two ago i didn't need my little pink sparky thing to go in the pen. Stinking bucks.
I may be working on a separate pen for Pepper and the other big boys so i don't have to fight to get the little boys out. The ND and mini bucks are actually pleasant to handle.
I'm hoping I don't have to milk Pepper before i breed him...a little worried because he's pretty bagged up on one side. Needless to say he's NOT docile and the proud turd WOULD hit the roof.
