rachels.haven's Journal

[farmerjan]

You're fighting a losing battle with those kind of people... in that area... MD is another stupid state... with stupid people,. like Mass.....
If I were to talk to them again, they initiating the call... that since they did not call you right away, and took it upon themselves to keep and feed them, that you were not aware of what had happened and as far as you knew they were gone... so they are their responsibility. Losing them is not good with your animals drawing mice/rats...but, there are always more to find in the spring.... sad but a fact of life.

 

[rachels.haven]

You're fighting a losing battle with those kind of people... in that area... MD is another stupid state... with stupid people,. like Mass.....

True. Barely tolerable. It is a poop show. Even the Ag reserve (we ARE the animals/zoo exhibit on the reserve in their minds). We, backwards, primitive freaks on the ag reserve.

 

[Baymule]

That sucks. I don’t know how you put up with people like that.

 

[rachels.haven]

Sunday check in. Nothing to report. Playing "guess who's open" with the bred does. Nobody "bred" is staying glued to the fence lately, but nothing is more sexy than the grain in the buck pen's trough so every day I wonder. Baby Lamanchas are cycling though. And some ND kids I'm going to breed in November.

I've been having circulation issues lately. Realizing the lamanchas are hard for me to maintenance so I've been avoiding it so since I'm a one woman show they're not getting done as much as they need to be. I'm looking forward to cutting back to just the cream of my 2024 kid crop and maybe letting the cuts full sisters go too. If there are a bunch I like I may cut back to just a few lines...although if I can't figure out why my hands are losing circulation at night I may need to be prudent and cut back even farther and be stuck with just the minis and littles. It sort of looks like my raynaud's is going out of control and getting worse and worse as time goes on. I might need to address that. I keep looking at my hands and telling them, "I'm THIRTY-FOUR, you need to work like I'm thirty-four". And they in turn retaliate with hard nights and by day feeling like I smashed them (which means I can trim one standard goat's hooves before I need to stop, and oh man, those buck feet really challenge me, but I can get a half dozen dog sized ND in before I have to quit). Crappy circulation runs in the family. I'm annoyed. I've got things to do...lol. We live a LONG time.

It means sometimes in pics my hands look fat, and sometimes they don't, but they always look a little funny-skin doesn't appreciate it. But I'll survive. It's non life threatening and temporary.

Stewing about whether I should let this change things in my big picture or just putter along and do my best in the quiet time.

My poor pregnant Lamanchas don't want to be machine milked anymore. It started about a cycle after they were bred. They are acting sensitive and hand milking is more gentle. Unfortunately the FF take a long time to do by hand so they need the machine and I'm not doing both. I may dry the pregnants off a month early. I don't like being kicked when putting on and taking off (and keeping on) the machine!

 

[Mini Horses]

You'll find a way to handle as much as you want, you always seem to . What age is your oldest? Maybe time for assignments to help you.

 

[rachels.haven]

Weekly check in.
I'm still milking. Summer and Dot are still being brats on the stand now that they are pregnant.

Here she is looking for an opportunity to kick off the inflations. She's so mad. So is the goat to her left with the artistic red war paint eyebrows that she put on for the occasion.

She's watching me.

I think it's time to wean the difficults.

 

[Baymule]

Big, fat, pregnant, grouchy and obviously it is all your fault.

 

[rachels.haven]

Someone wanted my foundered Kastdemur's buck, Dator, so they turned them into these two, Myles and Beckett. They are twin brothers, but because I like breeding all my does on the same day so they all kid in the same week, I don't consider having two duplicate bucks a bad thing. They are AI sired by Lucky*Star's ME Henning, out of a doe who was also L*S sired and very, very L*S behind that. AND THEY ARE CHILL. No more spicy bucks.

So we'll have waaaay too many big bucks, but the space can handle it-Strageto, Myles/Beckett, and the Lucky4leaf/Little Orchard buckling if his feet don't splay on me. Still working on selling Pepper, who is still in prison. If he's not sold by the end of rut when he mellows he'll go back and he'll go for another spin and help next year. God (and Mark) gave me a neglected horse stable. I can use it to hold a well bred turd buck for the duration of rut every year if I have to.

 

[fuzzi]

Big, fat, pregnant, grouchy and obviously it is all your fault.

The buck did it!

 

[rachels.haven]

They pick a buck and throw themselves at him for 2 days every 18-21 days all rut. They beg, they stop eating, they whine, they pine, and gradually they lose interest. If I give them a date they quiet and don't do it again until next year. CLEARLY I should have had more of a spine, lol.