Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[babsbag]

I got the application for registration all signed and official so now I can say he is a "registered" buckling, even though I have to send them in or someone does. I will work on some pictures.

I saw the buckling today that I traded for Rocky and my is he pretty. My big buck puts out some very nice kids. Too bad you aren't looking for a big big boy. I believe that my buck is actually related to yours, Thunderheart ELR is my buck's bloodline too. Someone is supposed to be buying him but it seems that they have a hard time getting here to get him, so on Saturday he is going to a friend's house to service her does and get him out of my pen. YIPEE. I can separate my alpines and actually know when they are in heat and who the sire will be.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I would LOVE your big boy!!! ....but I would have to figure out where to put him. Not sure if he and Andy could bunk together or not. With everyone coming into rut already, I have my hands full with 4 boys! I have them in 2 pens but still! And of course the money thing too... I do have the pen Ravi and her baby just came out of.....(just thinking out loud...)

I will see how finances shake out in the next few weeks to see about Bellinis sister. It would be great if they could stay together.

My daughter and I are both taking Spanish at the local community college so I am looking at a few hundred for books/labs and then I need to cover my own class fees. I think she will qualify for a fee waver, not sure if I do. And my twins are seniors this year so I have to get their senior portraits and all their graduation stuff soon too! Of course the picture people took pics of the twins together so I have to get at least one of those besides their individual pics too....

 

[babsbag]

Well my BIG Boy decided that the girls on the other side of the fence were better than his and he totally disregarded the hot wire (a first), and went right through the stock panel. He has horns as I was going to show him, (yeah right) and I guess he just put his horns through the panels and shook them like crazy. Who knows who was in heat and who he bred, there were about 7 does in the pen, and none of them Boer And my poor Alpine buck that has no horns took a beating, physically and emotionally I am sure.

I think that he is going to a friend's house tomorrow to service her does for a while, and for that I am very grateful. I need the pen space badly and he obviously has a plan of his own. My bucks were together before rut, but not a good plan right now.

I understand the space and the money issues, just let me know if you want the doe and I will get DH to plan a trip to visit his brother.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

So it looks like we have a deal! Babsbag and I are swapping some dollars for goats! I get Bellinis sister and Rocky!

LOL! So much for all the "help" ....I didn't have to keep away from the evil craigslist....I should have stayed away from my goat friends and enablers on here!!! But everyone needs birthday and christmas presents right? Mine just happen to be of the caprine persuasion!

Been busy with work, spanish class, 4H, running kids to and from volunteer stuff.... DD is doing an emerald star project. She and 4 other 4H friends are putting on a judging day workshop, 5 groups of animals, 5 home ec, 5 general and teaching kids how to go about judging...... Should be really educational. We are supplying dairy goats, eggs, photos and a lesson in judging and giving reasons......

We had 5 more baby ducks hatch!

And we added a new duck (lavender) and drake (blue) from a pastor a few towns away, and another new duck (I think she is going to be half white with black and white stripes) we bought from the pet store in town. So now we have 4 different bloodlines for our muscovy breeding project. Have I mentioned Pennywise? He is actually from our own original line but he is pretty cool, giant yellow feet, big red nose, one blue eye.....and soon he will start the creepy hissing, hence the name of a creepy clown!

Pennywise the really cool and creepy clown

and our new blue drake

DD also has a few new pigeons,a second set of new babies that her pair hatched and a fantail pair that were a gift from my mom.

And I have 2 pure salmon faverolles girls that look like this! They are going in my breeding pen with Bucky my white, pure faverolles to see if we can make more white favs!

So that is mostly it....planning a Halloween party.....and trying to get a jump on cleaning the house.....

 

[ragdollcatlady]

The Halloween party turned out great!

Family and just a few friends....good food, great company!

A few of the choice dishes.....

The appetizer spread

Black widow spiders on deviled eggs

Brain anyone????

Shrunken heads floating in cider

This last one was the best...It is THE nightmare food from my childhood.... 2 of my brothers and I feel the same way about tamale casserole...We are convinced that our mother was indeed trying to poison us with it. Actually it was the dried then reconstituted, slimy green bell pepper pieces that she used that were the actual "poison"...but we all hate the dish and run screaming from it...so after he drove 3 hours to come to my party, we were on the subject of foods he disliked, and what did I choose to serve my beloved brother???? Why tamale casserole of course!!! The expression on his face was absolutely priceless... his words unrepeatable!!!! ..... but this is my version of the toxic dish and it is actually very good! In fact he had 2 servings!!!

Of course I chased my own children around the house with their nightmare food....canned artichoke soup!!!...

Like I said...fun times and fun food!

 

[Pearce Pastures]

THAT IS SO CUTE!!! How clever! Boy, we didn't even make it to trick-o-treating this year.

 

[norseofcourse]

Oh wow I have *got* to make those devilled egg spiders - love it!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I am in a pretty hot mood right now!

Friday, the neighbor dog from 2 doors down got into my back pasture and attacked my goats. He is a shih tzu, but he is the one that killed my ducks and injured my chicken a year or so ago. He is a nasty, mean little jerk, that growls and lunges at people too, so you can't even catch him to throw him out of the yard. Animal control gave them a warning the other time and suggested that they apologize and offer to pay restitution. They did not. I caught this same dog a couple weeks ago, in my back pasture scaring the goats but no one was injured then. HazelNutzzy is injured in her back leg somewhere. I don't see or feel any actual punctures but she seems sore and doesn't want too walk much. I gave her Banamine friday evening and some more this morning. I don't want to give her too much but I want her to be comfortable. Thankfully she is still nursing alot so between the extra nutrition and the support of still being with mom, hopefully she will recover quickly.

Mary, the in between neighbor has saved this same dog from being killed by her dogs in her own yard and warned the other guy that his dog is getting into her yard and causing problems. His response is that he doesn't have time to chase the the stupid dog. He is making this my problem and yet he isn't going to be very happy when I solve this problem my way.

On a better note, I spent several hours with Mary just catching up, we haven't had much time lately, but we love to talk over the fence when we do. We had dinner at her house with her husband and just talked for hours.... When I have baby goats, sometimes we will have "play-dates" on the weekend. I bring baby goats and they run all over her house, jumping on the furniture, cracking us up for hours, then peeing on her couch just before we leave....

Today we bred Andy to RavioliAnna, Jack to Katastrophe Jane and Crepe Suzette and tried to rebreed Georgia to Casanova (not sure if she didn't take or is just hormonal????) She is acting bucky towards all the girls that are in heat..... I am not liking Jack too much at the moment.....He is trying to destroy the fence and is kinda jerky in rut. Not too bad, but very annoying.

Rigatoni came up and snuck a few bites of minerals out of the can I was holding... That is major progress. I had to hold it at arms length, but who's counting? She is super shy and doesn't like to get very close, but really wanted what everyone else was getting. I try to take some minerals out once a week and fill the containers. I give the boys some in their containers and put some in a bucket for the girls, but the girls always want to eat it out of the coffee can like it tastes better, so I offer it to them all from the can as well.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Norse,

The spider eggs were sooo good! I think it is the perfect amount of olive to egg ratio myself....

 

[frustratedearthmother]

SSS....I won't tell!

Really, folks need to control their little monsters...