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my goats were telling me all the horrors of the dangerous sky falling wet stuff this evening at bedtime youd think rain melted them

my body hates me. Back is pasaming something wicked... and as if to say "don't forget me" my right arm is playing up (nerve damage) alternating general numbness with intense pins and needles.... and my left side sciatic nerve is having a tantrum, so my butt cheek and left leg hurt... and my left...

same here I think.... I pulled 6 dead youngsters out of the water tough outside this morning... :sick weve had some wacky weather. took the last 2 off the hen and put them in the broodr with the others, poor girl is NOT happy and it currently brooding the brooder, shes sat ontop of it wings out...

no sooner did I head outside did the post office called. 6 welsh harlequin ducks a pair of pilgrim goslings and a male khaki campbel all in the brooder in the barn. :) nice looking group of babies too! rabbit run was a bust, apparently fate says no on that one, but its ok. lost 2 of the...

a little bit... none of them are halter trained yet...so that part was fun, (a lot of "NOPE" going on lol) but once I got em clipped up the boys were actually realy well behaved... the girs...a little more opinionated about the situation. our big girl goldie dang near had a panic attack, and our...

well we now have 4 shorn alpace... its certainly not pretty, and its certainly not smooth... but I got most of the blanet off in nice whole pieces and got the necks clean....which means they wil be cooler and we have wool to play with. to be honest next year I may just have a team come in and do...

thank you :) I think itll end up being cheap Walmart or ikea pecial that I can personalize...but we'll see. moved 1 of the broody hens and 2 of the goslings (hers and one form under the 2 in the shared nest) to a large cage, theres 1 more under the pair still damp, and another on his way...

well 45 bales of hay in the barn...we lost 1 to mold from sitting in the trailer...and 3 well probably loose 1-2 end flakes...the trailer leaks...not bad but enough that sitting in there for a few weeks getting wet and hot...the badly molded one will get tossed onto the compost and used as...

lol! ain that the truth...easier to ask forginess than permission lol. more progress...banty pen is done, brd netting up and lil roo and the 2 young silkies are in. got a lead on some more silkie hens I might go pickup tomorrow if I get everything else I need to do...done. dad wants to head...

our one pilgrim girl is just the sweetest! we couldn't find any last year and dad wanted "big white geese" so we got embdens to keep her company...the embdens are nice (though the male is currently a little bit of a handful due to hormones) but my personal long term goal is realy heritage and...

still alive.... just emotionally and physically drained right now. I lost 2 rabbit litters (they were supposed to pay for the fed for sumer since I don't beed during the hottest months) to weaning enteritis of some kind...ive neve rhad issues like that 1 dropped then the next then the next...

now I seriously hurt... moved wood and brush all afternoon...body hates me but at tleast the area I want to set up the butchering station is clear! I think im going to go curl up in he shower now ... does anyone know if health insurance will pay for the purchase of a hot tub...for medical needs...

LOVE the face in the wall :D he makes me smile! the marbles as a gazing ball is cool too!!! so far this morning ive moved the big log pile at the side of the barn ot the barn porch, it now in 3 piles, pile 1: what should fit in the stove...pile 2: what im just not sure about, and pile 3 which...

especially after pricing up lumber... I priced up a few options, 1 was to do 2 layers of 6" boards but dd didn't want the etra work so paid the extra for the wider planks... we now have 4 (of what will eventually be 11 4x8 beds if my math is right...we also have room for a 2x20ft and a 2x8ft...

I hope so I hate feeling likie the wheels are spinning. in good news though biz helped me today and the got 100ft of fence and a gate and the banty coop moved and set up. still need to finnish up the banty pen for little roo and his soon to be new ladies... and build the raied bed, but we do...

right?! I wouldn't be dealing with the bnb/people side of things so much, but I do think it could be great for momma whos very social. but I tought you know, get a farm property, ill be incharge of the livestock...breakfast would come freh form the farm, egg clooected daily from our own hens...

happy mothers day to all the mommas out there, be those kids human or otherwise! hit up the flea market late this morning, no good bargains this week (last week we got a stunning spinning wheel and a 8qt press in fantastic condition, both purchased for less than 1/4 their actual value (the...

added a second fan to the rabbitry yesterday and it made a good amount of difference so I think were ging to be ok this summer. picked up 5 Delaware chicks, were planning on putting them with the rhodebarrs as wed get sex links...and selling the little cockerelle we had tot take toget the 4...

I think so too :D were making progress...slowly but surely...lol didn't get too much done toay should have tidied my room or started moving the wood pile...but I didn't...so...it ended up being a lazy day...gotta not let that happen as much lol. sat out on the patio right now enoying the warmth...

well the rain decided to avoid us and I got some free trellis off the side of the road :D so...heres our rabbitry progress so far! still need white tarps for the front to finnish off and I want to add a top brace across the top of the fan/gate frame, ive got trim to finnish off the top edge...