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lorihadams
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I am working with a breeder that only dam raises her babies and that is how I prefer it actually, better for the babies, IMHO. When she was explaining to me why she did it I stopped her and said, "Barb honey, I breastfed both of my children, I get it and I totally agree with you! "
She breathed a huge sigh of relief....lots of people that come to her want to take the baby home immediately and just bottle feed but she really wants them to be as healthy as possible so she dam raises them until they are 8 weeks old and then I can bring them home! We are still waiting for the other "ladies in waiting" as she calls them. Depending on what happens we may try to take another baby....Chad was eyeing some of the little black does last night and said, "why don't we take those, they're really cute!" I'm gonna need a bigger barn.
We got the estimate for our barn and it came in around $15000. I didn't think it was too bad, I figured it would be way more than that. Running water, electricity, storage, milking room......I can't wait!
Doing the driveway this weekend....1150 feet. Man, that's a lot of gravel to buy. We think it will end up being about $3000-4000 just for the gravel. My papa and daddy are coming up tonight and bringing an extra tractor with a box blade so that will help. Chad's uncle is letting us use his tractor with a blade and a disc so between the two we should get it done.
Baking bread this morning, ate a dozen eggs for dinner last night. Made omelets with spinach, onions, ham and cheese. Boy they were good, but QA has me thinking about tacos now!
Got beautiful weather today, supposed to be in the 70s!!! I've already got 3 loads of laundry on the line and a fourth load waiting to go out!
My runners presented me with 3 eggs this morning! I have been looking at the catalogs from Hoegger Supply and Meyer Hatchery and drooling. I am thinking about getting some BLRW, golden and silver laced wyandottes, dominiques, and maybe some black copper marans and buff orpingtons. I want to have a nice mix of egg layers. Then I can decide what breeds I really like and narrow it down to maybe one or two to breed later. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it!
I'm trying to decide what to get for the goats....I could buy everything but I know that I only need certain things for now. We are also trying to decide what to do for the fencing. Chad wants to run 7 strands of electric wire for the goat pastures. His uncle wants to put a few calves out in the front pasture so electric is all we would need but it makes me nervous just having electric for the goats. We need something more solid for the chicken run and duck run and I have to have fencing around the garden so I am thinking to just use goat fencing for the upper pasture for the goats and other critters and run electric in the lower pasture for now for the cows. It will be more cost up front but I think it will look better to do it that way cause we are putting the chicken run next to the goat run off the barn and it would look weird if we mixed it.
She breathed a huge sigh of relief....lots of people that come to her want to take the baby home immediately and just bottle feed but she really wants them to be as healthy as possible so she dam raises them until they are 8 weeks old and then I can bring them home! We are still waiting for the other "ladies in waiting" as she calls them. Depending on what happens we may try to take another baby....Chad was eyeing some of the little black does last night and said, "why don't we take those, they're really cute!" I'm gonna need a bigger barn.
We got the estimate for our barn and it came in around $15000. I didn't think it was too bad, I figured it would be way more than that. Running water, electricity, storage, milking room......I can't wait!
Doing the driveway this weekend....1150 feet. Man, that's a lot of gravel to buy. We think it will end up being about $3000-4000 just for the gravel. My papa and daddy are coming up tonight and bringing an extra tractor with a box blade so that will help. Chad's uncle is letting us use his tractor with a blade and a disc so between the two we should get it done.
Baking bread this morning, ate a dozen eggs for dinner last night. Made omelets with spinach, onions, ham and cheese. Boy they were good, but QA has me thinking about tacos now!
Got beautiful weather today, supposed to be in the 70s!!! I've already got 3 loads of laundry on the line and a fourth load waiting to go out!
My runners presented me with 3 eggs this morning! I have been looking at the catalogs from Hoegger Supply and Meyer Hatchery and drooling. I am thinking about getting some BLRW, golden and silver laced wyandottes, dominiques, and maybe some black copper marans and buff orpingtons. I want to have a nice mix of egg layers. Then I can decide what breeds I really like and narrow it down to maybe one or two to breed later. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it!
I'm trying to decide what to get for the goats....I could buy everything but I know that I only need certain things for now. We are also trying to decide what to do for the fencing. Chad wants to run 7 strands of electric wire for the goat pastures. His uncle wants to put a few calves out in the front pasture so electric is all we would need but it makes me nervous just having electric for the goats. We need something more solid for the chicken run and duck run and I have to have fencing around the garden so I am thinking to just use goat fencing for the upper pasture for the goats and other critters and run electric in the lower pasture for now for the cows. It will be more cost up front but I think it will look better to do it that way cause we are putting the chicken run next to the goat run off the barn and it would look weird if we mixed it.
He has gone duck crazy!!! Wifezilla, help! He's coming over to the dark side!!! 
