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lorihadams
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I think Bered's first birth was last year if I'm not mistaken so this would be her second year giving birth but I was wrong about Aliana, I thought she was younger until I started poking around yesterday. I think she will be honest with me, she has been so far.
She is selling the two I was supposed to get with their kids as "pet quality" with the full disclosure of what happened with their births and the understanding that they are not bred next season.
I think she just wants me to have two proven milkers. She has told me that their teats are longer than average, she tries to breed for that, and that they are very easy milkers. I think she was going to do milk tests on all her does this year and me taking two of them might make it easier on her
I definitely want Bered, I love that goat. I don't know whether I want to take Aliana or try to take her doeling that was born in march. I signed on for two in milk but since Aliana is older than I thought then I might try to get her doeling. She is a good size from what I can tell but I'll have to talk to her and see what she wants to do. I told her that if it came down to it I would take one in milk and one doeling that I could breed for next year.
It may be easier that way cause then I could milk Bered a little later if her milk production keeps up and then breed the doeling in the early winter for a spring birth, then dry up Bered and let her rest and breed her early next year for a summer birth to stagger the milking a bit. That way they are on different cycles and I can have milk longer during the year. That and I don't have 2 does with babies all at once. I don't know, still have to talk to her.
On a lighter note...we got a lot of stuff planted yesterday now that the torrential rains are gone. I got in lettuces, cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, beets, swiss chard, spinach, second round of carrots, potatoes in cages, brussel sprouts, peas and sunflowers. Hopefully everything will be okay. I'm going to wait a couple of weeks and plant more leaf lettuce so it will be ready to harvest before I replant the same space with pumpkins and watermelons.
We also got our bee hives set up....the spot is further up from the goat barn along the fence but with the bees facing BIL's house away from the goat pasture. It will get full sun most of the day and we are going to use ratchet straps to hold them to the table hubby built. We had a small deck that my granny had under the deck of her house at the lake that she put the freezer on. It is long and narrow and perfect for the beehives. Chad took one of the tier poles we salvaged from my great granddaddy's tobacco barns and made legs for it to get it up off the ground and it turned out beautifully. It would potentially hold 3-4 hives but for now we have 2. The bees should be coming the first weekend in May.
I'm pretty sure all my strawberries are dead so it looks like I'll be looking for some new plants while I'm out and about today....Frawg has to go for her last lyme vaccine shot this morning and then we are off to run errands.
She is selling the two I was supposed to get with their kids as "pet quality" with the full disclosure of what happened with their births and the understanding that they are not bred next season.
I think she just wants me to have two proven milkers. She has told me that their teats are longer than average, she tries to breed for that, and that they are very easy milkers. I think she was going to do milk tests on all her does this year and me taking two of them might make it easier on her
I definitely want Bered, I love that goat.
I don't know whether I want to take Aliana or try to take her doeling that was born in march. I signed on for two in milk but since Aliana is older than I thought then I might try to get her doeling. She is a good size from what I can tell but I'll have to talk to her and see what she wants to do. I told her that if it came down to it I would take one in milk and one doeling that I could breed for next year.It may be easier that way cause then I could milk Bered a little later if her milk production keeps up and then breed the doeling in the early winter for a spring birth, then dry up Bered and let her rest and breed her early next year for a summer birth to stagger the milking a bit. That way they are on different cycles and I can have milk longer during the year. That and I don't have 2 does with babies all at once. I don't know, still have to talk to her.
On a lighter note...we got a lot of stuff planted yesterday now that the torrential rains are gone. I got in lettuces, cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, beets, swiss chard, spinach, second round of carrots, potatoes in cages, brussel sprouts, peas and sunflowers. Hopefully everything will be okay. I'm going to wait a couple of weeks and plant more leaf lettuce so it will be ready to harvest before I replant the same space with pumpkins and watermelons.
We also got our bee hives set up....the spot is further up from the goat barn along the fence but with the bees facing BIL's house away from the goat pasture. It will get full sun most of the day and we are going to use ratchet straps to hold them to the table hubby built. We had a small deck that my granny had under the deck of her house at the lake that she put the freezer on. It is long and narrow and perfect for the beehives. Chad took one of the tier poles we salvaged from my great granddaddy's tobacco barns and made legs for it to get it up off the ground and it turned out beautifully. It would potentially hold 3-4 hives but for now we have 2. The bees should be coming the first weekend in May.
I'm pretty sure all my strawberries are dead so it looks like I'll be looking for some new plants while I'm out and about today....Frawg has to go for her last lyme vaccine shot this morning and then we are off to run errands.
and Chad has a softball game tonight but it doesn't start until 8:45 so I'll miss that one since I refuse to drag my children out there past their bedtime. Chad said there were several little ones out there at the last late game and he couldn't believe that the parents would let the kids go on a school night and be out so late just for a church league softball game. 
