NoobieChickenLady's Journal - SS Score and Mah Kitteh is HOME!! Yay!

[urban dreamer]

I love the new avatar!

 

[Denim Deb]

I'm jealous! Wish I could find someone selling hay for $2.00 a bale! I'd buy at least 100 bales.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Woohoo!
Deb, I wish I could STORE 100 bales. The folks I bought it from use old tractor trailers (big rig trailers) to store theirs in, which I thought was neato.

Well, we got snow, but it didn't last. Thankfully, we didn't get an ice storm, but I did NOT go into work the day after the snow. Too many frozen bridges, no sand trucks or salt and I have yet to meet many southerners (including myself) who know how to drive on icy roads. Better to just stay out of the way

Dixie spent the weekend with Billy, my friend's buck. He is gorgeous and she found him quite attractive. He's got a black dorsal stripe (she does too, so yay!) and his strip splits off at his shoulders & runs down the front of each front leg. Big gray goatee & topknot, with brown-flecked-with-gray sides, white ears & underbelly & black legs.

When we topped the hill on their driveway, she started calling & flagging her tail for all she was worth. Opened the gate & away she went. I wasn't 100% sure where the buck pen was, but she took me straight to it. They rubbed noses through the fence and flopped lips at each other. I'd never seen goats flirting. It was so sweet.

He got her several times before I left, but we let her stay all weekend, just to be sure. We probably won't take Umbra, after seeing the big boy, I'm pretty sure he'd squash her! She really is still small. If she hits another growth spurt & heat, we'll see. Otherwise, I'll be waiting til October-ish for her.

Still have the pig, starting to get more eggs, piling stuff up in the garden, planning where to plant & what to start, waiting for spring and counting the days til June pip-popping

 

[framing fowl]

Hey NCL! Good to hear from you again. How big is that pig nowadays? Do you have a bacon countdown going on? I was giggling reading about your goat leading you right to the buck's pen. She sounds like a teenage girl at the mall .

 

[abifae]

LOL! I'm envious of all you with yards! Not that I can get much to not die yet (that is my extent of green thumb. Woot! Something didn't die!!!)

Your goat really DOES sound like a teen at the mall.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Indeed she did! "Come ONNN!!" hehehe
She's an old pro by now though, this is her 5th breeding. She for sure knew what she wanted and she was NOT going to stop til she got it

The funniest part to me was him putting on more cologne for her, then galloping after her. After she got it a few times, she was more interested in the foliage and the other female (they got along just fine, thankfully) than in him. He, on the other hand, was all about some Dixie He's a little more than a year and a half old, so he knows his business, but he's still... exuberant?

The pig, I'm guessing he's around 40lbs now. He doesn't do as good of a job tilling his area as I thought and I've not been able to find a new home for him soooooo
Can I get a BACON from the congregation, please?

 

[abifae]

BACON!!!!!!



Well he gets it so RARELY is why LOL. He knows to get it while the getting's good.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

"Oh, its a new chick! And this one's NOT running from me!!" hehehe, yeah... Oodles of fun!

Bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon BACON!!
He'll be a nice practice run for whenever I can get a locally raised or wild one. Never butchered a piggie before and I hear they're not as simple as deer. Won't be out as much if I mess something up

 

[glenolam]

That's funny about your goat, too, noobie - I took my doe Eloise who's 6 to my nieghbor's buck on Friday and she did the same thing. Led me exactly to where he was, which was in the back of the farm in a stall that you couldn't see or hear from the drive way!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Guess that buck stink comes in handy for them
Did I mention that Dixie STINKS now!?