Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin
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wait.. you guys turned me into a CHICKEN? *glares*
ok so things are really hopping right along. i think we are done with our crazy hatch...there are a couple eggs still in the bator but they basically have until tomorrow then we'll assume they were not viable. especially b/c i found where my turkey momma has been laying her eggs and we'll put her eggs in next.
yesterday was really profitable. i took some of my old jewelry into the same shop that i went to with my friend.... and they gave me a big pile of $$ for it! i couldnt believe it! i just took my high school ring, a bracelet, some gold chains (not even rapper-style ones!), and a locket. it was like free money, baby. i dont wear any of that stuff anymore... so it was a total score.
so with the loot we are going to get another freezer, and.... a scythe! i'm ordering it today from
http://scythesupply.com/outfits.htm
whoot!
providing i dont cut my leg off this is gonna be great. i cant use the stupid weedwhacker and i generally break anything mechanical.... so this will be the ticket.
and i'm gonna rip up the remaining grass that out by the road. i spent all afternoon mowing it and getting madder about it with every step. so problem solved - that will be converted to more hay/alfalfa and i can get out there and cut it down myself. and since the dog moat is coming soon that crazy old man wont be able to mow down my dang hay anymore. whooot!
i also sent in a soil sample. i'm pretty sure it will come back labeled "this is the worst soil in the county."
so i'll use their recommendations to fix up the soil so my pasture will be A++. and as someone pointed out... if i can get some alfalfa and clover going... i can feed a cow.
especially since.... my friend also gave me a box of calf bottles and a bag of milk replacer!!! its like someone up there knows i'm destined to own a cow...who will of course poop everywhere and improve my soil... so it all comes together in a nice tidy little package. and if i dont get a calf i can feed the replacer to the pigs and chickens and thats free food too!
so tons going on.
today we are headed out to work on another area to fence. because.......
in related goat news........Debbie's baby, Dahlia, nearly bought herself a one way ticket to the grill.
for the last couple weeks Debbie's milk has been VERY low. and she's been lopsided. so i changed her food. then changed it again. and then spent a lot of time rubbing and feeling her udder to see if she was congested, hard udder, hot udder, whatever. nothing. so then..... the day before i was gonna run right out and either sell Debbie to the ethnic market for being useless....or buying the mastisis test...we locked Dahlia up for the night.
the next morning... Debbie was totally full.
so Dahlia has been milk stealing when no one is looking.
i woulda grilled her but she is so well bred we have high hopes of her being a supermilker. so she lives. for now.
and soon she will be living in a new fenced in area next to the pigz with Nibbles. Nibbles loves to graze and provided we can keep them inside the fence, they are going to start working on mowing down a new poison ivy field. then we'll coop Dahlia up for the night so she has zero access to Debbie. either she'll get over her milk stealing or else. and hopefully i wont get covered in poison ivy while milking Nibbles. but she's starting to be at the end of her milking curve so i might just stop early to save myself. OTOH, i should keep drinking her poison ivy flavored milk so i can build up my immunity. humm.... i solve that problem later.
anyway
btw, all of the goats are totally nuts right now. we had to 'get the dog' to convince them to all go into the goat house the other night. it worked. the dog (Dog#1) thought it was great and Kai didnt understand why she couldnt chase the meat bags around. (never, sorry Kai) Dog#1 did have to send Nibbles around the goat yard for a couple laps before she decided that he was just toying with her and was gaining ground fast. i would have put an end it to but i figured she was working off a couple of those extra pounds.... she's starting to get pretty tubby and wants to know why her grain portions are getting so small. my reply was "push back, Fattie, i'm not getting in trouble with the breeder for bringing her a whale again." luckily her buck isnt that particular....but still. wow she is packing on the pounds.
in garden news - i'm totally out there gettin' 'er done. hopefully we'll have a great fall crop of cool season veggies. i'm also planting a lot of oats as a cover crop this year. hopefully it will be mature by the time it gets really cold - i can cut the heads off for the hens, then it will winter kill and create a nice mulch which can be scraped off and provide a lovely friable soil in the spring. thats my plan anyway.
thats the word here.
happy saturday!!!
* OFG slaps on her stupid garden hat, pulls on her gloves and walks away muttering "a chicken? seriously?" *
ok so things are really hopping right along. i think we are done with our crazy hatch...there are a couple eggs still in the bator but they basically have until tomorrow then we'll assume they were not viable. especially b/c i found where my turkey momma has been laying her eggs and we'll put her eggs in next.
yesterday was really profitable. i took some of my old jewelry into the same shop that i went to with my friend.... and they gave me a big pile of $$ for it! i couldnt believe it! i just took my high school ring, a bracelet, some gold chains (not even rapper-style ones!), and a locket. it was like free money, baby. i dont wear any of that stuff anymore... so it was a total score.
so with the loot we are going to get another freezer, and.... a scythe! i'm ordering it today from
http://scythesupply.com/outfits.htm
whoot!
providing i dont cut my leg off this is gonna be great. i cant use the stupid weedwhacker and i generally break anything mechanical.... so this will be the ticket.
and i'm gonna rip up the remaining grass that out by the road. i spent all afternoon mowing it and getting madder about it with every step. so problem solved - that will be converted to more hay/alfalfa and i can get out there and cut it down myself. and since the dog moat is coming soon that crazy old man wont be able to mow down my dang hay anymore. whooot!
i also sent in a soil sample. i'm pretty sure it will come back labeled "this is the worst soil in the county."
so i'll use their recommendations to fix up the soil so my pasture will be A++. and as someone pointed out... if i can get some alfalfa and clover going... i can feed a cow.
especially since.... my friend also gave me a box of calf bottles and a bag of milk replacer!!! its like someone up there knows i'm destined to own a cow...who will of course poop everywhere and improve my soil... so it all comes together in a nice tidy little package. and if i dont get a calf i can feed the replacer to the pigs and chickens and thats free food too!
so tons going on.
today we are headed out to work on another area to fence. because.......
in related goat news........Debbie's baby, Dahlia, nearly bought herself a one way ticket to the grill.
for the last couple weeks Debbie's milk has been VERY low. and she's been lopsided. so i changed her food. then changed it again. and then spent a lot of time rubbing and feeling her udder to see if she was congested, hard udder, hot udder, whatever. nothing. so then..... the day before i was gonna run right out and either sell Debbie to the ethnic market for being useless....or buying the mastisis test...we locked Dahlia up for the night.
the next morning... Debbie was totally full.
so Dahlia has been milk stealing when no one is looking.
i woulda grilled her but she is so well bred we have high hopes of her being a supermilker. so she lives. for now.
and soon she will be living in a new fenced in area next to the pigz with Nibbles. Nibbles loves to graze and provided we can keep them inside the fence, they are going to start working on mowing down a new poison ivy field. then we'll coop Dahlia up for the night so she has zero access to Debbie. either she'll get over her milk stealing or else. and hopefully i wont get covered in poison ivy while milking Nibbles. but she's starting to be at the end of her milking curve so i might just stop early to save myself. OTOH, i should keep drinking her poison ivy flavored milk so i can build up my immunity. humm.... i solve that problem later.
anyway
btw, all of the goats are totally nuts right now. we had to 'get the dog' to convince them to all go into the goat house the other night. it worked. the dog (Dog#1) thought it was great and Kai didnt understand why she couldnt chase the meat bags around. (never, sorry Kai) Dog#1 did have to send Nibbles around the goat yard for a couple laps before she decided that he was just toying with her and was gaining ground fast. i would have put an end it to but i figured she was working off a couple of those extra pounds.... she's starting to get pretty tubby and wants to know why her grain portions are getting so small. my reply was "push back, Fattie, i'm not getting in trouble with the breeder for bringing her a whale again." luckily her buck isnt that particular....but still. wow she is packing on the pounds.
in garden news - i'm totally out there gettin' 'er done. hopefully we'll have a great fall crop of cool season veggies. i'm also planting a lot of oats as a cover crop this year. hopefully it will be mature by the time it gets really cold - i can cut the heads off for the hens, then it will winter kill and create a nice mulch which can be scraped off and provide a lovely friable soil in the spring. thats my plan anyway.
thats the word here.
happy saturday!!!
* OFG slaps on her stupid garden hat, pulls on her gloves and walks away muttering "a chicken? seriously?" *
kcsunshine
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Hey, you were a cute chicken - that counts for something. Be glad, be very glad, she didn't turn you into a goat. Not a pretty sight, I'm sure.
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So how old is Dahlia that she is still stealing milk? That is interesting.
Our little doeling likes to "remind" her mom that she used to nurse. When they get into a head-butting session, Emilee the doeling sometimes "fakes" that she is gonna nurse. She doesn't really, but it makes Ginger MAD. It is actually quite comical to watch. But even little short Emilee is getting too big to get under her mom and nurse even if she is "faking".....how does Dahlia reach under there?
How cool you got cash for stuff you don't wear! I've always preferred silver jewelry over gold, guess that was DUMB.
Our little doeling likes to "remind" her mom that she used to nurse. When they get into a head-butting session, Emilee the doeling sometimes "fakes" that she is gonna nurse. She doesn't really, but it makes Ginger MAD. It is actually quite comical to watch. But even little short Emilee is getting too big to get under her mom and nurse even if she is "faking".....how does Dahlia reach under there?
How cool you got cash for stuff you don't wear! I've always preferred silver jewelry over gold, guess that was DUMB.
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hey SD!
dang.... Dahila's almost 7 months old. we thought she'd stopped sippin' off deb a while ago. but if i think about it last year's baby sipped off Debbie too the whole time. grrr.
Deb loves to have the babies nurse off her and is kinda mad that we've separated them. earlier in the summer we'd put Debbie in a different place (the open side of the turkeyhouse) but the runner ducks are in there now. we really did think that Dahlia stopped... but dang.
and you might want to try to sell some of that silver... there was a guy in front of me that had a stack of silver dollars that they were pricing. you never know. *shrugs*
but we were glad for the extra loot.
yesterday we worked HARD. we got a path cleared thru the bramble so we could run the fenceline. TBM started on one side and i was on the other and we bushwhacked and chainsawed until the mowers met. whooot!
and it looks great now too. we had an epic burnpile that lasted well into the night. the dogs love the new open space and i'm glad i'm not going to have to walk thru the poison ivy to get down to the pigs. unfortunately the hens like the open space too do i'm not sure how we are going to seed that area with the clucks pecking all around. yikes - even MORE fencing. ugh.
its raining on and off this morning so i'm not sure if we'll get finished up or not.
we figured that if this new area doesnt work out for Nibs and Dahlia we'll just turn the pigs out into that area. they've grazed every single leaf on green in their current lot...and are starting to root up everything. yay!!! and dang those pigs are getting big.
so here's a laugh. we think all of the eggs in the bator have hatched and we thought that was it. until last nite. Eliza, the hen who laid all these eggs, has been hiding out in the hen house. and wouldnt you know i heard peeping and.... there she was... with a baby. ha! not sure how i'm going to solve this problem. if she started a nest and then sat on it... while laying every day.... that means another "rolling hatch" but i dont think she'll sit if she has little ones.
meanwhile, Miss Duck, has been in jail this whole time. she was "sharing" the nest with Eliza and i think was the one who was pulling the babies out of the nest. sheesh. crazy poultry.
ok its stopped raining.. we are running outside.
happy sunday everyone!
dang.... Dahila's almost 7 months old. we thought she'd stopped sippin' off deb a while ago. but if i think about it last year's baby sipped off Debbie too the whole time. grrr.
Deb loves to have the babies nurse off her and is kinda mad that we've separated them. earlier in the summer we'd put Debbie in a different place (the open side of the turkeyhouse) but the runner ducks are in there now. we really did think that Dahlia stopped... but dang.
and you might want to try to sell some of that silver... there was a guy in front of me that had a stack of silver dollars that they were pricing. you never know. *shrugs*
but we were glad for the extra loot.
yesterday we worked HARD. we got a path cleared thru the bramble so we could run the fenceline. TBM started on one side and i was on the other and we bushwhacked and chainsawed until the mowers met. whooot!
and it looks great now too. we had an epic burnpile that lasted well into the night. the dogs love the new open space and i'm glad i'm not going to have to walk thru the poison ivy to get down to the pigs. unfortunately the hens like the open space too do i'm not sure how we are going to seed that area with the clucks pecking all around. yikes - even MORE fencing. ugh.
its raining on and off this morning so i'm not sure if we'll get finished up or not.
we figured that if this new area doesnt work out for Nibs and Dahlia we'll just turn the pigs out into that area. they've grazed every single leaf on green in their current lot...and are starting to root up everything. yay!!! and dang those pigs are getting big.
so here's a laugh. we think all of the eggs in the bator have hatched and we thought that was it. until last nite. Eliza, the hen who laid all these eggs, has been hiding out in the hen house. and wouldnt you know i heard peeping and.... there she was... with a baby. ha! not sure how i'm going to solve this problem. if she started a nest and then sat on it... while laying every day.... that means another "rolling hatch" but i dont think she'll sit if she has little ones.
meanwhile, Miss Duck, has been in jail this whole time. she was "sharing" the nest with Eliza and i think was the one who was pulling the babies out of the nest. sheesh. crazy poultry.
ok its stopped raining.. we are running outside.
happy sunday everyone!
freemotion
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Gather up her eggs and put them in the incubator! More peeps for the next three weeks!
Peach stole milk from Ginger for 7 months at least in spite of all my efforts. It was only when they were both pregnant that I was confident that it stopped. On occasion I would still see Peach make a move towards Ginger's udder when she was stressed....like for a few days after Peach's rough delivery of triplets....but it was just a gesture and Ginger moved away. I haven't seen her do this in a while now, thank goodness.
It was rather ridiculous, seeing a large goat with a nice set of horns nursing off of Ginger. She had to practically turn herself into a pretzel to get to the udder without lying on the ground upside down! Ginger would cock her knee and hawk up a cud and let her have at it, silly beast. Even though Peach was shredding her teats with those sharp teeth.
Peach stole milk from Ginger for 7 months at least in spite of all my efforts. It was only when they were both pregnant that I was confident that it stopped. On occasion I would still see Peach make a move towards Ginger's udder when she was stressed....like for a few days after Peach's rough delivery of triplets....but it was just a gesture and Ginger moved away. I haven't seen her do this in a while now, thank goodness.
It was rather ridiculous, seeing a large goat with a nice set of horns nursing off of Ginger. She had to practically turn herself into a pretzel to get to the udder without lying on the ground upside down! Ginger would cock her knee and hawk up a cud and let her have at it, silly beast. Even though Peach was shredding her teats with those sharp teeth.
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That would have been a funny picture, Free.
Just yesterday I saw our doeling try to grab the teat of her AUNT......with her, she doesn't seem to really nurse, she is playing "gotcha" and proving she can GET to the udder. It makes both does MAD and makes us all laugh. I'm glad she isn't really nursing though, but our doeling is mostly nigy and the does are mini-nubians, so she fits under them quite nicely.
Heck, you are gonna have a lot of chickens, OFG!
Just yesterday I saw our doeling try to grab the teat of her AUNT......with her, she doesn't seem to really nurse, she is playing "gotcha" and proving she can GET to the udder. It makes both does MAD and makes us all laugh. I'm glad she isn't really nursing though, but our doeling is mostly nigy and the does are mini-nubians, so she fits under them quite nicely.
Heck, you are gonna have a lot of chickens, OFG!
Farmfresh
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We used to have a little contraption that the pony foal wore on her nose, it was a metal nose piece with spikes. A few days of that on the foal and the mare was WELL convinced not to let them nurse. Do they make something like that for goats?
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*Ginger (the goat) perks up her ears and comes over to the computer......Farmfresh said:
WHERE can I buy one? (Ginger speaking, I did not type that....).......*
LovinLife
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Good job on clearing that area OFG. I have a few spots I wanna do too! We've got this super duper weedeater that has a blade on it which cuts thru small trees and such. It's a handy thing to have! Think I'll go do some weed-wackin' right now!
