Here Goes

Well I'm able to spend more time online now that I've stepped down as a Manager and am part-time only. Now that I'm home during the day I've taken charge of feeding all the animals and seeing to their daily needs. Our goat herd is growing and the little pygmy ones are so cute to watch! Carmel is the dainty little doe and she's really warming up to me, crawling all over me just like Spot. We have nubians, pygmys, and the meat goats so far. I believe the meat goat does are pregnant and will kid sometime in late fall so it's a good thing we decided to turn the barn into Goat Central rather than save it for cattle or horses. That way, the ladies will have their own stalls to birth in. We will have some excitement in the next few weeks when we take the cow down for her A.I. session. I wonder if she'll care that we didn't splurge on the $150/semen straw bull but instead went with the stock $16.00 stuff.

We ordered 25 more chickens from McMurray Hatchery last week and they're being shipped today - should arrive by the end of the week. My friend Phoebe at www.goturgoat.com ordered the same mix as we did (brown layers) and we're both excited to get them. Phoebe is the lady we purchased our pygmy's from and she's just the most helpful person ever! Anyway, the chicken coop will need to be expanded soon to accomodate nearly 40 hens - although I think we have a rooster or two in the mist now - and I'll need to make several more laying nests. So by Christmas we should be inundated with eggs, soaps, kids (of the goat persuasion), horses boarded in the pasture, and I'm sure another round of kittens. Isn't it some kind of law that you must have kittens on farms? Obviously it is and we're obeying it tenfold.

Tonight's my first night back at work after vacationing last week so I must go get the house and dinner in order and get ready. Looking forward to getting our site up in the next few weeks. We're using Jen at www.fourlittleducks.com and she seems fabulous! Thanks Rhonda. :)