4-H calves

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:55:34 +0000

It’s time to get ready for the County Fair. The kids are busy getting their beef projects trained to lead. It was a hot day, so they got a nice cool bath with the hose.

Fencing in the Romney’s

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:50:33 +0000

Pounding in wood posts

The sheep are getting more new fence. We built them a new

Pen earlier this spring, and now we are at it again. It will be nice to get them out into their new pasture once it is complete!

2010 lambs

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:07:40 +0000

Our little Romney lambs are 2 1/2 months old. They are enjoying their new green pasture and their last month with with their mom’s. It will soon be weaning time.

"Katy"

"Curly"

"Loretta"

Bottle Calf

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:34:01 +0000

: Lane and Tucker and their new bottle calf

: Lane’s turn to feed her

One of our cows had a calf yesterday and she doesn’t have milk for it, so the boys are going to feed her for the summer. They are pretty excited, so far. They haven’t thought of a name for her yet, and would really like for me to make a felted sculpture of her for them. She is pretty cute and would be fun to make, hopefully I can find the time to do that for them soon.

Bottle Kid

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:39:51 +0000

Lane feeding Fawn some supplemental milk from a bottle

Three babies turned out to be a little more than “Mildred” could handle. The littlest kid “Fawn” was getting pushed out of the way by the two bigger kids. She has been getting some supplemental milk from a bottle for a few days now and seems to be doing much better. Tucker has claimed Fawn as his own and is quite happy that she will be a tame “bottle kid” now. Bottle kids and lambs are much easier to catch and hold or play with.

Abby, Fawn, Lane and Callie

Triplets at Bear Creek

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:39:57 +0000

Yesterday afternoon our LaMancha milk goat (Mildred) surprised us with three babies. It was a terrible windy and rainy day, so the kids and I grabbed the babies and Mildred and brought them into the barn where it was a bit warmer. We found that they are all girls, the largest being all white. Tucker fell in love with the tiniest baby right away.

When I checked in on them this morning they were all well and happy. They even attempted to play and jump around already, which is fun to watch!

The triplets are LaMancha/Nubian cross.

The LaMancha is a breed of milking goat noted for its apparent lack of, or much reduced, external ears. The LaMancha breed is medium in size, and is also noted for a generally calm, quiet, and gentle temperament.

We have had Mildred for 2 years and use her milk for making cheese and drinking.

Tucker said he would like to have an entire herd of goats some day. We will have to see about that! We are running out of room for any more animals especially goats. We seem to have a lot of trouble keeping them in their pens.

Sample Post

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:25:32 +0000

this is a sample post