So today we took time to work on the farm to do list. The only problem is that it seems to grow longer with every chore you cross off. Like today we did all of the following:
Mowed the yard
Moved the wood that covered the duck pond sides
Cleaned out all three trailers
cleaned out the community coop
put fresh dirt in the community coop
Trimmed all animal's hooves
Rotated the girls to the pasture
Penned up the "Men"
Turned Dolly out to the pasture
Made an appointment for Charlie to be cut Monday
cleaned up the trash from the storm that blew all over
we banded the last little boy lamb
Changed all the linens in the house and wash them
Cleaned all the dog kennels
Bathed all the dogs (Drover's first bath in his life so we all got more wet then he did)
We still have to do the following
Clean up the Man pen, shed and spray that pen
Clean out the Goat shed
Put in a 2X4 in the calf shed and clean that pen up and spray it
Hang 3 gates (one to the orchard and two in the pasture)
clean up the fencing pile
finish push mowing the yard (we use the push mower to trim things up)
Blade down what is left of the dirt pile that was for the community coop
Clean up the back yard and get the stuff off the picnic table put away
Clean up the whole house
get things ready for Kelleyville
See how one thing leads to another? The community coop is done but now we have to finish the dirt pile... We wouldn't have to blade the dirt pile if we hadn't finished up with the community coop... Mom says that is just the way it goes but Hey, I am a kids so I can say this ... That doesn't make it fair. LOL
Well, that is somethings that we figured out today. First and most important thing is that Pistol our little buck that I bought with the Ewe with the hurt leg IS NOT A BUCK! We were banding today and well, there was nothing to band so at first we thought he had already been done but that isn't the case. I know, I know ... How could we not know? Well, it is easy in this case. First we were told she was a buck when we got her and she hasn't been handled like our others have so she doesn't come right up to you like our other sheep do. Therefore today we made it a point to get our hands on her and band her. That is when we discovered he is a she. No I am not changing her name. Her name is just going to be Pistol and we say it is short for Pistolette.
The other important thing we checked out today is everyone's bags. We checked every girl and we have decided that the bags we have seen on the sheep are from lambs of the past. The cotswold that had the bag is actually shrinking so we think they might have just pulled a lamb off her before the sold her. The Southdown all have lambed in the past so their bags are left over as well. Sometimes I think we thought they were getting bigger but they weren't . It was just wishful thinking on our part. As for the Angoras, yes we had them ultra sounded and how can that be wrong? Well, Ultra sound is actually just a picture of reflected light and if the goats were a bit over weight that could look as if they were bred. In the spring everything gains weight because of the lush greens that become available at that time of the year. We knew it was a gamble when we took on such young bucks but next year we will have babies ... You wait and see. And besides this fall we will have Cria on the ground. Maybe this is God's way of telling us we should be breeding Alpacas and nothing else??
Mowed the yard
Moved the wood that covered the duck pond sides
Cleaned out all three trailers
cleaned out the community coop
put fresh dirt in the community coop
Trimmed all animal's hooves
Rotated the girls to the pasture
Penned up the "Men"
Turned Dolly out to the pasture
Made an appointment for Charlie to be cut Monday
cleaned up the trash from the storm that blew all over
we banded the last little boy lamb
Changed all the linens in the house and wash them
Cleaned all the dog kennels
Bathed all the dogs (Drover's first bath in his life so we all got more wet then he did)
We still have to do the following
Clean up the Man pen, shed and spray that pen
Clean out the Goat shed
Put in a 2X4 in the calf shed and clean that pen up and spray it
Hang 3 gates (one to the orchard and two in the pasture)
clean up the fencing pile
finish push mowing the yard (we use the push mower to trim things up)
Blade down what is left of the dirt pile that was for the community coop
Clean up the back yard and get the stuff off the picnic table put away
Clean up the whole house
get things ready for Kelleyville
See how one thing leads to another? The community coop is done but now we have to finish the dirt pile... We wouldn't have to blade the dirt pile if we hadn't finished up with the community coop... Mom says that is just the way it goes but Hey, I am a kids so I can say this ... That doesn't make it fair. LOL
Well, that is somethings that we figured out today. First and most important thing is that Pistol our little buck that I bought with the Ewe with the hurt leg IS NOT A BUCK! We were banding today and well, there was nothing to band so at first we thought he had already been done but that isn't the case. I know, I know ... How could we not know? Well, it is easy in this case. First we were told she was a buck when we got her and she hasn't been handled like our others have so she doesn't come right up to you like our other sheep do. Therefore today we made it a point to get our hands on her and band her. That is when we discovered he is a she. No I am not changing her name. Her name is just going to be Pistol and we say it is short for Pistolette.
The other important thing we checked out today is everyone's bags. We checked every girl and we have decided that the bags we have seen on the sheep are from lambs of the past. The cotswold that had the bag is actually shrinking so we think they might have just pulled a lamb off her before the sold her. The Southdown all have lambed in the past so their bags are left over as well. Sometimes I think we thought they were getting bigger but they weren't . It was just wishful thinking on our part. As for the Angoras, yes we had them ultra sounded and how can that be wrong? Well, Ultra sound is actually just a picture of reflected light and if the goats were a bit over weight that could look as if they were bred. In the spring everything gains weight because of the lush greens that become available at that time of the year. We knew it was a gamble when we took on such young bucks but next year we will have babies ... You wait and see. And besides this fall we will have Cria on the ground. Maybe this is God's way of telling us we should be breeding Alpacas and nothing else??
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