Animals
- Dear Nabisco... Please Send Ritz
Tuesday's snow has stuck with us... thanks to a blast of arctic air with frigid whistling winds. Our construction workers were unable to finish the pavilion,due to a layer of snow/ice on the roof(which, I am sure you will be relieved to know, has...
- Playtime With Maddie
There seems to be no shortage of cute around the farm this week. Yesterday was nursery cleaning day. Becky and I mucked out the goat house and replaced the bedding with fresh clean hay. While we cleaned, the new kids played in the snow...
- Babies On Board!!
Happy news for Bee Haven Acres: Missy and Myrtle are pregnant! You might remember a post from about two months ago, when we led our bucks, kicking and screaming, down to the yard closer to the gals. Here is Smoochie in an act of protest. We put Chip...
- Happy News
Missy is pregnant with twins!! This is especially good news for the farm. About a month ago we did pregnancy checks on the three female goats that were bred this Fall. Myrtle and Jill both had babies on board, but we could find no evidence of fetuses...
- Goat Pregnancies.....exciting News!!!
If you all will remember, I had told you the story of our little fainting goat buck's first attempt at procreation.....in a nutshell, he attempted to mount and dropped over in a faint. Well, the good news is......HE DID IT!!! Three of our females,...
Animals
Room Service
Me: "Hey Missy, it's time for dinner."
Missy: "It's about time... you're late!"
Me: "We already discussed this...when we turned the clocks back."
Missy: "What's for dinner, anyway?"
Me: "Goat feed... the good stuff. And stop making faces at me."
Missy: "Goat feed, again? Yuck!"
Me: "Well, what would you like for dinner, Missy?"
Missy: "Ritz."
Me: "Ok, Missy.... just eat your pellets first."
It could have been worse...
coming from a pregnant goat.
Around the middle of January, she'll start begging for pickles and ice cream!
- Dear Nabisco... Please Send Ritz
Tuesday's snow has stuck with us... thanks to a blast of arctic air with frigid whistling winds. Our construction workers were unable to finish the pavilion,due to a layer of snow/ice on the roof(which, I am sure you will be relieved to know, has...
- Playtime With Maddie
There seems to be no shortage of cute around the farm this week. Yesterday was nursery cleaning day. Becky and I mucked out the goat house and replaced the bedding with fresh clean hay. While we cleaned, the new kids played in the snow...
- Babies On Board!!
Happy news for Bee Haven Acres: Missy and Myrtle are pregnant! You might remember a post from about two months ago, when we led our bucks, kicking and screaming, down to the yard closer to the gals. Here is Smoochie in an act of protest. We put Chip...
- Happy News
Missy is pregnant with twins!! This is especially good news for the farm. About a month ago we did pregnancy checks on the three female goats that were bred this Fall. Myrtle and Jill both had babies on board, but we could find no evidence of fetuses...
- Goat Pregnancies.....exciting News!!!
If you all will remember, I had told you the story of our little fainting goat buck's first attempt at procreation.....in a nutshell, he attempted to mount and dropped over in a faint. Well, the good news is......HE DID IT!!! Three of our females,...