Day 11: Twelve Days of 2023

I'm recapping 2023 one month at a time. This is November. Digger Dog on his way to the vet for his annual check up and rabies booster. He did pretty good with the vet but he howls and crys the entire time we are in the car, going and coming.

Digger tunneled under the fence into the girls pen and was in there chasing the girls around. 

The coyotes here are bold. They were coming in under the fence and I had to go up on the hill and plug the hole.

Since Digger destroyed his house I had to drop other projects and build him a new one.

The tabby cat is Tink. The tiger striped is a stray that comes around to eat.

Storm is pretty much healed up from her foot injury and gets a hoof trim.

Day 6: Twelve Days of 2023

And this is my June 2023 recap. I was given boxes of squash and Digger Dog would steal and eat them

The Hollyhocks were amazing this year

The crazy amazing tomato garden

A little gopher snake. I've only seen a couple this year. I have seen a lot of the king snakes.

First tomato




 I had bought Bentley awhile back but didn't have pen space so he'd been living at my friends house. Since Gazelle and Chocolate and their kids had left the farm I had space to go pick him up and bring him home



He started out sharing a pen with three young boys from front to back, Jupiter, Apollo and Tiny Tim who isn't so tiny any more!

The spring pullets are growing up

And some older girls are laying

A nice basket of tomatoes

Around this time I started making sugar or face scrub



A canine of some sort (I do suspect a coyote but it could have been a stray dog) Dug under the back of my big chicken house and killed several young layers. I moved the survivors to a safer spot and temporarily patched the hole.

Day 5: Twelve Days of 2023

Christmas Evie is always into mischief!

Nothing in the world is as cute as a baby goat!

I bought a cheap greenhouse off Amazon. Over the summer I used it with shadecloth over tomatoes. I'm actually a bit paranoid to put the plastic cover on, for fear a heavy wet snow will collapse the lightweight frame.

I am soooo happy that the king snakes have found my place! I haven't seen a single rattler all year!

Bambi's hair is looking weird and she seems very itchy. This was the point when I started learning about copper deficiency in goats. 

The little chicks are growing up



I planted out the greenhouse space with tomatoes in pots and buckets and had the most amazing crop ever.

                                

Bambi didn't always want to let her kids nurse, especially the two smaller ones, Pinto Bean and Tiny Tim so they were getting bottles. My Farmer Boy came to visit and got to feed them for the first time.

Digger Dog was shedding out his winter undercoat 

Three bucklings; Esmarelda's boy Jupiter and Bambi's boys Tiny Tim and Apollo. Tiny Tim weighed less than 4 pounds when he was born but in the end he was as big as Apollo who weighed 10!

Just a Little Catching Up Part 1

 

Just trying to catch up a bit here since I haven't posted since Oct 2022. Things just got so crazy and I was trying to work on videos so this space was neglected. Trying to do better! This was how big Digger Dog was at about 6 months. He's even bigger today of course!

This video is from November; things have changed a lot since then!

In November I sold the 4 wether kids which helped the feed bill a bit.

In December Chocolate gave birth to a single doeling, Christmas Evie

And then Gazelle had twins

And a look back at 2022. I'm hoping to post a some more catch up posts the next few days and then keep up with at least a weekly roundup.