Harvest Monday

Eggplant, yellow zucchini and a lone tomato

Welcome to Harvest Monday, a lovely blog hop hosted by Dave over at Happy Acres Thanks Dave! This week's harvest is mighty thin in most areas.

Loads of Cucuzzi

There were some eggplants, a yellow zucchini and a lone tomato.The bulk of this weeks vegetables were the cucuzzi gourds. This is an edible gourd from Italy that I'm growing for the first time. So far I find it tastier than zucchini.

Esmarelda's milk production has exploded

I am not totally sure why Esmarelda's milk production has increased, perhaps slightly cooler weather combined with her kids being 5 months old and not nursing as much. 

Monday she was just half a pint short of a gallon

Tuesday night a gallon plus just over a pint

So I made the decision to start milking twice a day, to help keep her more comfortable and ward off possibilities of mastitis. She leaks slightly if she's too full and that increases the risk of mastitis.

fresh eggs

Egg production is still down, mostly the newest layers are giving me 5 a day. However I'm wondering if finding a diamondback in the big hen house has anything to do with no eggs from those girls for a couple weeks now.

 Nida's Peach

The peaches I harvested last week were getting soft ripe and delicious. Some of the bird pecked ones were beginning to rot so they went to the chickens. Most of the remainder went to my farmers market customers.

This weeks' totals (not including rots and gardener snacks)

Eggplant 1# 3 oz

Zucchini 1#

Cucuzzi 12# 4 oz

Peaches 5# 10 oz

Eggs 49

Milk

Bambi 42.5 pints or 5.75 gallons

Esmarelda 49 pints or 6 gallons + 1 pint

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 7: Twelve Days of 2023

 

This is my recap of July 2023. I had a super tomato garden compared to the last few  years

We had many days at 105 degrees and hotter, with no rain in sight.

What did Digger Dog find now?

Some clouds and pretty sunsets but all the rain passed me  by.

I'm surrounded by packs of coyotes.

The goat bedding heats up like crazy in the compost pile.

Bambi likes people; other goats not so much.

A little salamander of some sort that was in my kitchen sink looking for a damp cool spot.

Some kind of giant fly

Sacred Datura pops up here and there around the place

Another baby king snake.

Unlike the dwarf breeds of goat my Nubians are seasonal breeders with the does coming into heat sometime around July/ August until mid Janurary at the latest. Well this July was a pretty crazy start to the breeding season.