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.

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!