Sooooo many things have happened around here this year, some of which I'd forgotten about until I started going through my pictures. I decided to recap by doing a post a day, one for each month. So this is some of the highlights (and lows!) of January 2023. Above, some first eggs from new Black Copper Marans pullets.
I had several beds of greens thriving under row cover
Early in the month there was a lot of rain and some snow with high winds, causing a lot of damage to tarps and garden covers. At Christmas I had 3 doelings born to two mammas and they were doing well.
And then Esmarelda had her twin boys the morning it was 25 degrees outside.
I started lots of seeds. Over 500 seedlings
Lots of rain and snow
My Posie goat was so sick and I really didn't know what I didn't know. I lost her and it broke my heart. Now I know that she was extremly deficient in copper and carrying triplets she went down with pregnancy toxemia. I did everything I could think of for the toxemia but at that point I didn't know anything about copper deficiency.
Esmarelda rejected her twins so they became bottle babies.
But she has been an awesome milker and once I got her milking she settled down just fine and in all this time has rarely danced around or kicked the bucket while milking.
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