Just as I was starting chores this morning I hear a goat kid hollaring in distress. And find Midnight and Chocolate have hopped the fence again. One of Midnight’s boys was hollaring because he couldn’t find mom.
Got them back in and worked on changing out the pintles for the gate so it won’t fall off every time I open it.
Then things began to get complicated. It looked like Chocolate was coming into heat. She was even trying to ride the little bucklings. So I slipped her into Bashful’s pen and yep she’s in heat. So likely December babies to come. But in this pic you can see what happened later. Gazelle and Chocolate began fighting through the fence. They bent up a brand new cattle panel. Mostly dented from Gazelle’s side.
So I found a metal beam from an old shed we tore down and wired it right across where they were butting heads. That seemed to put a stop to it.
Stopped to unload the car and clean up the driveway to get ready for hay delivery. I scored this cool packing crate yesterday. With some legs and some beefing up will make a great hay feeder It’s about 6.5’ long and about 2’ wide.
But it’s longer than this little roof so started to add on. I got the T post set and another pallet put in place and was scrounging around for some long enough 2x4s to make the roof wider when Gazelle started pounding the fence so had to stop and fix that like I explained before.
Puppies are like toddlers. When it gets too quiet you better go check. In this case Digger was just napping in his mud hole.
I did work over here where they are hopping the fence.
I found a long board to add in. I meant to cut some weed trees to put in the gaps but by then it was getting really hot. It was 81°F at 5:00 am and by 10 it was miserable.
I did manage to change out the biggest pad on my cooler. That by the way is a blue pad. It was so clogged up with lime no air was getting through. Hopefully I’ll get the other 2 sides done tomorrow. But changing out just one side made a big difference in air flow in the house.
Went to feed the bottle baby at noon and Digger decided he needed to cool off in the goats water. Of course I had to clean and refill buckets after that.
And at milking time the storm rolled in. I got Posie milked ok and then Mocha and I got soaked I didn’t even strip her out like I usually do. But that’s ok since she’s still nursing Latte.
Then I put stuff in the shed and ran to the house sopping wet. Dried off and changed my shirt. Waited for the storm to pass and finished up milking. Fed Digger and the bottle baby. Trying to decide what to have for dinner. Something simple. I’m too tired to think. Good night.
Then things began to get complicated. It looked like Chocolate was coming into heat. She was even trying to ride the little bucklings. So I slipped her into Bashful’s pen and yep she’s in heat. So likely December babies to come. But in this pic you can see what happened later. Gazelle and Chocolate began fighting through the fence. They bent up a brand new cattle panel. Mostly dented from Gazelle’s side.
So I found a metal beam from an old shed we tore down and wired it right across where they were butting heads. That seemed to put a stop to it.
Stopped to unload the car and clean up the driveway to get ready for hay delivery. I scored this cool packing crate yesterday. With some legs and some beefing up will make a great hay feeder It’s about 6.5’ long and about 2’ wide.
But it’s longer than this little roof so started to add on. I got the T post set and another pallet put in place and was scrounging around for some long enough 2x4s to make the roof wider when Gazelle started pounding the fence so had to stop and fix that like I explained before.
Puppies are like toddlers. When it gets too quiet you better go check. In this case Digger was just napping in his mud hole.
I did work over here where they are hopping the fence.
I found a long board to add in. I meant to cut some weed trees to put in the gaps but by then it was getting really hot. It was 81°F at 5:00 am and by 10 it was miserable.
I did manage to change out the biggest pad on my cooler. That by the way is a blue pad. It was so clogged up with lime no air was getting through. Hopefully I’ll get the other 2 sides done tomorrow. But changing out just one side made a big difference in air flow in the house.
Went to feed the bottle baby at noon and Digger decided he needed to cool off in the goats water. Of course I had to clean and refill buckets after that.
And at milking time the storm rolled in. I got Posie milked ok and then Mocha and I got soaked I didn’t even strip her out like I usually do. But that’s ok since she’s still nursing Latte.
Then I put stuff in the shed and ran to the house sopping wet. Dried off and changed my shirt. Waited for the storm to pass and finished up milking. Fed Digger and the bottle baby. Trying to decide what to have for dinner. Something simple. I’m too tired to think. Good night.
