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!

Day 4; Twelve Days of 2023

A recap of April 2023; All loaded up for the plant sale at the Globe-Miami Farmers Market, I had over 500 plants. I don't think I could fit any more in the van.

I started making goat milk lotion

Hatched more chicks

Had crazy cold weather with thick ice every where.



Longer days mean egg production is up

Digger Dog turned 1 year old.

The spinach crop was totally amazing

Storm had triplets, 2 girls and a boy




                                                
Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere are chick chicks!

Things were going great and Then I got waylaid by a scorpion sting

Storm seemed to have a touch of milk fever (not enough calcium intake so not enough in the blood stream)

Storm is a funny girl

With all the craziness that went on when Bambi had her kids, like my plumbing issues, friends had taken Bambi and her kids to foster them for awhile so I could get things taken care of. Now Bambi and her babies are home.