First snow of the season!

Rita- Our Nubian

New Goats – Day 2

1.  The day starts with me convincing myself to get out of bed.  I am slightly dreading what the day might bring.  As I am putting my clothes on, I get a panic feeling – call it mommy intuition.  I pick up my pace.  I learn Katy is already outside. 2.  Katy is outside with a loose Llama and a loose goat.  Had I shown up a minute earlier, it would have been two loose goats. 3.   We try to herd the Llama first.  Our attempts are less than successful so I had for the house to get Drew.…

New Goats- Day 1

We got our first two goats yesterday.  I am going to be posting about our goats’ first days in their new home. 1. Day begins with Brian and Katy leaving at 6:00 a.m. to drive two hours to pick up goat #1 (what a great hubby!) 2. Brian arrives home.  Goat was good on drive but the tarp and blanket didn’t catch all the goat pee. 3.  Brian heads for the shower while Nick, Drew and I frantically scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse Brian’s car. 4.  Brian is pretty relaxed about his car and reminds me that we used…

Caught In The Act!

Compost Bins

Today Nick began working on compost bins.  We are making them out of some old pallets and he is leveling a place in a hill to set them.

Scary Llama Noise

We have the Llama as a guard animal to scare off predators.  It didn’t take us long to hear her scary noise.  She usually does it at night so we never know exactly what she sees or hears.  The children jokingly call it her Mrs. Rochester laugh.  This comes from watching the BBC version of “Jane Eyre.”  I didn’t want to go to the trouble of trying to record her making the noise so here is one on You Tube that sounds a lot like her.

The Llama

The Donkey

Chicks!

Here are some pictures of our new chicks on the day they arrived.  We ordered 11.  8 are intended to be laying hens and Katy ordered 3 Silkies as pets.  Unfortunately one of the Silkies didn’t look so good when it showed up and we lost that one so now we have 10 chicks.