A Sunny Saturday

1 Feb

Saturday was what I would consider the perfect day that I wish we could copy and paste for the next month.  It was mid-20s, little wind, and a lot of sunshine!

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a blue jay in front of a very blue sky

Everyone was enjoying the sunshine.

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Shelby, Pluto, Maybeline (Melba behind), Ava and Popcorn

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Moonshine, Pretzel, Ava, Maybeline and Skittles

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Antigone enjoying the sunshine

I even opened the Morton building door and let Wanda outside for a while.

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Popcorn outside the pen; Wanda wishing she was with the rest of the herd.

The geese were begging for a bath, but it wasn’t quite warm enough for that.

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Buffy and Miss Goose

I keep thinking I need to find something new to write about, but there’s not a lot going on besides chores this time of year.  Hopefully, you don’t get tired of pictures of the animals just happily munching and basking.

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More Normal

31 Jan

Well, after the last two weeks of horribly cold weather, we are back to more normal temperatures.  I am not complaining about because we need the cold to help reduce illness.  But I’m not going to deny that more normal is better.

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When I get home, they are waiting for me and demanding feed.

Look at the big chunk of ice I had to dig out of the water tub because my heater was too small to keep up with the horrible cold we had.

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the ice is still frozen solid

It’s much better not to have to deal with that.

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Daisy

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Maybeline just got her drink

It makes chores much easier to do in the evening when it’s not so stupid cold.

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Pretzel and Popcorn

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Buffy

I have the buck room door open for Joy and Antigone.  Heck. I might even move them back to the main herd.  If Antigone needs it, I can always put her back in overnight if she can’t get herself into the barn.  She is such a cute little wimp.

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Antigone

I’ve been leaving the heat lamp off during the day in the Morton building.  I might even start opening that door during the day to get them some fresh air and let the humidity out.  I’m actually cautiously optimistic that we’ve maybe hopefully made it past the worst of the winter.

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More Updates

30 Jan

After the horrible experience last year where I had girls abort due to a bacterial infection, I checked with my vet.  We are finally getting a solid ground freeze.  We rely on that every winter to help reduce the amount of bacteria and parasite eggs in the soil.   It’s been three years since we had an adequate freeze.

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Daisy

And since Daisy and Melba are due in March and April, they will not benefit from this current cold snap.  That means, they will get antibiotics to hopefully prevent any losses this year. I hate to do that, but there is no way to test and see if it is necessary or not.  I’m not going to risk it.

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Melba

I can’t even say 100% that Daisy is bred, but Pluto usually lets me know when she’s in heat, and he hasn’t done that in ages.  So I’m guessing she is.

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Pluto

Melba is really starting to look round.  Of course, I have no idea who bred her since she busted in with Gabe and Donkey.

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Gabe

You’d think it would be easy–tan baby means Donkey; black baby means Gabe.  But that’s not actually certain because Melba’s mom is also black, so she could have either one herself.

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Donkey

Oh well, I really don’t care as long as they arrive safely.

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