Off Farm Friday Today

Today we worked on trial learning new step technique for steep areas. Got some ideas for the "back 40"  that the goats will love.

Dog and Cat Arrangement

This ritual happens EVERY morning and evening at meal time. This morning I thought I'd share.

Waiting in line for Kiki's leftovers

Kiki satiated and giving Mesa the "all clear" signal (if Kiki is not okay with Mesa eating her food, she sits on the bench until she is okay with it and Mesa waits)

Yup, EVERY meal time!

Too bad we have to paint it!

Tomorrow we sheet rock.

Base layer for goat barn (see my helper)

Soon, girls on left, boys on right, and open alley to the back 40

Yoda healing

Lucy's round belly and cute little bag! hee hee

You call that a bag? Hahaha
Hey, just sneak me some alfalfa pellets, I won't tell the man with the beard.

Developments

Hang in there, Folks! We are working hard and going to bed tired these days. The house is done on the outside, the goat barn is back on the menu (cranky wife perseverance) , the alley between "boys" and "girl" goats is up and needs a gate, Yoda is getting feisty, so he must be feeling better, the steers are frisky, which I assume means spring is on its way, Lucy has a bag and I can see the little one/s kick from the outside now and.... the chickens are laying in mass again (anyone need eggs?)... oh , and Willie is adding to the collection again (she is our BCM).

I can tell I'm getting old, my poor body aches after 5 hours of manual labor. I felt like the poor old wheel barrow today, "just hold on a little bit longer, we're almost there." Good thing I have the goats to pet and snuggle once in a while for a break. They are too darn cute!

Also, my baby is talking job and apartment after graduation in June. Sigh! Nuf said!

Tomorrow, I promise to post only pictures.

Mooooo

Cow suntan

Moooo

Freaky Friday

Poor Yoda is healing from his horn removal and today was his one week check up. Took him in and doc gave him an A+ for clean bandage and one more week before total bandage removal. Pleased as punch, I drove home and  put Yoda in with the chickens so I could clean his pen. Almost done with his pen, I hear the boys and Lucy hollering about something (they are in a separate pen to prevent head butting) so I go look and find Yoda in the brooder house with his bandage tore off, his wound exposed and in a lot of pain (no Yoda pics, it was icky). Here is a picture of the brooder house and chicken pen so you can see the relation;

Chicken pen to the left and brooder pen to the right. It's covered to protect little chicks from birds of prey. When no chickens are broody we leave the gate open as you see in this photo. We closed and locked it about a week ago so the grass would repair before we received our meat birds and turkeys in April. 

Yoda jumped the four foot fence and fell through the netting. I'm guessing this is what pulled his bandage off. 

Stop all work for the day, drive Yoda back to the vet and get him patched up. Drive home, leave him in the back of the pick-up, finish cleaning his pen, put him in his pen, give him NSAIDS and get back to work on the house.

Yoda is doing fine and resting. I couldn't figure out for the longest time how he got in the brooder pen because the gate was closed and secure. I was sure he used his Jedi powers but then I followed the eveidence.

Anyway, back to the house, roof and remodel. We managed to get enough of the roof done so we could hook up the wood stove. Its very nice!

The new door is covered because it doesn't seal yet or have a lock/door handle. 

All in all, a very exciting day and looking forward to tomorrow!

Kiki

Yes, there's a cat in this photo!

Laundry day! Not that I want to air my dirty laundry to the world (not that I am worried about anyone seeing my socks) just thought it was funny that my mean kitty is feeling so spry.

See her now?

Things are a little cramped in the house while we fix the wall. We are pretty much squeezed in the kitchen, hopefully, next week we can spread out again.