A Rough Week

  A rough week here at the farm. We lost our Lamancha buckling who was going to be a herd stud this fall. The temperatures were in the hundreds for three days and then dropped down to seventy. I don't now if he suffered from heat stroke but he died all of the sudden. He may have eaten something poisonous but we have never had any problems with the pasture he has been in and he wasn't out of that pasture. The three other kids are fine. The pasture is heavily shaded mostly woods.

The same night we lost the buck, something managed to break into our chicken coop and carried off seven chickens. We had been losing the occasional chicken; some during the day we had thought it was a stray dog but now I am leaning towards a fox. Seeing how all that was left were feathers, the chickens were all carried off.

Okay on a more positive note our Narragansett turkey hatched seven poults. She is doing a great job taking care of them leading them around the yard. They are Narragansett/Blue Slate cross. So enjoy the pics

The Kids are growing

Saanen Buckling

 I'm So Damn Hott!!( our new herd sire) and the Saneen doeling

 Angelfly and the Saanen  buckling

    We are raising four kids: three were born here and one of them we bought to be our new stud. He is a great looking black Lamancha buck.
Angelfly is looking like she is going to be a wonderful doe! She is in your face friendly and butts the others away when she think you're giving them too much attention. The other two are the Saanen twins. Not sure if we are going to keep them or not. We might let the Saanen buckling breed a few of our does. Seeing how we love his mom and she gives us about a gallon of milk a day.

Some Changes

     Well we have made some subtractions and additions to our farm. We sold four of our goats including two of our older ones: our buck Jasper and our first time freshener Clover. She was milking great out of one side but the other side was giving barely anything.
  We also sold our two mixed kids that were born this year, one of my Lionhead rabbits and a Light Brahma rooster. I picked up eight Sumatra and Sumatra cross chicks. I also got a Dominque cross rooster.
 Yesterday after a few months of searching I found a male Lionhead rabbit. So hopefully will have baby rabbits in a month or so.
 My Americana hen is also sitting on about 15 eggs that should hatch this weekend.

They have EARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Sugar, our registered Saanen doe, had twins a boy and a girl. They seem huge compared to our Lamancha cross kids. Yes, they are very cute but I still prefer the ones without ears. The buck is for sale if anyone is interested 50 dollars now seventy five as he gets older more if we are able to registered him. 

New Barn

We are working on a new barn. It should be completed in the next week or so. It will probably be used as a milking and kidding barn mainly. As most of our goats stay outside all the time with little sheds in their pens. I can't wait until this is done. We also are in a process of trying to figure out what goats to keep and which to sell it looks like Jasper may be moving on in a attempt to get new blood in our herd.

Its Getting Warmer

Angelfly Checking out chicken wire

Bilbo

Whats Down there

Febuary and Scottie

Can I climb on you

Ok how does hair taste

The three kids are getting quite big now they are full of energy and love to play. They follow you all over the yard seeing how they are bottle fed. If you sit down, they might just jump all over you. My brothers are working on building a small barn which will hopefully be done within the next month or so. Sugar is looking more and more ready to kid with each passing day. I am really in love with Firefliy's kid, Angelfly. I love her coloring and her personality.

Is it spring yet?

Blue seems to think so, by strutting around the yard and challenging anything that comes along including us. But this has made for awesome pictures of him trying to attack me. We are waiting for our hen to starting laying as they only lay in the spring and early summer. This breed is believed to have originated in Mexico about 2000 years ago. It is quite rare this days due to the commercial breeds of turkeys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well I can't resist sharing these two pics of our kid goats along with the turkey. They are growing very fast.

 

FireFly The Queen Of The Herd

Sister Milking Fly

Such A Sweet Heart

 Ok I decided to post about one of my favorite things, my Lamancha doe FireFly and pictures of all the kids she has had. She is such a sweetheart with the sweetest personality. As you can probably see. She is due to have kids in the next few months. I cant wait.

Tim Mcgraw

Jose

Casey and Tinkerbell the day they were born

 I got ya

Nubian Buck Ellie May and Sarg's father

Elllie May

Sarge

Notice the funny little Yodi ears on Sarge and Ellie May from the Lamancha Nubian cross. Lamancha bucks were hard to find where we live NW Ct so we had to breed her to a nubian. We now own a Lamancha buck named Jasper. Enjoy HAVE FUN!!!

The Four Hooved Clover

Jazzy Clovers grandmother

I thought I would share some pictures of our youngest Doe Clover. She was born last march and is a mix of alpine, Lamancha, Toggenburg, and Nubain.

Roy Clovers Father

Clover and her mother Treasure

A few days old

Clover and ME

Clover and Katrina

Clover now