Saturday, November 30, 2019
Thanksgiving in Pictures
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Duckponics!
Friday, November 8, 2019
Wet and cold
Thursday, November 7, 2019
COLD!
Monday, November 4, 2019
November and Monday!
Monday already! Laundry half done. Chores finished. It is warm enough, barely to have second coffee on the porch.
Chores took less than an hour. That’s milking two cows, bottling 6 lambs and 4 calves, feeding my ducks and Muscovy and finally cleaning up the milker and bottles. I have great helpers! I milk while they feed lambs. Then I took that milk and filled calf bottles and they did calves while I did second cow. Second cow’s milk is lambs milk tonight. Last night I didn’t get enough to have morning lamb milk so they got powder.
So now you have way more information on my cows than you probably ever wanted!
Today Is greenhouse and in house water day. I may keep a grand this afternoon. Dishes in the sink look like they have never been done. I want to start cleaning the garage out for Thanksgiving. So we can set tables up in there as needed. We have a storage container set and ready to handle our clutter. Down side is shelves won’t be here until AFTER Thanksgiving for it so we will stack and then reorganize when they come in.
I started a trend! First I, with dh help of course did a duckponics. Then two friends are into it. Now my husband decided to do a larger scale one. We saw this idea where I got my Muscovy. There is a switch that each time the pump cuts off it switches to the next bed. Will fill it then cut off and go to the next bed while the first one drains. All the water will drain back into the duck pond. The totes will be filled with gravel.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Thursday ramble
Funny of this morning. My other DRY milk cow is feeling left out I guess she should be bred and could calve in November. She may or may not be starting to bag. This morning she was dripping to the point of puddling milk! Her bag isn’t any tighter but she was leaking. I just shook my head. Only at my house.
I have a new lamb for now. I’m not holding out much hope. But it did make it through the night. It isn’t from my sheep. It’s someone my son knows. I have yet to save a lamb he has given me. I think he waits to long to pick them up. This one honestly felt like a dried up dead lamb. Absolutely nothing but skin and bones and the skin even feels dried out. I gave it molasses coffee and probiotics while I thawed colostrum and then gave it colostrum twice before bed. I gave it milk as soon as I got up this morning. Time will tell. When the sun comes out I will move it to a sunny spot. I’m still doubtful.
I found a guinea nest! Dogs bothered her this morning so don’t know if she will go back. I just shook my head when I saw it. Said dog is going to get his hearing aid reapplied