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.  

The bobtail cow who I finally named Ladybug is finally putting on weight.  Her milk supply isn’t great but I’m hopeful it will continue to improve as she adjust to our water and gains some weight.  First picture is when we got her. 

 This was Saturday.  

While Galveston came in this morning to eat and be milked for the first time.  We have had to driver her into the stanchion. She wants to hold her milk up.  I have discovered if I attach milker to three tests and hand milk the closest she will usually let it down.  

December is bagging nicely and I’m hopeful she will soon calve.  Then we will be doing the back stroke in milk.  Kids are ready!  In a couple of months they will be groaning that they have Soooo much milk to drink.  

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.