Shalali Infante and Pint-Size Farm, located in New Mexico, breeds miniature jerseys, Nigerian dwarf goats, and American Guinea Hogs shipping animals all over the U.S.

I remembered to make pancakes!

We used the dehorning paste on the little goat kid.  YUCK.  It was awful.  He screamed and screamed and screamed.  We decided that we will suck it up and get the disbudding iron.  That at least is only while it is being done.  As soon as you stop burning it, then they seem to be okay.

The boys and I put of split (lengthwise) cattle panels up between Amy & Colby’s yard and our yard over the top of the fence to keep Zed inside our yard.  He was jumping over the 5-foot tin fence to get into their yard to play with their Beagle. That evening, I saw him trying to get over, and he jumped right into the fence and bounced off and landed on the ground.  I hope he learns from that.  It was pretty awful work though, with all the Pyracantha.  I got a thorn slapped into my upper lip- it bled for about 10 minutes.

I baked 2 loaves of bread, about a dozen English muffins, about a half dozen pita breads, and 4 flat breads (I forgot to let the first batch of pitas rise, so they are just flat bread, but YUMMY).

Sweete milked in the PM.  She said Annie was in a RAGING standing heat.

I shaved Buttercup, to make picking the ticks off of her every night easier.  Poor littler girl, she has so many ticks.  As a result of shaving her, we realized just how FAT she is.  She needs a diet or some exercise.  I guess I should try and take her for a walk every day.

Milk Stats: We milked 7.31 gallons; Sally gave 26.7 pounds or 3.24 gallons; Janie gave 22.2 pounds or 2.7 gallons; Annie gave 11.3 pounds or 1.37 gallons (down because of her heat); we collected 23 eggs or 1.92 dz.

Ground and soaked flour for bread.  I mixed brown rice, red wheat, oat groats, and spelt.  I planned to make pancakes, English muffins and try pita again the next day.

Worked on budgeting.

Milk Stats: We milked 7.38 gallons; Sally gave 26.8 pounds or 3.23 gallons; Janie gave 21.1 pounds or 2.55 gallons; Annie gave 13.2 pounds or 1.59 gallons; we collected 23 eggs or 1.92 dz.

Irrigation day.

As soon as milking was done, I washed 3.25 pounds of butter.  Then I skimmed 8.75 gallons of milk for butter and clabber.  I made 4 qts of yogurt with the afternoon milking.

I was in charge of opening all the gates from the main ditch down to our little private ditch.  I didn’t have to do much, because someone used it in the morning, and just kept it running, so I just made sure it was in fact open all the way.  When I was finished, I turned management over to the neighbors, and I don’t know when it got shut down all the way.  Hopefully, it wasn’t too late.  During irrigation, a storm started coming in.  We also overflowed into the Apricot yard and the Old Chicken yard again.  I had the little truck loaded up and was able to kind of stay on top of it.  It was odd to be shoveling dirt to stop irrigation flooding in a rain storm.  Ah, the joys of living in New Mexico.

We had chicken and rice.

Milk Stats: We milked 7.06 gallons; Sally gave 25.4 pounds or 3.05 gallons; Janie gave 20.8 pounds or 2.49 gallons; Annie gave 12.7 pounds or 1.52 gallons; we collected 24 eggs or 2 dz.

I got the boys to load up the little white truck with dirt in anticipation for irrigating tomorrow.  They filled in all the trouble areas and then reloaded the truck in case we still needed it for leaks.

I went Swing Dancing at the Height Community Center.  Andre decided not to go, as he was still having some eye trouble from his migraine yesterday.

Milk Stats: We milked 6.83 gallons; Sally gave 24.8  pounds or 2.97 gallons; Janie gave 19.9  pounds or 2.38 gallons; Annie gave 12.4 pounds or 1.48 gallons; we collected 28 eggs or 2.33 dz.

It was very very very hot.  We put the boys’ box fan to blow on Penelope and the piglets, as it was just too hot.

Andre again drove us to and from Pansy’s for his algebra lesson.  While he was there, I picked up another box fan for the boys so we could just keep the one out in the barn there for the hogs.

We had left over chicken for dinner.

Milk Stats: We milked 7 gallons; Sally gave 24.4 pounds or 2.95 gallons; Janie gave 20.1 pounds or 2.45 gallons; Annie gave 13.1 pounds or 1.6 gallons; we collected 24 eggs or 2 dz.