Friday, July 31, 2009
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.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know Lola is still doing great. She is growing and busy playing. Hard to get work done with her nosing into everything. She has become the boss of her pasture, bullying our little Holstein steer and pushing the dog around.
We look forward to exposing her to our bull in December to get the milk production on the way.
Thanks again.
Jim Edinger