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Vacation time before the county fair.

It has been a couple of weeks since I have written a post due to some travelling. I spent the beginning of July travelling to Boston for a work trip. It was a great trip with a good balance of work, eating, and sightseeing. A couple days after I returned home the kids and IContinue reading “Vacation time before the county fair.”

Barn Update

It’s been awhile since I’ve written a post life sure gets busy during the summer. The chickens are enjoying the nice summer days with warm days and summer storms that night. I was out of town last weekend and right before we left we had a pretty huge summer storm. Pretty high winds came throughContinue reading “Barn Update”

Loki- the up and coming rooster

This morning I was able to capture Loki working on his crow. He is 13 weeks old. Enjoy.

When the kids play

The family headed up north to see family for the weekend so the animals were on their own. When we arrived home on Sunday, they were all full of energy, including the goats. A video probably captures their excitement better than words:

Daily Chores

Chicken Update: 1 broody chicken (Marilyn), 2 post-broody chickens (Jackie & Lahaina) = only 6 laying hens. We are ramping up to get ready for the wright county fair and getting the kids settled in 4-H. One of the big pieces of 4-H is having the kids raise the animals and be able toContinue reading “Daily Chores”

A hay filled father’s day

It was a 90 plus Sunday which is a great day to be at the lake. However, storms were planned for tonight so we offered to help the neighbors with their hay. They have previously offered to bail our back field so it was a good trade. The kids were in charge of raking theContinue reading “A hay filled father’s day”

Are you smarter than a goat?

The barn is set up to house both the goats and chickens. The problem with that is we have to have a large gate that lets the goats roam free bht them locks out the chickens. I had done some research on goat proof chicken feeders and doirs and decided to try and creafe aContinue reading “Are you smarter than a goat?”

“WHAT” a white egg

So, I have all brown egg layers, well actually, I have a california white who was suppose to lay white eggs but has been laying brown since the beginning so I gave up months ago and accepted I have all brown egg layers. That is until today. We have a beautiful white egg. We eillContinue reading ““WHAT” a white egg”

Goat Show Day

We were able to have all 3 goats trimmed and we were off and running by 7:30 am for the youth goat show. One of the benefits of Nigerians is we were able to get all our supplies, family of 4, and 3 goats into a Pilot. The drive was about an hour drive toContinue reading “Goat Show Day”

Getting ready for the show

It has been I’m busy couple of weeks. The kids last day of school came and we have enjoyed some hot humid summer days. This is perfect timing for us to try our hand at clipping the goats for the kids first youth goat show. The goat breeder was gracious enough to invite us backContinue reading “Getting ready for the show”