Lots of Happenings
Well, not everything is going smoothly around here. Last week was not good. Thursday when I was watering the gardens, the water pressure went way down and the water turned milky white. I quickly turned everything off and didn’t use the hose the rest of the day. That night I watered with one sprinkler and all was fine. Not sure what happened there, but everything is working now.
Friday morning I had to put down my favorite young and up-coming buck, Simon. He had a massive seizure that he wasn’t coming out of, so I had to get the 22 and shoot him. John is the one that usually does that sort of thing. (I’ve only ever had 2 goats that I had to have put down). But, he’s not here right now, so I had to do it myself. It took about 20 minutes for me to talk myself into doing it, then I got the job done. Not easy, but Simon was suffering, so it had to be done. Now I just have Angus and Rusty, the two adult bucks. I do have two kids from this year that are looking pretty good that are still bucklings, so they should work out fine.
I now am going to have my own label for the goat meat. When I took two goats in yesterday to be processed, we talked about getting my own label made since I can sell it at the Farmers’ Market now. It will say ” Pine Needle Farm All Natural Montana Chevon”. I have eight more goats to get processed, or sold, before too much longer. I need to get down to 50 goats by this fall.
The baby turkeys are growing nicely. There are still a dozen of them. There is a hen sitting on a nest again, so one of these days there might be some more babies. A chicken is sitting on a nest, too. Actually there are three chickens sitting, so who knows how many chicks there will be. There is one right now. It’s a cute little thing. Hopefully there will be quite a few more, so we have some for the freezer this fall.
I’ve started cleaning out the main goat pen now. It’s dry enough now to pick it up and it doesn’t weigh a huge amount. It’s still heavy and hard work, but it’s managable now. Seventeen loads so far, and a lot more to go. There will be a huge compost pile when it’s all done!
Well, that’s all for now……
