No Grant for Me
Last week I went over to Helena to do a presentation for the GTA grant I was applying for. Needless to say, it was a complete waste of my time. They had already made up their minds that they weren’t going to fund it, so all my effort was for nothing.
Oh well, it was a nice drive anyway. I’ll get the funding from somewhere for the dehairing machine. If anyone has a little extra money they would like to invest in a small business with a huge potential, let me know. This is going to be quite profitable in a couple of years.
I am going to be dehairing cashmere, and only cashmere. I will be doing individual fleeces, not big batches. So anyone with only a couple of goats, or not a big amount of money, can send a fleece or two at a time and get them dehaired. It will be a pretty quick turn-around time, too. The cashmere will come back to the customer as a wonderful cloud ready to spin. Clouds are pretty easy to spin from. Hopefully in the Spring this will all come together.
Now I need to sell about 25 goats. I just have too many to give each one the individual attention to like I used to.
I’m selling does, does with kids, kids without does, and a wether or two. Also a red buck that has spectacular fleece and he passes that on to his kids. I’d keep him, but he’s becoming too related to everyone in the herd. Time for him to move on to a new home and new girls. He’s a pretty mellow guy, and easy to handle. I’ll be putting pictures on the website here pretty soon. I need to figure out exactly who all I am going to sell first.
This is the last year we have free-range turkeys! They are taking over the place and ruining all my flowers and pooping everywhere. We will be building them a huge pen to be in where they can get plenty of exercise, etc. But they will not be in the yard anymore! The chickens will be back in their huge pen, too. No more birds running around in the yard, they are making too big of a mess. I want a nice looking place, where you don’t have to always be watching where you step, and the flowers aren’t trampled, etc.
Well, that’s it for now. More as it happens………..
