New Additions

We are so busy lately. It's so easy. And fun. We love to build, and we have years of pent up energy that is begging to be expended. Farming is a long, slow investment, and at the beginning the only reward is work and enjoying animal personalities. Days go by and we just feed them and hang out with them, then there are days crammed with buying more, transporting them, penning them, and catching them after they escape. 

This is Reese. She's an Alpine. We bought her because we have four bottle babies and formula is gosh darn expensive. I picked her out of the herd because I like her color and the tightness of her bag. Unfortunately she's not producing enough so we need another. Lol! 

This is Abraham. So named because he can't have pork and we are hoping for many children. ;) He keeps running from our Duroc girls but hopefully he will grow a bigger pair and chase them back. ;)

This is Maggie and Emma. Berkshires. Berkshire meat is considered the best pork. Recently Maggie was mauled by a neighbors dog and had to get stitches. We are still watching her to see if she will be ok. 

I'm down to fifty seven of these guys. About half are roosters and will be butchered in a month. About time too; they are getting aggressive. Fun fact; young rooster crows sound a bit like a dying cow. 😉

Baby Love

Last Friday I got a text from a guy selling goat bottle babies at a steal. He had five bucklings and I said I'd take all five. So I lowered the back seat in my Pilot, laid down a tarp, loaded Micaiah in the back and went for a road trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The road to Fayetteville was hilly and windy and it took an hour and a half to get there but it was worth it. Micaiah played with her stuffed animals and asked minimal questions. ;)

Adam couldn't make it for the trip and as I hadn't met this guy I took Jesus and some insurance with me. ;)

Everything was easy and above board and I left with these noisy guys.

I have it on good authority that I'm crazy. I have no issue with that. ;) We got them home and fed them. I'm probably going to sell three and buy a doe in milk because milk supplement is stupid expensive. While I was gone Adam fenced in a garden for me and put the piglets in to till up the soil. We added the kids and a couple chickens, hopefully to teach the piglets not to eat them. The piglets aren't tilling fast enough so I'm going to move them and put one of the big guys in. Here's Micaiah being cute! Today I told her that everyone is good at different things. She replied, "Kind of like I'm good at being cute?" Yup. ;)