It is a gorgeous Sunday here on the farm so I thought I would toss out a cute video of baby bucklings. This was taken a couple days after they were born. On Tuesday, the three multicolored ones will be three weeks old, and the two black ones will be three weeks on Saturday. Have […]
Mouse Finally Kids
Mouse’s due date was March 22. She didn’t have her babies on March 22. She did not have them on March 23, she did not have them here or there, she did not have them in a box, she did not have them with a fox….I digress. YEAH! She lost her ligaments on Friday morning. […]
Oreo, Bucklings, and Boys
When I last left you, we were on Thursday and a play date was scheduled. Michael would also be getting home that night. Joshua and Nicholas were a great help to me all week. As a matter of fact, the only reason the house was clean is because they cleaned it for me. A carpool […]
Baby Goats Just Keep Coming
It has been a really busy two weeks. I’m very behind on posting updates. We started on March 15 with Brown Sugar giving birth to THREE baby boys. Here are some pictures of them at four days old. (Remember, if you click on any picture it enlarges them) You don’t think I could only show […]
Ramblin Rose and Her Two Buds
Somewhere between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m. on Saturday Ramblin Rose kidded. She had two beautiful bucklings. Here is one of them: What happened is, Michael told the boys they needed to take the first two hour shifts in the barn on Friday night/Saturday morning. Michael and Nicholas went out first and by 1:45 a.m. they […]
Three New Goat Bucklings
Guess what. We have three new goat bucklings on the farm. Ok, so the title gave it away. This is what Brown Sugar looked like the day before she kidded. I figured she had more than two in there. Her due date was Tuesday, March 14. We thought she might kid in the middle of […]
2015 Farm Production Report
A happy Monday to you. Isn’t it nice to see blue sky and green plants. Almost makes you feel warm even though it is January. Almost. I thought you might be interested in knowing what Salt Creek Acres grew/produced over the last twelve months. I guess I should clarify. The only things that have been […]
Chickens are Omnivores. I Have Proof.
Being busy, I’ve forgotten to post about our Thanksgiving turkey. It was delicious. You remember we celebrated with my family up in Portland. We brought the leftover turkey home and put it in the refrigerator. The next day, I took it out to make lunch. I made myself a turkey,provolone, cranberry sauce panini. I left […]
Nature Walk Sans Goats
Michael had plans for our Saturday afternoon. Some sort of survivalist activity. We would need to use compasses, communicate with signals, etc. Then he started working on the garage door project on Friday and didn’t have time to set everything up in the lower acreage. So we took the goats for a walk. For some […]
Animals in the Morning
Every morning when we go out to open the barn we are greeted with the same routine. When I open the chicken coop, I’ve noticed the new rooster, a White Brahma we got from a friend, is always to last to rise and shine. He is always the last one on the roost. I understand, […]
Milk Theif
Halloween marked eight weeks since the two baby does had been separated from their moms. The night before Michael thought it was time to put them back together again. As you can see in the first picture, everyone was very curious about the two “new comers.” The babies immediately took high ground which allowed them […]
Hello Again (part two)
Ok, so we left with Michael heading to NY for his annual meeting. One last thing we needed to do before he left was tattoo the two babies. The last time we tattooed baby goats we had our friend Raspberry do it. This time we thought we would do it on our […]