It’s breeding season here on the Banks of Salt Creek. It has been just over two years since I experienced my first breeding. I’m practically an old pro now. I watch to make sure it happens. I bring the girls back multiple times a day or two. I guess you could say I’m quite the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wonderful Weekend
After a very rainy week, a gorgeous weekend was upon us. The weekend began with a new project. Actually the first part of a big project. Michael is fixing the garage. It will be a four part project. Friday he began with the door….if you could call it a door. The door that Michael replaced […]
Fun in the Barn
The last post showed some of the things our animals do in the morning. Well, they are not the only ones doing photo worthy activities. Here are my boys. They are finished with their chores so now it is time to play. Nicholas is working on climbing the rope. He is getting quite good at […]
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 […]
Motivation
Motivation is a good thing. Being former city folk, we are not used to being SO busy on the weekends. If we were busy it was usually going somewhere to do something fun as a family. On Thursday Michael put together his weekend to-do list. The boys and I sat in rapt attention. What were […]
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 […]