Evening Chores

The winter weather wasnt so awful today... 

Actually it was kinda nice this evening while I was goin about my barnyard chores. 

 

 They're always happy to see the "hay" lady

 Thankful for some fresh unfrozen water

 Cocoa and Chloe enjoying a special treat of grain

Sweet Chloe will be 11 months old on the 27th.  

Shes from Tulip and Ringo Dec. 2013 Quads

 When your chickens free range ya never know where you'll find eggs sometimes.  This hen has been laying eggs in the unused feeder for atleast 5 days now, lol.  I will start checking this spot daily.

Ended the evening letting Fiona free range

Winter Hay

 I bought 95 more bales yesterday... that makes a total of 298 bales since I started buying hay for the winter months. I believe I'm goin into winter with about 350 bales of hay for the horses & goats. I'm sure I'll be buying & putting round bales out too. Some of the load fell off in that yard, I'm so glad it didnt fall off as we were goin down the road.  

My New Little Barn

Brian and I went about 2 weeks ago and looked at some wooden buildings. We picked one out that I liked , its 12x20 and has lofts at both ends. I made my first payment on it and will be making the monthly payments. It got delivered a few days ago... I'm so happy to have a nice place to store hay, feed, tack and a nice dry place to milk my goats in. Later this month we will be picking up the last of my hay 80-100 bales to go in here.  I have plans... I would love for us to build stalls on one side one day. 

 12 x 20

Changes with My Little Goat Herd

My little goat herd changed again last Sunday (10-26-14)... long story short I sold Tulip & Star back to my friend Sarah over at Life At Goodwife Farm, visit her blog I know she will sharing the news soon. Tulip and Star have been with me about 3 years, I have learned so much from having them start my herd... my Cocoa & Chloe are Tulips daughters, they are my main girls now.  Cocoa was born May 2012 and Chloe Dec. 2013. I still have my two Nubian bucks Ringo & Silo.  The day Tulip and Star left they both were in heat they went on a date with Silo, hopefully they are bred and will be due to kid around March 2014... I will be getting two doelings from them. I plan on breeding Cocoa to Silo the next time I catch her in heat. 

Tulip

 Star

 Star

 "The Stinky Boys"

Silo & Ringo

Working Cattle

Sunday was such a beautiful day to ride... we helped a bunch of friends work cattle. We brought them in and sorted the calves from the herd. Then we had to bring in a few more cows from another pasture. I've went and mostly hung back and watched, trying to learn what to do, now I just tell them to tell me what to do.  Sunday was my second time helping and I think Clue & I did really good... I Love It!

Such A Beautiful Place 

Working Clue

This girl and I have come such along way together...

Lunging her before we went and worked cattle today

I love her so much

Random Horse Pictures

Just wanted to share some wonderful memories I have made in the past few months/weeks riding with friends or working with friends at their barns