New goat girls... Ruby & Lily

Well I bought two more goats... 

a Doe (Ruby Girl is from a Star and Ringo breeding) and her 7 month old Doeling (Lily is from a Ruby and Silo breeding). My friend needed to sell them so I thought why not... Ruby girl hung out with my friends Alpine buck for a few days/week, she was in heat so hopefully shes bred and will kid in May 2015. I think my girls Cocoa & Chloe were happy to see other goats... Cocoa was letting them know she is the boss. 

 I think shes pretty cute and shes a sweet girl

Bred or Not Bred...

That is the question... I'm trying to pay close attention to the girls to see if they are goin in and out of heat.  If Cocoa settled after her and Silo's last date I will know her when shes due.  Now if my little Chloe is bred I have know idea by which buck or when she will be due... in the next few months.  If she is bred is was by pure accident, I didnt want to bred her this young, she will be one at the end of December... "The Stinky Boys" broke out too many times for me to keep up this year.  We have redone their pen and the girls arent even able to get anywhere near them. 

My Beautiful Clue

I snapped these of Clue Saturday evening... 

I love how they turned out, shes such a beautiful girl 

 Look at that lip... so cute. 

Brave Rooster

It was cute to watch this rooster walk up to Fiona food bowl and start eating grain with her... pretty brave, actually Fiona is pretty sweet and shares her grain with a few of the hens, roosters and guineas. 

This picture is great... check out the pullets in the background, lol. They know they're messing out on some yummy stuff

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