11/04/2024
Been working on getting things ready for the cold this winter! It’s taken a few months to get them completed but hubby redid my small little worn out Buck huts and replaced them with big metal shelters like my Doe’s have. And then on Saturday we spent the day putting 15 tons of AB inside and around the outside of the goat barns as well as cleaning the outside pens. Didn’t really get pics since I was shoveling and wheelbarrowing and raking out all the material after my husband would dump it into each shelter. Our nephew came to help as well. Then after we spread it all out my husband used his Plate Tamp to compact it all down.
After 8 years the goats had dug huge craters all over in their shelters and so this is something that’s needed to be done for quite a while. On the outside along the metal walls they like to dig big holes before they lay down in the shade there. So there were big holes from the outside coming inside where wind and rain would blow through the holes into the shelter🤦🏻♀️ goats are so destructive! I’m very excited to have my new Buck Barns all done and ready for winter! With 6 bucks now their little shelters would not house them all during the cold winter months. You can see in the pics the old huts he removed and are still sitting in their pens. We will be taking those out of the pens and setting them out in the pasture area just for extra shelters for when it rains or snows for the guardian dogs or goats to use when out to pasture. It’s been down in the low 20’s overnight this past week and suppose to be colder this week. We easily get down into the low teens and sometimes single digits during the winter months. But it’s usually just cold and dry, not usually any snow. Maybe some rain or a dusting of snow but depends on the winter. We shall see what this winter brings 🤷🏻♀️
