Windy Acres Homestead

11/01/2025

Looking for canning jars again. Hoping to be able to make extra cat and dog food for our special needs furbabies that will be shelf stable instead of needing to freeze everything. Not even using our water warmers yet and the electric bill is out of control. 🥹

10/31/2025

Please keep in mind that many people have pets during this government shutdown and may need to make the choice between feeding themselves or their pets. Please consider donating pet food to food banks or even donate to your local vet for veterinary care for their furbaby’s care. And of course, shelters are going to be hit hard. Not only food donations are importan, but Gift cards would be very helpful.

10/21/2025

My goal next summer is to build 2 “Catio’s”. One for our She Shed kitties (TT, KT, Morty and Piranha) and one for our house kitties. Diagrams are all made- now to start gathering the supplies to make it happen!

10/08/2025

Naughty Casper

10/06/2025

Had a “COWS ARE OUT” moment last night around 8:30 last night. Only difference is it was “GOATS ARE OUT”! Thank god I had moonlight and my babies are spoiled rotten. Got them all back in in about 20 minutes but spent a good amount of time fixing the fence where they broke through. Did a temporary fix. I’m thinking something spooked them. Ron has seen coyotes while baling hay near the back of the field and one of Ron’s friends has been having a problem with them chasing his heifers. Going to start running the dogs around my pens again. That seems to keep critters away.

10/03/2025

Having a rough day. One of my goats hasn’t been feeling well for a few days and I’ve been treating her with antibiotics, wormed her and giving her electrolytes and liquid vitamins. She was perkier earlier and went to check on her tonight and she passed away. Her name was Emily. 😢💙
What’s hard is we have a little buck named Dancer who I’ve been trying to correct his front legs (he has bad knees). We made the decision that since he can’t use his front legs he doesn’t have a good quality of life and we are putting him down probably tomorrow. This is the hardest part of what I do. These decisions suck! 😢😢😢😢

This is Dancer. 😢

09/24/2025

Somebody is tired. This is Sassy and her name fits her perfectly. She came to us from the same place as Peanut, Wink, Punkin and Goober. Pretty confident that they are at least half siblings.

09/21/2025

After more than 2 months of baiting live traps, leaving out food and regaining his trust so he would let me pick him up………… Bandit is back in the house!!!!

I’ll try to get a picture tomorrow or the next day but he’s just too skittish right now. He was a rescue from a seasonal park near Clayton a couple years ago. He escaped out of the house when we were dealing with a water leak that was out of control when we found it and the floor disintegrated leaving an escape hatch. He found a home in our storage trailer to keep out of the weather and was well fed and watered, but was so scared. 😢💙

09/15/2025

So Hollie my bottle baby has become an escape artist. This has been going on ever since she was reintroduced to the herd. Every day she finds a way out and I make that spot “Hollie Proof” only to find the next day she is out again using a new spot. She has even managed to get on the roof of an adjoining pen and jumped off it (over 6’ high). Well this is where I found her today! 🙄

09/01/2025

Some things we are looking for:

Food processor- (burnt up ours a couple days ago making specialty food for some of our special needs furbabies)

Wooden snow fencing

Heavy Duty pallets

Believe it or not: window air conditioners, fans and box fans. It still gets warm during the day at times.

Plywood

Insulation

Fencing

Fence posts (wood or steel)

Screws- all sizes, lengths and types.

Metal sheeting

Plastic sheeting

I repurpose so much, so before you throw it out- let me see if I can reuse it.

Like everyone else, it’s been a tough. Unfortunately, it’s been tougher on animals. I don’t have to describe what we have seen, as well as every other rescue around is seeing. It’s domesticated, farm and wildlife.

Please, check with your local shelter to see if you have anything they can use.

08/01/2025