16/09/2024
We have been MIA! The farm has gone under some pretty big changes the last several months, with more in the works. Here is what we have been up to!
*Star Night has went to her new home with our friend Kenzie! They are a great team and have already won some ribbons 💜 Poker, Kate, and Astrid are still spoiled, fat, and happy.
*We significantly downsized our dairy goat herd. The kids were given a choice to either keep them, or, each keep 1 doe and the buck and get to do more 4H projects next year. They chose to sell and Wyatt will be adding 2 hogs and Paityn 2 lambs next year to their fair animals. Sapphire (Alpine) and Snow Rose (Nubian) along with Solomon the buck are still living happily in their pens.
*Paityn's feeder steer Apache was donated back thanks to Craig Phillips with Shop N Save, so he is now growing into her market steer project for the 2025 Tucker County Fair.
*Rabbits have downsized slightly with the loss of a few of our older ones and focusing mostly on the Standard Rex. Currently we have Blue, our blue Flemish Giant buck, and Winter and Jimmy, our 2 females, which are hopefully both bred for babies early October. With the passing of Dewey, our rex buck, we retained one of his sons, IT, and we obtained a new female from dear friends of ours, named Grandmama. We still have Cookie and Tootsie, both rex females, and a new Zealand female named Sylvie.
*Ms. Quackers is gaining 2 new female ducky friends soon, so her 2 boyfriends, Big Chungus and Cayou can give her a little break!
*Now for the big change up. We now will be only raising purebred Hereford and shorthorn cattle. We added 2 new ASA shorthorn plus girls, Lucy who is AI bred to White Buffalo for a March baby(fingers crossed for a heifer) and Izzy, a beautiful blue roane heifer. We still have #99(hopefully moved up to April), #100 (hopefully moved up to March), and Gizmo (due in Jan), our Hereford mamas, and we added another Hereford we call Trinity, who is bred to an Angus bull for a January baby the kids will most likely show. Ms. Newton pr*****ed yet again and earned a ride to the sale barn. We also took Sampson the bull, the remaining 2 calves, and Tuck the beef to the sale barn Saturday at Jackson County. This made room for our incoming ASA bull, who comes first part of October! Name is TBD. He will spend the fall and winter with Apache just eating and growing so he will be ready to get to work come April.
We are doing a lot of structural and pasture improvements as well, and looking forward to having these projects complete! Stay tuned for pics to be added soon!
