Betty was laying under the hay manger when I let them out so she was covered in hay. Platinum was like ohhh look a table of hay and ate the hay right off her back 🤣
A whole new meaning to "busy bees" 🐝 😎
This never gets old! It feels magical when they all top that hill🐐🥰
😈Disbudding😈
Disbudding is the process of removing horn buds before they actually grow horns. It's not a pleasant process as it envolves burning around the base of where the horn would grow basically to the skull. They will scab over and in about 6 weeks or so that "cap" will fall off, hair will grow covering the area and you will not even be able to tell. Most farms do this at home themselves, should be done with in the first 7-10 days and the babies are awake. At this age you can't always feel thw horn bud. A lot of these babies end up with scurs (a incomplete developed horn growth and is generally not connected to the skull) it's more like a figure nail. Not all but I would say about 80% of our herd that was disbudded at a farm before coming to use have scurs. We have a lot of goats that came from a lot of different farms so we have a lot to compare. On our farm we chose to have it done by our vet, we wait till about 2 1/2 weeks, you can feel the horn bud, they are given just a little bit nitrus oxide gas so they are out for the process and they are given their first dose of CD&T at that time as well. We have still had a few scurs maybe 15%. If the process is done correctly even for the ones done at home themselves babies should be bouncing around within a few hours. We had the first 6 babies done this morning and they are bouncing around like nothing happened. You can see them very active in this video just taken and you can see thier burn marks. We realize this is an extra cost but one we personally feel is worth it🥰 We do a lot of care ourselves but we leave this task to the professionals.
What the buzz?!? It's 🐝🐝🐝day!!! We got new bees!!! Our bees all took off last fall when we brought in our last hive🥺 So we are starting new colonies. We'll still have honey because they are not starting from scratch as we preserved the frames over winter that are already pulled (comb is made) so they are just ready to get to work! We'll be installing these bees into their hives tomorrow.
Did anyone order baby goat popcorn 🤣 Fynn and Mables triplets.
Chitchat says fresh shavings!!!
Everybody got an extra thick layer of bedding today. Ruger is making his bed and apparently doesn't like a lumpy bed 🤣😂🤣
❄️❄️A follow up to our winter tips post the other day❄️❄️
Oh Mable🤦🏼♀️🤣😂🤣 Side note she has a baby bump 🥰
We will have the adorable goat sugar cookies again this Saturday!!! Cute and yummy😍
3rd Annual Christmas Shop on the farm
Dec 16th 11-4 ⛄️🎅🎄🎁
On the move this afternoon. Watch how the front of the line stopped and waited for most of the stragglers to catch up before they proceeded🥰
Our neighbors are cooler than yours 😁 This has been going on for hours!!! If it's anything like their other parties it will be going on for MANY more hours well into the night! We LOVE it!!! We turn the radios off in the barn during chores to enjoy our live music concert 😊
I'm really not sure what she is doing🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ But that's at about 6 1/2 - 7 foot of the ground!!!
The Mini Nubian babies are the least happy about last night's changes ☹️
