Time for Leftovers

I don’t know about you, but I am ready for a nice relaxing weekend.

Brigit (I confess, I hate to see her leave the farm)

a big Sky stretch

Miss Goose

Maybeline

Monarch butterfly

Ostara is not going anywhere

Herbie

I picked my pie pumpkins last weekend.

Hilda and her mini-her, Shellie

Hopefully, the goats cooperate.

Updates on Health

Selling kids last weekend made a couple of girls decide they should get milked. Saturday morning, before I could even react, Caroline was rushing through the door and ready to go.  I am letting her come in each evening to get milked.

Sweet Caroline

Then there’s Chiffon.  She’s never been milked, but she seemed to think she should get to come in, so I decided to milk her.  I don’t think it’s what she was expecting.  But she didn’t do too badly.

Chiffon trying to figure it all out

Cutie, Sidney and LilyAnn have been doing well since they went back out to pasture.  I did manage to catch Sidney and Cutie and cut the burrs out of their beards.  That has to be more comfortable.

Cutie with a stub of a beard

Antigone and Spunky are hanging together again.  I do feel a bit bad about putting them together for just a week and then selling Spunky so soon(hopefully this weekend).  I just couldn’t help it.

Spunky and Antigone

The boys keep getting more and more stinky (hard to believe).  I do think that as long as Xerxes is in there, Benji won’t be able to get close enough to a girl to breed her through the fence.  That’s a good thing.

Frodo, Benji, Freddie, and Xerxes

I decided that I would put Cinnamon, Haley and Bambi up north since the other girls were doing fine.

Bambi and Cinnamon

Haley enjoying sweet feed

Bambi has steadily lost weight throughout the summer, and I can’t imagine she’ll be here much longer.  It’s easier for me to baby her and make sure she gets a bit extra to eat up there.

The littles are doing better.  They are really into sweet feed and are getting more energy.

Simon, Crystal and Howie (Terry is eating behind)

I decided to move them up north, so they can keep eating green stuff and get a little more exercise without having to go out on the Back Forty.

Crystal

Of course, Howie hopped right through the gate, so I had to put a panel in front so he couldn’t get out.

Howie and Cinnamon

I did also have to keep an eye on them so the old ladies didn’t pick on them, but everyone seems to be doing well now.

Bluebirds and Butterflies

There are lots of bluebirds in pasture right now.

two of them in this picture (flying and on top)

They are not a brilliant blue, so I’m guessing they are juveniles.

Pretty soon, they will start their migration to warmer climates for the winter.

I’m going to enjoy seeing them out in pasture as long as I can before they head south.  And there are a lot of wild asters in the ditch right now.  I hadn’t seen this many butterflies in one place since we went into the butterfly room at the Long Island Aquarium. They are perfect for these late summer butterflies. Painted Lady

Yellow Sulfur

I finally figured out the difference between the viceroy and the monarch butterflies because they were both right there on the same plant.

Monarch (larger and not black line on the bottom wing)

Viceroy (smaller and the black line on the bottom wing)

There is also a little bit of fresh clover after our recent rains.

Painted Lady

Bumblebee

Hopefully, they last for a while longer.