Today I said good-bye to Penny.
She was such a regal goat and a very good (protective–beat me up) mom.
I will miss her.
Hoof care is never-ending with the number of goats I have here.
Luckily, our dry weather is at least good for the goats’ feet.
I have a bit of a break in projects, so I am trying to do a few goats each day and checking them off my list.
The milking girls or retired milking girls are easy.
They are happy to come into the milk room and let me do their feet instead of milking them.
The only problem is that they want to get their hooves trimmed twice a day after I do that.
Some of the others aren’t so easy. I have to tie them.
Whenever I trim hooves outside, Casey is my helper.
How does he help? He spends the entire time I’m bent over trimming hooves rubbing his head against mine, which does wonders for the ponytail. Real helpful!
I am making progress with hooves, but by the time I’m done, it will be time to start over again. That’s just the nature of farming.
Now that the fence is finished, we are pretty much back to normal here.
I moved the bucks (Xerxes, Freddie and Milo) back to the front pasture.
I will replace some of the panels here with the old, heavier ones we removed from the old fence.
I’ll keep adding more bucks as I wean them.
I really need to work on catching some of these wild boys to wean.
I moved my two girls from the Love Shack. Before I moved them, I did catch them and give them copper.
They are much happier with a bigger space and green stuff to munch on.
I’m going to try to move Penny up with them because her arthritis is increasingly bothering her.
The little kids who had never been out to pasture before are figuring it out.
Mostly.
Edith keeps getting left in the barnyard, but Antigone is a good mom. She comes up and feeds her and then Edith can’t seem to figure out how to follow her back out to pasture.
Everyone else is back on the front have of the Back Forty.
Life is good!