April 9, 2009

Another pretty day. The goats are taking advantage of it too by getting out of the pasture and eating the new leaves in the backyard. This will have to be stopped, especially before the garden goes in. The ring leader is an Alpine cross goat and she it must be hereditary. Her mother would climb fences and trees just to get out of the pasture. She has passed this along to all of her babies. Suri, the goat will make up for it though with a nice udder and a lot of milk.

Dusty worked on the fencing and gates while the horses played. We could spend every day working on the fencing and never get done. We are trying to fence off pastures so we can rotate through the summer. This will help with parasite control as well as keeping the pastures going if there is drought.

Feeding went well with no problems except for the one legged rooster attacking Donny while he tried to water the chickens. Hop-A-Long hurt is leg in a fight with another rooster but he gets around quite well on one leg.