Monday, October 1, 2012

Fall is among us

Oh how I love Autumn! The cool crisp air, trees changing to beautiful colors, pumpkin pie and more apples then I know what to do with.

We're busy putting up enough hay to get us through until next spring and planning breedings for our dairy goats. The wethers are almost ready for the butcher and the does are drying up. Soon Christmas will be here and hopefully we will be ready.

We added a new member to our herd, a sweet little Nigerian Dwarf named Macy. Miss Macy is a wonderful addition to our little herd, she has a sweet disposition and puts out a decent amount of milk for being so little. Some changes are coming our way. We are selling one of our Oberhasli does (and butchering her two wethers) and will be moving our breeding program to polled Nigerians, Saanens, and Oberhaslis. We dislike disbudding our kids but we do not keep does with horns, so we think this will be a great move for us. The only goats allowed to have horns on our property are the meat wethers since they are butchered by 6 months old.

We also have some beautiful new kittens ready for their new families. We have flame point Himalayans available now and blue smoke, black smoke, tuxedo, and bi color Himalayans available in the next few weeks. These are being sold for a breeder friend of ours. Please email me if interested. This will be an on going arrangement between us and our friend so stay tuned for more to come.

Enjoy the beautiful fall weather, soon winter will be among us. Time for some hearty root vegetable soup to warm us up.