Meet Sunny! He's a one horned, curly headed little Toggenburg billy born in February, about the same time as Hunny & Bunny's babies. I've never seen such a curly mop on a Toggenburg but he sure is a cute little guy! I waited a while to take pictures because he was full of burrs when we got him and I clipped them out leaving him some bald spots and looking kind of scrubby. I also had to shave his beard since that was full of burrs. Shaving the beard off a billy goat, what a disgrace to him! Poor guy :( He's working on growing it back though. Here are some more pictures of the Toggs. We had a photo shoot and they all wanted to check out the camera! Bunny especially liked to pose for pictures.
We recently had a set of boer triplets born, completely by surprise! She had lost a set of triplets last spring and Mike thought she didn't get bred again and was just really fat! Well having three babies sure slimmed her down! Thankfully the weather was nice and the little ones did just fine without any help from us.
Our new little chicks are doing great, all are healthy and growing fast. I think we got a rooster in the mix though. I ordered all pullets but I guess they make mistakes sometimes. Its not for sure until we hear him start trying to crow but his comb is growing and turning pink already and he's only 5 weeks old. None of the others have combs like this yet. His name is O'Reilly. Doesn't he just look like a rooster?
The other chickens are still outside but will be moving into the warm barn soon. I've been letting them out in the other pasture since there isn't much left of their pasture.
We just got an old surge milker from a neighbor. It needs some cleaning and new hose and special goat inflations but it will be much easier than milking by hand. This neighbor is also suppose to be finding us a portable vacuum pump and hopefully we will have everything we need.
I'm all done canning for the year and I just love the looks of a full pantry. I have green beans, pickles, salsa, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, spiced apples, plums, peaches, applesauce, pears, apples, strawberry jam, apple jelly, mint jelly, and plum jelly. In dry storage I have pumpkins, spaghetti squash, pinto beans, sweet potatoes and white potatoes. The best part of all of it is that I know where it all came from and what's in it.
