Finished Loafing Shed

We're finally done with the loafing shed.  Thanks to my dad we were able to get it done pretty fast :)

Here are the last of the pics.

FINISHED!!

Ahhhh....makes for a nice kidding barn ;)

And the girls seem to enjoy it!

That's all for now

Have a goodnight!

Part 2 of Building a Loafing Shed

I have to catch up on the building process of the loafing shed.

Yesterday, we finally got the roof on and made a doorway for the milk barn.

 

 

 The roof is on, YAY!

I'll try to keep ya posted

Pics

Thought I'd do a quick post of some pics of our flock.  Enjoy ;)

Crested duck

 Black Muscovy drake

 Our Winedots are at laying age now

 A few of the ducks are finally laying and sitting

~Arael

Goats

In November we added 4 Nubian does to our herd.  Here are pics of them and some of our other goats.

Rosie

 

Milkshake

Milkshake's baby - Elie May

Rosie's baby - Lu Lu

And the three "earless" four legged wonders

Frosty

 Goodnight!

~Arael

Guinea Hogs

In October, we traded a stud fee from our Lamancha buck for two Guinea Hogs.  We've had them for about 2 1/2 months, and they've grown a LOT!  We made sure that we got them unrelated, so that way, we can have piglets in mid-summer.

 

The female-Jolly

The male-Rancher

~Arael

Part 1 of building a Loafing Shed

Sorry for not posting more often...it's been pretty busy :)
Anyway, what we've been doing is building a 12 x 16 loafing shed right beside of the milk barn, so that this winter we can put the momma's in that are due (which is about 15) so that the babies will be warm when they're born.
So the first step is leveling out the dirt so that the rain water won't run under and make it all soggy in there.  Thanks to my dad we got all of the leveling done in one day ;)  (see pics below)

 Oh yes, and remove any stumps or rocks that are in the way.

 The gray poles that are in the ground are going to be the edge of the loafing shed.

 And yesterday we dug three holes for the posts, YAY!

I'll try to post more updates on it

~Arael

Finally...a post :)

Sorry for the delayed post...it was a trojan horse on Blogger's side.  So, it's finally time to catch up on the past few months ;)  The doe's heat cycles are all whacked out this year for some reason...I'm thinking it's this hot summer that made them geek.  So we're just letting all of the does that need to be bred run with the buck for a few days.  I guess we'll find out if it worked in 5 months :)

I turned fifteen last month and my sisters got a doeling for my birthday...she's so CUTE!

 And the kittens are growing very fast!  They're already 10 weeks old!!

Piere

Mocha

Daisy

that's all for today!