Bringing home babies. Baby Goats

Babies, babies, and more babies... Baby goats..

There is nothing more fun on a family farm than a baby goat. A baby goat is cute, sweet, friendly and playful

Baby goats are called kids, the same word your parents may use to describe you and your siblings! Mother goats are nannies. Fathers are called billy goats.

.In this post I want to share pictures and stories of my new babies

I loved my baby goats and their mommas and they loved me. I was allowed to pet them and they loved giving kisses.

Wee-Man is one of the bucks I bottle fed. His mom and him went through an auction and the buyer did not want him and I have a soft heart for the orphans.I only bottle feed the orphans. I don't mind the mommas raising their babies.


                                                                                                                                                                      

This Toby. He was also an orphan saved from an auction. When I get them, they are usually 2 days old. It is very important to get them on the bottle right away. This is how the bond with me. Their maaas sounds like they are hollering mam ma.

I have found that regular baby bottles work just fine for bottle feeding and they are much cheaper.

I have had to feed up to 4 at a time and that is a real chore. And it was not fun in the dead of winter.
As spring arrives the babies begin eating grass and feed and less of the bottle.






Here was a complete surprise one winter morning. One of my pygmy
goats had triplets. Oh how cute they are and healthy.

Tripplets are tricky to raise because some times the momma can,t fee thm all and one gets left out. That was the result for one of these and I was sad because I did not catch it till it was too late. Next time I will pull one after a few days and put it on the bottle.
It really happens with the pygmy goats because the are small and don't produce much milk.
 The bottom right picture is mamma and all three babies enjoying a day out.

 

 

 

Below is Possum, our guard dog. She is a Great Pyrenees and she may seam like she is sleeping on the job, but just before sunset you can watch her jump up and go to the four corners of the property barking to let any predator know she's on duty. She stays up all night and she is not afraid of any thing. I watched her chase a few coyotes off.

 

Thanksgiving on the farm.

Unlike many years ago, we get our turkeys from a store.  My grandmother raised turkeys and they can be mean so I decided raising them were not for me.
So in this post, I am gonna share my favorite classic recipes and cool ways to decorate for the holiday.
I am gonna start with one that is easy yet taste sooo good. Candied Yams "This is a simple and quick way to enjoy a Thanksgiving favorite! Canned yams or sweet potatoes may be used."

1 (29 ounce) can sweet potatoes
1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cup miniature marshmallows

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. Place sweet potatoes in a medium baking dish. Distribute butter pieces evenly over the sweet potatoes. Sprinkle with brown sugar. Layer with miniature marshmallows.
3. Bake in the preheated oven 25 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are tender and marshmallows have melted.

Another recipe is the easy Beginner's Turkey with Stuffing

12 pounds whole turkey

1 (6 ounce) package dry bread stuffing mix
1 cup water
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped onion
4 slices toasted white bread, torn into small pieces
   salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoonsvegetable oil

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Rinse turkey, remove giblets and place in a shallow roasting pan.
2. Prepare stuffing according to package directions. Mix in water.
3. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat, and slowly cook and stir the celery and onion until tender.
4. Mix celery, onion, and toasted bread pieces into the stuffing, and season with salt and pepper. Loosely scoop stuffing into the turkey body cavity and neck cavity. Rub the exterior of the turkey with vegetable oil.
5. Loosely cover turkey with aluminum foil, and roast 3 1/2 to 4 hours in the preheated oven, until the thickest part of the thigh reaches 180 degrees F (85 degrees C) and the interior of the stuffing reaches 165 degrees F (70 degrees C). Remove foil during the last half hour of cooking to brown the bird.

This craft was found on FaveCrafts and just looked lovely on my table last year. I plan to make anouther this year.

This lovely centerpiece from Krylon is sure to be admired by friends and family at Thanksgiving dinner. Find this craft project and 29 other decorations, table accents and more in the Thanksgiving Crafts eBook.


Materials:

• Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Paint - Bauhaus Gold (#51801)
• Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Paint - Georgia Clay (#53531)
• Krylon Glitter Spray - Glistening Gold (#401)
• Krylon Easy-Tack™ Repositionable Adhesive - Clear (#7020)
• Krylon Short Cuts® Aerosol Paints - Gold Leaf (#SCS029)
• Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Primer - Gray (#51318)
• 1 trailing silk ivy plant
• 18" artificial pine wreath
• 6" clay pot
• 6" × 6" green candle
• 9" diameter metal candle saucer
• 1 or 2 wired stems with berries
• 1 orange maple leaf garland
• Oak leaf picks – 2 yellow & 1 multicolor
• 24 yellow and orange fall flowers
• (2) 9" × 12" sheets .005 acetate
• Crafty Magic Melt® glue sticks
• Glue gun with needle nozzle
• Small wire cutters
• Fine line permanent marker
• Craft knife
• Self healing mat

Instructions:

1. Shape wreath into oval, measuring approximately 14" × 9" by squeezing wire form.
   
2. Trace oak leaf and maple leaf on sheets of acetate. Cut out. Apply Easy–Tack to back of stencils. Let set for 5 minutes.
   
3. Stencil candle with Gold leaves. Let paint dry 30 minutes before removing and relocating stencil. Use tip of craft knife to scratch veins in leaves. Set aside.
   
4. Spray clay pot with Gray Primer. Let dry. Spray with Bauhaus Gold and Georgia Clay for a mottled finish. Let dry. Spray candle saucer Gold. Let dry. Turn clay pot upside down and glue candle saucer to top. Set aside.
   
5. Spray wreath lightly with Bauhaus Gold and Georgia Clay, leaving some green areas. Let dry. Set aside.
   
6. Lightly mist flowers and leaves with Gold Leaf paint. Spray all flowers and multicolor oak leaves with Glistening Gold Glitter. Let dry.
   
7. Assemble centerpiece: Place candle on upturned pot in center of wreath. With wire cutters, cut: (2) 16", (4) 12", (2) 6" and (4) 4" lengths of ivy; cut flower stems to 4" to 6" lengths, maple leaves with stems from garland, and oak leaves from picks. Arrange ivy with longer lengths at ends of wreath and shorter lengths along sides. Arrange flowers, berries and leaves on wreath. Refer to photograph for suggested placement. When satisfied with arrangement, glue all elements to wreath.

This is it for this post. I post more reciepes before Thanksgiving.



 

Living the Farm Life

    Living a life on a farm has many rewards. Before me and my 2 children moved to the farm in Indianola, OK, we suffered from allergies and sinus. After a time we became custom to the hay and pollen, which is different than the grass and dust you get in town. We did suffer from the Poison Ivy that seam to grow every where.

    I spent 75 percent of my day outside. Feeding the chickens, goats, and horses was great therapy for me.





 Miss Hen was one of my favorite hens. A very faithful layer. She would follow me every I went and some times allowed me to pick her up and carry her.

I had to keep her separate for the other hers and the rooster because they were so mean to her.








More Pictures of my chickens. I plan to upload more in future posts.

Moving to the Farm.

    When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of someday living on my grandparents farm. I spent nearly every weekend, all holidays, and all summer there. I had envy for my cousins who did live there. 30 plus years later and I was turning the door knob and moving in. My grandpa has been gone for a while now and my grandmother now lives with my parents. She has had several strokes and is now in bed.

    The house was built in the 50's and even though it is a three bedroom, it is very small. Behind the house is twenty acres with a continuous flowing creek. My Uncle Buck was running a few cows on the pasture grass, but that all changed when I brought home a horse.

    Missy , the mare in the photo, is the first of many farm animals I had not planned on adopting. The foal is a filly and not very friendly.

    I adopted several more after her.

Next, on the long list of animals I fell in love with, were goats. I incorporated Nubians, Boers, and Pygmys.

Even a Bull. All bottle feb.

This is the begining of my little farm.