Saturday, April 5, 2008

Whats' happening on the farm

Belle had 2 kids today, a buck and a doe kid. The buck is a creamy white with long legsn and the doe is alot smaller brown with short black socks. They both have long thin ears and seem to be doing ok. I will weight them tomorrow. I am going to change their feed slowly mixing in the new feed with the old. custom mix, mixed for my feed store 13% protein and I will add the shredded beet pulp and sunflower seeds and corn gluten. It has raind on and off all day at times very hard, the barn area is a muddy mess I slipped and fell in the mud getting faith out of the chicken coop were she doesn't belong and breaks into when ever I forget to tie the string at the bottom to keep her out she'd rather eat laying pellets than her own feed go figure. I have 5 more does to kid one is due any time and the others are due in May and June. Rought year for getting them bred i waited to have kids for march and april but they just didn't take and to re breed.Hopefully i'll get more does I am 3 doe kids and 3 buck kids right now.
Had about 2 hours to throw some bowls the first one didn't go well and I turned it into a closed container to make into a hinged pot or an oil lamp. The second try I was able to make a cassarole it looked a little rough, I'll see how it looks on tuesday. Since I didn''t have much time the other pieces from yesterday were way to wet to trim and 2 hours isn't near enough for them to be dry enough to trim so I wrapped them back up and will have to trim another day.

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