Well the rain has finally come! We’ve gotten a good couple inches in the past few days, the creek has began to flow again and our hay is growing once again! YAY! If you’re a repeat reader to our blog, you’ve most likely discovered I’m not a fan of the cold/wet weather by any means but it’s of course necessary, especially when trying to make things grow! lol.
We also finished kidding Jan 30. Not completely finished (we still are waiting on Trixie to kid in April), but all of our Nigi does have kidded. We bred them for about 2 weeks apart, but had babies all within about 5 days. It was a pretty exciting week for us to say the least. We’ll also be starting DHIA milk test again in March and have a few does who I’m especially interested to see what their percentages and weights are through this next year. Our kidding season wasn’t too terribly eventful this year, minus one doe’s rather eventful kidding. You can view pictures of all the new kids (and some goats for sale) on our website (www.littledipperfarms.com).
Speaking of websites! Our new website is finally up. You’ve probably already checked it out if you’re on our blog! Our old host was AWFUL. Even as premium subscribers (who they claim to take very good care of), it took over a week for them to get back to us (they claim they’ll respond within 24 hrs) after discovering our site builder was down, and they have NO live help. Awful. Ugh. Their site builder was also a 3rd party app. so it took forever to correct the problem and even now, it isnt completely resolved. Anyway, we switched to GoDaddy.com. Its a bit more advanced technology wise, but oh so worth it. I can call and speak to a real person if I have a problem also! lol.
Nothing else around here has changed much. We have to move the horses and arena back to the other side of the property for convenience and for my sanity after the hay is cut this year. That’ll be painstaking but worth it in the end. We also got some chickens! Finally! However, these chickens will not be exiting the chicken coup any time soon. I felt bad for them the other day, not being free range and all, and let them out only to discover they drove me crazy, got into everything, and chased any animal smaller than they are. Back into the coop they went! We now have an over-abundance of eggs and something to eat our bad milk and molded grain.
More postings soon!
Off to finish the rest of my chores!
