Well the big news this week kiddies, is I am weining the kids. A very difficult process with goats since they are smart AND presistant. I tried penning them seperately from the mamas, they managed to find a way out within three hours and nearly destroyed a fence in doing so. So I resulted to teat tape. Basically medical taping up there teats so the kids can't get at them. This method is about presistance on my part. It is not perferct. Usually one of the kids manages to get one teat uncovered. but they are trying less and less I am hoping in a couple of weeks they will have quit altogether.
But we are now enjoying ALOT of milk and I mean ALOT. We are averaging about two and half gallons a day. If I am here all day I can easily drink half a gallon by myself. I love milk. I use it to "top me off" at meals and it makes food go alot farther. But even as much as I drink we cannot put down that much milk. So cheese production is starting up now.
My chores have lengthend by a good half hour and my wife now has to dedicate several hours, a couple days a week to trun the surplus milk that builds up in the refridgerator into cheese. So that part is not so fun.
I have been haullling a lot of mulch home to fill in the garden paths to try and combat the weeks better this year. I have hauled about five loads in my new/old little ranger and it is looking like another two before I am done. But all in all it has been a very good week I am dog tired but things are getting done around here, and it is feeling like a true homestead.
as I say, work on a farm is never done! Spring and harvest are the worst and the best. Take some time to enjoy the bounty that you and the wife are creating!
Herbalpagan05:21 AM CST