Category: Pygmy Goats
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Winter garden is taking off, Fruiting vines, Goats, and Golden Rod
The lettuce is beautiful and we will enjoy some of this lettuce tonight. We can either harvest the ouside leaves or just cut the top out of each lettuce plants. Either way, the leaves will grow back and we will have an abundant crop until the first hard freeze. You can also see a row…
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Hay Crib for the Goats, Deer, Lake at Norwood, Gingerbread and Family pictures.
The goats tend to waste the hay and they will not eat hay once it hits the ground. A compressed bale of hay and alfalfa grass now costs $25 and lasts about a week with our 8 goats. We finally purchased a hay cradle from Tractor Supply. It didn’t take our brilliant goats anytime to…
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Goat Mischief, baby raccoon, melon vines, and night vision pictures
Fool is our only male kid and he is definitely the most active and curious of all the goats. It was Fool who was tangled in the fence a few months ago and it is Fool who managed to get tangled in the hay bail plastic. Luckily, he was rescued quickly. We knew something was…
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Fishing, Cotton, Swimming Mice, Ducks, and Heron
Today was a two fish day, so we headed to Faraday. The pond was beautiful in the early morning. Bruce caught a 4.3 pound bass on a purple worm. Since nothing seemed to be biting after the first hour, Bruce trimmed trees instead. Just below Natchez Mississippi, we were able to get pictures of this…
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Pear Blossoms, Pygmy goats love hay
The pear tree is blossoming. This tree may be confused because pears are supposed to lose their leaves in the winter and blossom in the spring with fruit developing in the summer to early winter. With the hot summer and drought, there is no telling what to expect. Our goats love hay. This is a…
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Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain
Tsunami loves to climb. This talent came in handy in avoiding wet feet yesterday. Yesterday, the farm received the blessing of an “all day rain”. The plants definitely appreciated the slow rain and the animals will appreciate the the rejuvenated plants. The garlic we planted has sprouted. It will be a long time before garlic…
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Beautiful Weeds, Visitors (wanted and unwanted), Deer, Turkey, Family Pictures!
The white flowers below are known as Late boneset, a species of Bonesets (Eupatorium). Other names are Lateflowering thoroughwort, Fall Boneset, and Late eupatorium. This plant is classified as a weed. The plant type is HERB (although I am yet to find a use for it, other than it may help our bees since it…
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What is a proboscis in insects? Zinnias, Water leak, goats, and family pictures.
Science Tip: Proboscis: Think of a straw! In certain insects, a proboscis is a mouthpart that is tubular and flexible used for feeding and sucking. Moths, butterflies, and mosquitoes all have proboscis. In the picture below, the butterfly’s proboscis is bent at a right angle just below its antennae. Look at the video below. The…
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Trail Camera Pictures with turkeys, deer, white heron, hogs, and fawn. Also wasp, goats, and family.
Trail Camera Pictures- Turkeys, hogs, deer, and a fawn. Video Below: Buck, coyote, fox, and fawn. Slides Below: A Metric Paper Wasp is on the basil. This wasp will share its nest with similar species and will reuse its own nest. This wasp prefers to feed it larvae soft bodied insects like caterpillars. The other…
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Watermelon, Tsunami, Night Vision, Caterpillars, and Family
Our second watermelon patch has fruit! This watermelon is a different variety than the melons we harvested in August. The melon will have to get a little larger for us to determine the variety. Guess who looks fine today? Tsunami is no longer limping. BELOW: Night Vision binocular pictures of 1. Two deer in the…