This is our oldest using a stick to make the riding lawnmower work for him. He was hauling some cinder blocks from the backyard to the goat pen. He's a great helper!
These are our new baby goats! They are only about 4 weeks old, so they are still bottlefeeding 2X's a day, but they are so much fun! When we picked them up they were a little uneasy around us, but now they just love us, and are pretty sure the little kids are part of their "herd". The mostly white one is Cream and the brown one is Sugar. We were initially wanting to make sure that the goats we bought were disbudded, but this ended up not happening. We are feeding them whole cows milk, which is what the breeder bottle feeds her goats, but the hilarious thing is that Sugar refuses to drink the milk from the bottle unless we add SUGAR! This is NOT why we named her this! We named her before making this discovery! Talk about living up to your name! The first day we had them, we put them in the back yard. They jumped the 4' gate in the front and took off. Little Dude walked around for 20 minutes until Daddy came back with them saying, "Bad goats, run away!" Too funny!
Our baby chicks... what a sad story. Never ever ever order day old chicks in the mail in March! They had such a rough shipping that 8 of them died over the first few weeks. They just couldn't fully recover from the trip. As long as we make it with at least a few laying hens, I will never order day old chicks again!!!! The 17 that made it are getting big, and are all super healthy, but we are all super sad that so many of them didn't make it! They are all starting to get "real" feathers, and try to fly out of the box, which is the reason for the plastic netting. Terence is currently sitting next to me planning out our temporary chicken tractor so that they can go OUTSIDE where they belong!!! I have a sneaky suspicion that they are much more hardy than I am giving them credit for, but since so many of them died I'm terrified to lose more! After weeks and weeks of constant chirping, I am so so so ready for them to NOT be in my living room anymore!
We used to raise turkeys and got day olds. We were told the rule of thumb is you will lose half of what you buy. We did via the mail and the feed store and each time we usually did lose about 1/3 to 1/2 of each group. Good luck with your goats and chicks.
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