2010 Breeding Season

The 2010 breeding season has officially begun! We put our senior buck, Longman's SA Arousing Cheers, in with the older girls on Saturday. Both Cheers and all of the girls seem quite happy now. :)

Our junior buck, Tecumseh, is a little sad because he is now all alone, but he is not nearly as whiny as I thought that he would be.

Below is a picture of Cheers. I really need to get a good one of him when he is not in rut but for now, this is all I have.

Longman's SA Arousing Cheers

Here is also a picture of Cheers dam and sire.

dam: Longman's Baron's Ariella 11*M

sire: Longman's Serenade's Salute +*B

Jane Doe

This is Jane Doe, affectionately known as Janey.

A week ago, we woke up to find Janey with a broken leg.

The only thing that we could figure is that she got her leg hung up in something. :(

We set her leg in a splint and wrapped it good, then this weekend we took the splint off and then re-wrapped it in vet wrap. It is still quite sore for her, but she is tough and is getting around really well considering.

We have several pretty colors of vet wrap so that as we have to re-wrap Janey's leg she can be the most stylish goat in the paddock. :)

LIVESTOCK GUARDIAN DOGS

Guardians for your livestock are essential. Don't believe me? Check out our Livestock Guardian Dog page on our website at www.canyonridgefarms.com and read our story about the importance of livestock protection on our Livestock Guardian Dog page.

All three of our girls are part Anatolian Shepard and part Great Pyrenees. I truly love this mix.

This is Sadie and her favorite person in the whole entire world. I don't guess I blame her. He is my favorite person in the world too. :)

This is Shasta. This is not a good picture of her because she is an absolutely gorgeous girl and normally doesn't have that silly look on her face. Shasta is the the girl that is almost always right with the goats. The other girls guard perimeters and area but the goats belong to Shasta.

This is Gypsy. Gypsy and Shasta are full sisters and littermates. For some reason Gypsy didn't want to look towards the camera at all when I was taking pictures.



Sadie and Shasta

2010 Doelings

Not much to post today.

We have enjoyed the rain and cooler weather that we have gotten the last couple of days.

Below are just some pictures of the 2010 doelings. These girls will be added to our milk line next year. There are 16 girls in this group.

Relaxing under a tree.

Here are the girls when they saw me come out and I guess they figured they would come up just to see if they could talk me into feeding them ....... "again".

Here is a shot of the young girls playing on the composting hay pile.

This is Latte perched atop the "temporary housing" for the young girls. We are using this trailer as their housing while we are doing construction with the new housing barn and milk barn.

Blessings

I arrived home from work yesterday ready to start putting more screws into the metal on the new housing barn. What a wonderful surprise I had to see that all of the screws on the east side of the barn were already in. I was told that the barn fairies arrived about mid day and took care of that little chore............I LOVE my Daddy! :)

New Housing Barn

It was a very productive weekend! We actually got the metal on the roof and the metal on the side walls of the barn. We still have to completely secure all of the metal, put the ridge cap on the roof and put metal up on the gable ends but after "all" of that all we have to do is trim it out and build the sliding doors (3 of them), OH and bring in more fill dirt......and then it is done! :)

View of the inside from the milking parlor.

Kymberly is helping Chrys cut a sheet of metal and it

looks like daddy is watching the goats again. This is a view of the east side of the new housing barn.

You can see on the fright where it attaches to the holding area of the milk barn.

Another view of the east side of the barn and a better view of where
it will attach to the milk barn.
Also notice Sadie (one of the livestock guardian dogs) checking things out.


A shot of the south end.

Another shot of the south end.

That's it for now. More pictures will be posted as soon as we progress on this project.