Beulah

Most of the girls are now expecting, but just to be sure we put Alvin in with them for about the next three to four weeks.  It never hurts to be certain.  When we moved Alvin over with the main herd, I decided to move Bob and Ed out of their bachelor pads and back in with the younger girls, just to give them company.  Well, Ed did fine.  Bob, on the other hand, has proved repeatedly that he can jump the fence whenever he pleases.  I put him in.  He jumps out.  I put him in.  He jumps out.  I put him in………..well, you get the idea.  So, as a reward for his unrelenting efforts, he got to move back into the bachelor pad.  :/

One of the chickens has now taken up residency in the goats barn.  We have named her Beulah and her best friend seems to be Dee Dee.  Attached are some pictures of them “discussing the weather”, just hanging out and then Jynger decided to come over and visit for a spell.

 

    

    

 

.........Oh My

Happy Tuesday!

 

On Sunday morning Chrys and I went out to milk and as seems to be the “normal” at this time of year, the girls were being much less than cooperative.  Chrys had gone out first to bring them into the holding area and when he hadn’t come back in what seemed like forever, I decided that I had better go help.  After chasing about 10 of the girls up and down the fence line (by the boys) forty two times we finally got them into the barn.  Some of the better behaved girls were already in the holding area, as they should be, but glancing up I immediately noticed that something was NOT right!  I could see that “someone”…….and I won’t mention any names, but Chrys did NOT shut the door to the milk parlor tight enough and guess what?!  There were about 30 goats in the milk parlor and they were having a party!!!!!  I ran in there and it was literally wall to wall goats!!!!  There were goats on the milk stand.  There were goats underneath the milk stand.  There were goats all around the milk stand.  There were goats EVERYWHERE!!!!  Chrys came in right behind me and  we managed to get all of them out except the 8 girls that we would milk first.  Once the dust settled, the only logical thing left to do was laugh.  Sometimes that’s all that you can do and these girls certainly do keep us entertained (and busy). 

 



mmmm..........

Using our new Pumpkin Goat Cheese, I took mini filo shells and filled them with Canyon Ridge Farms Pumpkin Goat Cheese and then topped them with whipped topping.  Very simple.  Very pretty.  VERY GOOD!!!

 



Mom used our new Pumpkin Goat Cheese and made this DELICIOUS no bake cheesecake! 

Out Of This World!!!!

 





Goat Dating Service

Well, the Canyon Ridge Farm “Goat Dating Service” is officially in full swing!  Two of the boys, Bob and Ed, have been given their own individual bachelor pads, mainly because it is easier for us to move the girls around than it is the boys (and a person doesn’t get quite as fragrant doing it this way).  Woody and Alvin…….well, we still have to move them around each time we need to, but both of them are very easy to handle.  You know what this means don’t you???  We will be having LOTS of babies in March and April.  That seems like a really long time to wait for babies, BUT what we haven’t told you yet is that our younger group of girls have been in with the boys for some time now and if everything goes as planned then we should start having babies in December.  J  We always love baby time, but I notice our daughters begin to hyperventilate each time we talk about kidding (baby) season since they have pretty much taken over the baby raising.  J

 

A couple of weeks ago, one of our babies from last spring, Carly, became kind of sickly acting.  Our daughters told her that since she was such a pain to get to take a bottle when she was a baby that there was no way that they were going to let her die.  They started her on antibiotics AND put her back on a bottle twice a day to make sure that she was getting plenty of nourishment.  Well, Carly had absolutely no problem taking a bottle again and she seems to be doing pretty good at this point……..except that she EXPECTS a bottle every time that she sees someone now.  LOL