.....PROGRESS.....

It's been a few days since I have posted.

I was off work (from my day job) most of last week. This afforded some daytime hours to be working on the milk barn and creamery. There wasn't that much visual progress, but I was sure busy all week. I did get a trench dug from the end of the new creamery to the South end of the milk barn for our drains (sure hope they are deep enough). It was hard work because every bit had to be dug by hand but Megan and Peyton helped so that made it better. Below are pictures of Peyton helping. :)

Kymberly cleaned out the milk parlor and milk room. With all of the construction going on this is an endless job. She also went around adding more screws to the interior and exterior walls of the milk barn.

Yesterday was a looong day to Oklahoma City. Very very tired by the time we got home but this morning........it proved to be well worth the trip. More on this to come later..... :)

Creamery Construction

Below are a couple of pictures of the new creamery while in construction.

You can see where it will attach to the current milk barn.

This is a 16x32 structure.

Below are pictures of the drainage pipes in the creamery prior to the slab floor being poured.

More pictures to come as I get time to post.

Productive Day

This turned out to be a fairly productive day. I got the pump room cleaned out and threw out and burned a lot of stuff that was just taking up space. Once that was done I went to work on cleaning stuff out of the milk barn. Sounds fairly easy? Well, not only were all of the milking supplies and misc. stuff needed for the goats in there, but all of the tools and misc. supplies that we have been using for the construction projects were in there as well. I left most of the construction supplies and tools since we are not done with the projects yet, but most everything else has been moved out and stored in the pump room.

Put the little girls out on the front pasture today since I was home and could keep an eye on them. Also put Tecumseh out in the little girls pasture while they were out front. He didn't seem as impressed as I thought he would be, but we did get to spend some one on one time today and that is always a good thing. :)

More Barn Remodel

These are pictures of the "old" barn and milk parlor prior to construction.

This view is from the north end with housing on either side and the milk parlor and milk room in the middle.

The new housing barn is on the south end (you can see a "hint" of the roof sticking out above the old barn).

The new processing facility will be on the north end of the milk barn and will be a 16x32 structure.

The "old" barn will continue to be the milk parlor and milk room in the middle with a feed room and holding area on the east side and a storage room and mechanical area along with the exit area on the west side.

We will post more pictures and information as everything pulls together.

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