Transition to Farming

When we moved to Kansas a couple of years ago, we plunked ourselves in the center of a 25-acre parcel and bought some chicks. Now, two years into our dream of rural life we have about 40 chickens, a barn cat, a pair of donkeys who just delivered a little colt, a black angus steer and heifer,  seven Pygora goats, a peacock and three crazy ducks.

The Pygora goats are a lot of fun. they keep us entertained and provide me with the most beautiful fiber to develop my skill at spinning.

We made it through our first sheering by teamwork. Hubby got one side and I got the other. Whoever had their side prepped first - meaning picked free of stickers and vegetable matter - started shearing first. Then we passed the clippers over to the other one and that went on for our first five. We didn't get the other two until after that shearing.

Life is a lot of fun - those goats are pretty smart. They get into everything and they just want to hang out with you whenever you are outside. They are so social and full of energy. I can't help but love them.  Here they are "helping" dad put a hinged cover on their hay feeder. Turns out they like to jump into it and have a tendency to get themselves stuck after eating the "floor" out from under themselves.

My husband is such a good sport. It was -17 with the windchill and he was out there building a lid for the hay feeder... He's a keeper.