Farmer Life 168

In the truck on the way home!  We crossed several state lines to get this boy.  First a quick lesson for the less than goat savvy people.  Our does are Boer crosses.  Our new buck Crocket is a Myotonic Goat (Tennessee Fainting Goat, Tennessee Meat Goat (TM), etc, they have many names).  When you cross a Myotonic with a Boer you get the TexMaster (TM).  The Myotonic is well known for being a heavily muscled breed.  When breed to a Boer, you get a bigger framed, faster growing, heavily muscled goat.  Myotonics have a hereditary condition called myotonia congenita which causes the muscles to stiffen briefly when the animal is startled and can cause them to fall over, hence why they are called fainting goats.  They don't really faint though.  They are conscious the whole time and it is painless.  Well, I tried to keep it brief.  Just introducing you to the breed if you are unfamiliar. This is an example (not mine) of a TexMaster (T...

Hubby built a cute shelter for the doelings out of pallets and tin.  They will eventually have a nice barn, but even then this will probably stay because they already love playing on it.  He designed it specifically to provide shelter and a play platform.  He sat it on top of some other pallets so they can get off the wet ground.  A lot of people don't know, but goats hate getting wet! Garnet is so funny.  She stood up on the fence to eat some leaves sticking through, but after she finished eating it she stayed there chewing her cud.  Silly girl!  Caught a picture of Pearl's acrobatics lol.  Hubby forgot his hammer.  Topaz was fascinated. Sorry the pictures are through the fence.  I took these during a break in the rain.  It's been raining all week, every day.  Heck it's been raining for months.  It's so weird!!!  Normally at this time of year we're on month two of no rain at all.  One of my favorite things about...

 Emi pouncing on something.  Emerald is looking so much better.  She's not skinny anymore.  She is the sweetest cat and has totally decided that this is home, which makes me happy.  :D My Pharaoh giving his signature look lol. Miss Smokey, or ShadowCat as hubby calls her. Now the goats.  Jasper is a good looking baby.   My pretty girls are getting a lot more confident.  They come running for feed and follow us around now.  That's such a huge improvement from running in blind fear.    Garnet and Pearl.  Garnet in the front with Topaz and Jade in the back.  Garnet in the front, then Pearl and Topaz.  Garnet, Pearl and Jade.  Beautiful Topaz.   Garnet and Topaz are the most confident ones.  Gorgeous Pearl.  Goat yoga hehe.  Garnet has such a gorgeous face.  I love her markings.  Pearl is still so chunky.  She's getting more and more confident each day.  Jade is still the ...

Wow I'm so late posting this.  Things have been crazy and not really in a good way right now.  My slipped disc in my neck is flaring up again.  It was so bad I almost went home from work, but a few days later it's doing better....  I'm so frustrated.  I knew this would be a problem my whole life, but I didn't know it would be this frequent.  :(  There's other stuff, but I'm not going to whine right now.  This too shall pass lol.   I didn't get much reading done in July.  Only three books. Amazon Link If this tells you anything I couldn't even remember what this was about when I was getting this blog post together... I had to go back and look at it to remember.  It was a decent book, just not memorable I guess. Amazon Link I LOVE this series! With series in general, but especially mystery series, I always worry that by this point they are going to get stale or repetitive, but not this series! The author manages to keep it so interest...