Settling in

Gus has settled in and finally figured out how to suck. It is amazing watching him. New life is pretty amazing! I have no idea where will put Blessing and Gus though. We can't put them in the large pasture with the horses and the steer so they may have to be alone in the tiny pasture until we get it expanded this spring. It will all work out. They are happy in the barn for now :)

Blessing is driving me crazy!

Blessing, the heifer calf born from our first cow, 2 years ago, is pregnant and we are impatiently waiting for her to calve. She is bordering being late for this delivery and looks like she is going to explode. The anticipation is killing me as this is her first calf and she is a very important pet to me. She was our first birth and now she is giving birth. I am a wreck waiting. I REALLY hope we don't have to pull this calf. We bred her with an angus so it's more than likely larger anyway. Come on Blessing, have this bull calf already. And yes, it better be a bull claf because my husband insists on eating it and I refuse to eat a heifer! :)

Rummagging!!!!

What a day. Busy, busy, busy. I started garage saleing at 8 am and got home at 1pm. I got tons of fun deals. Hey, I even found a pool for the ducks, when they get bigger. :O They will love it! After a brief break at home, we had a little Army wives reunion at one of our army wives houses. The house was loud with laughter and chatter as the woman visited and the children played. It was awesome to see a few of the ladies and to welcome a new one to our little group. I am so lucky to have such great friends.

Overdue update

WOW, it has been so long since I have posted! There has been mcuh going on since I lasted told our story.

Our cow Annabelle gave birth to her calf and died a month later from hardware that moved. We got another cow to replace her. This cow was named Taffy. She was open and we milked her until she started to dry up and than we sold her.

Our two steer are grounded to a wing off of the barn until we finish our new fence and get the electrical up since they won't stay in the pasture. The good news for them is that David almost has the fence done. They'll get a short taste of freeedom before they are butchered yet later this fall.

We had 6 chickens and a rooster but one chicken died this morning so we are down to 5 left. We did get 3 ducklings though, just yesterdady. They are adorable. We plan on raising them for eating but I also hear they give better eggs than chickens. We shall see! :)

We had a goat but that didn't last as the goat was REALLY old and arthritic. He had to be put down. :( We hope to get goats in the spring however, as well as pigs, 2 new steer and some fryer chickens. By the spring it will probably be time for some more laying hens too as ours aren't producing as well due their age we think. We are excited for the spring to start up a whole lot more with this farming stuff. For now, we need to winterize and take care of the apples that are coming out of our ears.

We have found 8 apple trees in all and have been giving apples away to everyone but still have a TON of apples. I am a little frustrated that I don't have a stove to can on so I am not sure what to do with all these apples. My glass top stove wont' work for canning so I am sure I will have to be getting a gas stove here soon so I can eventually get canning again. Until then, we have to take the apples to my grandma's to can and that's no fun.

Anyway, there's a quick update and I promise to update more often again. I have missed it.

Whirlwindnow

It has been crazy around here. There have been so many changes. Let's see, we have a milking cow now. I milk her by hand but we are drying her up right now to have her calf in the

Sir and Little T

So, we had a busy weekend. We went to pick up our two bull calves on Saturday night. We brought them home in crates. It reminded me of Madagascar. LOL Anyway, getting them was easy compared to the work it took to prepare for them. We had to clean the barn, move some hay and put down new straw for them, wash their bottles and their feed bucket. Than we has to get their feed and their milk replacer in rubbermaid containers and fill their feed and water buckets. They were already fed before we got there to pick them up so we had to wait until Sunday morning.

So, Sunday morning was really fun. They are so cute when they butt and kick to get their bottles to work faster. I think we did really well for our first time. It was harder than we thought to get them to take the bottles at first though. Once they got the hang of it they went to town on those bottles though.

The one calf is a few days older and a little bigger. He seems to be more dominate so we named him Sirloin but call him Sir for short. The little one we named T-Bone but call him Little T since he is smaller and more timid. They both have the biggest doe eyes and thick dark lashes.

We love living on our little piece of heaven on earth. God has truly blessed us and we are anticipating His love to pour out on us as we continue to fill our farm with animals. Next are the chickens LOL :) Than we will seriously look for a milking cow. That will be the hardest work so we'll wait until last. LOL

What a weekend!

WOW! I had a fun and interesting weekend. My husband and I were alone for a few days of it so that was extra nice. We went on a few dates, spent some time with some friends, and did some driving around to find a cow.

So, apparently, there is an Amish "Wal-Mart". Yes, our friends took us there on Friday. It is in the middle of no where but it is really fun. We actually found some really cool stuff for very cheap that we needed for our new farm. We found some fence posts, glass blocks, and my favorite, the dinner bell to hang on my front porch.

We drove all over on Saturday and stopped at random houses that looked like they had beef cows to see if they had a calf for sale. Unfortunately, we had no luck but were given some very useful information to help us find a cow. Than we took the girls to the fair on Saturday night and we found a farmer who thinks he can get us a Guernsey milking cow and possibly a beef cow too.

So, we had a good weekend. Now I am waiting for my homemade bread to rise so I can punch it down and let it rise again. I am super excited to see if I can make bread as good as my Amish neighbor brought me the other day. :)