A Mother's Love

As in the human world there are mother's who do not want their off-springs, as their is in the animal kingdom. Some humans never take care of their children where some animals never do. This is not the case at Sunset Oaks with Mimzy, she is a first time freshener and she has been an excellent mother. From the time Little Betti was born Mimzy became the complete mom,I say mom because she was so patience and understanding to what ever her new baby needed. She raised a beautiful baby, who was well socialized at being a goat but also a gentle and tamed animal that went to a great home. She was touched from the moment she was born so being around humans was just as natural as being around her herd. Mimzy's baby was picked up Saturday,from the moment the car left with Betti in it Mimzy was crying, it was rather heart-breaking, this continued all that afternoon. Evening came and I went to milk Mimzy, she seemed to be okay with the milking part but she would only give me part of her milk. You see animals that are milked learn to hold back some of the milk for their babies,it really is the intelligence that God gave them to do this. I understood that she was going to do this, so I let her finish her food then turned her back out in the pasture. As I sat on the porch she stood at the gate, and cried her little heart out for what I am sure she thought was her lost baby. Also I can connect with her pain as a mother who has an empty nest I am sympathetic to what she is going through. Just as God give them the ability to miss their babies, He makes sure it doesn't last long. By the next day her crying was not as much, and eventually she started being a goat, wandering the pasture, sleeping and even playing with Solomom. Daily I am reminded that God doe exists He proves it too me every single day at Sunset Oaks!!!!

What to save and What to throw away

A new day has begun at Sunset Oaks, and everyday I find myself saving more and more things. I have put my whole heart into this farm I want it to be the best it can be. I have two garden though small they will provide me with the vegetables I need. Since I have all the compost I want from my animals it is senseless not to use it. I find myself every day trying to use everything that I come in contact with. I have started saving my cardboard because it works wonders to keep weeds out also it decomposes so it is a great additive. As I was cleaning my hairbrush out this morning I remember where someone had once told me that human hair will deter snakes in your yard, I am not so much worried about my yard its the hen house. My daughter last year killed two snakes in the nesting boxes,they were chicken snakes but I do not want to see one. I will try not to kill one but if it scares me bad enough I am sure it will be a dead snake. So I am saving all my hair to put in the nesting boxes will see what happens. Then again this morning I am eating oranges and I was going to put the peeling in my coffee can for the compose, then started thinking I can grated the peelings for orange rolls, or my homemade soap, just read the other day it makes get citrus scent. So now I have a baggie started with orange peels, who knew that so many things could be recycled. Then I was reading about all the herbs that could be used in soap, so I had to go buy four herbs, Walmart had them on sale for two dollars a piece, so I figured it could not hurt. Well got to go the farm is waiting to show me what else I might can save.

Just another day at the farm

Living on a farm there is always things that have to be done that is not really much fun at all. To me the worse thing is the dis-budding of a goat kid, but when we started the farm we decided it was the best in the long run for the babies. Since we are trying to raise the best Nigerian Dwarf goats that we can. Our main goal is good milkers well not good the best that they can be. Also for show, and in the show ring they are not allowed horns, especially dairy goat. Well I am the one in charge so I have to be the one to do it, My son is in the Marine Corps, and he is stationed in Hawaii serving our country. So I have read all the things I could and watched so many video until all that was left for the me was to get the job done. About 3 weeks ago I did it, but I did not get enough of the horn bud, so of course I knew I was going to have to repeat the ugly process. So this morning I got down on my knees and prayed to Jesus to give me the strength to do this, at least just help me stop shaking. I did it, with steady hands but my heart was about to break but I know this time I did it right. As long as I am raising goat this will be the only drawback to it Because these creatures are the best.