It's been almost a year since I've blogged. I felt like the farm happenings haven't been interesting enough to share with anyone since we've scaled down. I was finding it hard to trailer animals to the butcher, so we sold off some animals and stopped breeding. Well, that couldn't last forever, could it?
I miss the babies. In a weak moment I called a friend and asked if I could borrow his blue eyed fainting goat buck to breed my girls to. Rufus is a shy little guy. The girls like him and he likes them, but I don't know if they've had any action yet. If nothing else, he's very photogenic and makes a good model for painting.
Goat babies aren't the only babies in our future. As of last night we've added 4 Kunekune pigs to our menagerie. Kunekunes are small, very docile, grazing pigs. After boarding some potbellied pigs for friends of ours it made me miss having pigs. When I did a Craigslist search for piglets, I came across the Kunekunes, which I've wanted for several years. They're comical little pigs, with short, upturned noses and squat, round bodies, maturing at about 200lbs. They're quick to roll over for tummy rubs - the perfect pig in my book. It was pouring rain this morning so I didn't get a lot of great pictures. Maybe I'll blog again and post more.
Again, perfect subjects for paintings. I haven't come up with names for them yet. I need to get to know them better.
More to come....maybe.
I miss the babies. In a weak moment I called a friend and asked if I could borrow his blue eyed fainting goat buck to breed my girls to. Rufus is a shy little guy. The girls like him and he likes them, but I don't know if they've had any action yet. If nothing else, he's very photogenic and makes a good model for painting.
More to come....maybe.
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