Our fall sheep and goat maintenance has been completed which involves checking body condition, looking at coat/fleece status, assessing inner eyelid color, giving copper supplements and trimming hooves. In addition our barn bedding was removed and replaced. This is all in anticipation of the annual veterinary flock evaluation which happened yesterday. Our vet looks over our animals and addresses specific issues. This year he looked at our new alpaca. He thought he was a little thin, but his teeth were OK. He just suggested an alpaca supplement and following his condition and coat. He also worked on our two donkeys teeth.
Both of our donkeys have awful teeth. He sedated them for this so they were woozy afterwards and had to be kept safe in the barn until it wore off.
The animals are now all moved to their winter quarters with the younger sheep and goats in the front half of the barn and the older sheep and goat in the back. The cattle are in the near back field. Plus we have started to feed them all hay. It is later than usual starting the cattle hay which is nice. Tom plans on building them a covered hay feeder soon.
Turkey sex has begun.
And there are interesting mushrooms everywhere. This one is growing on a creosote post so we need to make sure nobody eats eat. But it is pretty.
And these ones look like fallen leaves.
We did stay up Tuesday and watch the election results come in. I wore my Cat Ladies for Kamala shirt and drank a blue cocktail. Despite this, my presidential candidate didn’t win. But it seemed to be a fair election (except for the bomb threats) and likely will be a peaceful transition of power. I do feel bewildered and scared though.
We did resort to comfort food for dinner last night. I made Martha Jefferson’s Chicken Pudding using two of our chickens, our eggs, our fresh parsley, and milk leftover from the grandkids’ visit. It came out really nice and tasty. I read about Martha Jefferson while eating it and wondered what her and her husband would think about current events.
Very interesting! I enjoyed reading it all. Your food looks good!
I always forget that you have a goat. You don’t write much about him/her.
I hope you won’t continue to have the flooding mentioned earlier. That could get really old in a hurry!
I’m always excited to see the great blue herons, too. They are just awesome. We don’t have them right here, but do see them near Lowell, and also along I-5, north of Eugene.
I am glad that you still enjoy reading it. We have 3 goats left. We had quite a few before, and I was milking them, but we have downsized for a while now. We just have two Nigerian Dwarf and one Nigerian-Angora cross (Nigora) goats. It has been raining quite a bit here, and we haven’t flooded. So I think the beavers have moved on. The herons are always so dramatic. I took photos of one yesterday on the hay barn that I will post. They always impress me.