Well we have new animals!! LOL Like we need anymore but we have to have a few more to complete the menagerie! So we now have rabbits... New Zealand and California crosses for meat. They are HUGE especially compared to my Youngest DD's little hotot dwarf!! LOL This is one of the Does. She is a 3 yr old a little old but still young enough to raise a few litters. They dont have names yet. They lack a lot of personality so kind of hard to name them!! Tehy all basically look like her....
Now On to the new pig... He is young he wont be 8 weeks till Wednesday. He is a little crabby too! LOL But he was taken from momma! He is fussing and growling at us. But he is cute!!! He will be used to breed the red wattle/Tamworth cross we have already.
Next is the lamb I couldn't resist putting new pictures up. He likes to be held just not caught.LOL momma is still not real sure of us but does tolerate us holding baby boy.. That's him at the top too..
We are butchering chickens Monday! Yeah!! LOL It will be so fun!! hmmm maybe I should add pics of how we butcher.. We don't currently pluck just skin and use them like that. Anyways that's all I have for now.. Have a good weekend all..
It is Simply life....... No luck on finding the baby.. It has been all day long and we have even drove down in the fields looking for him and we haven't found anything... All of our fence isnt secure as we want but we do have 2 LGD's and the pasture they were in was pretty good and almost done. Its almost like someone reached over the fence and grabbed him!! We do have a neighbor I dont trust but I dont think he would waste his time on a little lamb.... We have had problems with the neighbors dog but since we got the LGDs he has stayed on his side of the road mostly. The pic is of the one that is left...
It is Simply life.......
Doesn't she look like a giant teddy bear!?!?! This is Dinah in one of her napping spots for the day. They are doing a good job guarding the place but they do need some help especially when everyone has babies!!! 
It is Simply life.......
I am back on the site. So much has changed in our life since I had closed my blog... Well I am opening it up again. I am no longer on Dial up! YEAH!! We have also moved. We are managing a farm that is Certified Naturally Grown. We are raising Milk and meat goats, hair sheep,Dexter cattle, Red Wattle cross hogs, Chickens and Muscovy ducks. We also have some LGD"s that are Komondor/Anatolian cross. They have worked out great. We are closer to town and so not so much gas is being used. I am going to try milking one of the dexter's along with the goats. She has a halter on and will lead some. She is very food oriented! LOL
SO I will start with 5am this morning... I was woke up to go deer hunting this morning and as I do every morning when I get up I look out to make sure everything looks okay with the animals... well it wasn't okay!! My aunt who lives around the corner has 2 Great Pyrenees that are about a year old.
Well they were in my goat pen with the goats and horse rounded up! They wouldn't let them move. All my girls are pregnant too about 3 months now.. I had ran the dogs off about 10:30 last night and didn't think anything else about it. SO I go out and lock the goats back up. Kyle and I chase them off and thought they had headed back home. But NO we go out at about 6am and they are out behind the pens in the field and they follow us barking at us!! So it is scaring the girls and aggravating my husband. I go back to the house to call my aunt and Kyle and the girls head out to the woods.. Well the dogs follow them out to the woods. So they pretty much ruined the hunting for this morning. My uncle comes to get them and in the mean time they run to my parents and chase the horses.... I hope this does not become a habit!! I will not tolerate it. So after they were finally gone we tried to hunt but we were pretty much wore out! 
We came back to the house and rested for awhile. Then went out and worked on the chicken house! YEAH!!! It is now snug and tight! All it needs is some paint on the outside and tin added to roof to get it weather proof. I was so happy about that as we have a chance of snow next week. 
Yikes I am not ready for that!! After they roosted tonight we moved them inside the house. I think we will have to do that for a few nights to get them to start roosting in there. Its not huge but it is good enough! My hubby did a great job!! I wouldn't have got near as much done as quick as he did!! He is so much better at building things then I am!! It was dark when we finished and I still had supper to fix. But that's okay it was well worth it! I just hope those dogs don't come back!!
I tried something new to use for butter for bread or whatever else. Its probably not anything new to some of you. But you take a pound of butter and a 16 oz bottle of olive oil and blend it together to make your own margarine. 
It is healthier for you and still has the butter taste just not as much.. We will see how well it goes over Thanksgiving!! I am making a big gooey chocolate cake!! Kyle told but me there will be pie..