Barefoot Hillbilly Wife to a Redneck......

Cold Weather Is Here For sure!!!

It is Simply life....... Today was the first day of deer season.  We all wenbt out and 1 by 1 headed back to Nana's house to warm homemade cinnamon rolls and hot coffee!! LOL its was just to much temptation with the weather. It rained alittle and snowed/sleeted too.  The wind was blowing hard and cold.. All the deer were in hiding and out of sight due to the wind.  So no luck today. Hubby will go back out tomorrow  and he has Monday off too. The hazy look to the pic is the snowy sleet that came down.  We lost 2 silkie hens last night. I had moved the chickens down to the barn and I didnt secure the nesting box enough and the only thing I can figure out is that they all tried to roost  on the fron tand it got top heavy. It smashed them and of course it would be 2 of the hens!! A white one and a black  one. Poor little darlins!!  SInce I have moved them I am getting 15-18 eggs a day. A few cant get it into their little brains that the food and shelter is now in the barn... lol They keep heading back up and roosting on the corral fence. I hope they are at least laying their eggs in the barn!!

 I have a goat getting close to baby time. She has an udder and has mucous on her back end. The big thing is her ligaments are loosening and getting squishy.  Her name is Ethel and she gave me twins on her first kidding. A beautiful little girl we named Splashy and I wish we had kept and she had a twin brother named Shrimp. She was a little young when she had her first babies but she was an excellent momma and recovered very well. She is a Boer/Nubian cross and I just love her spots. Her momma is Dottie in my photos. She is Black with white spots. Ethel has been bred to a Kiko buck and  I cant wait to see what her babies look like.

GOOD TO MEET YOU !

08:22 AM, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 .. Posted by LaVonne54

Hello All in Simple Life !

You know we must not live too far apart.
We had sleet/snow too opening morning of deer season.

You have a very versatile little farm set up. I like it!

We only have around 30 acres. We used to farm poultry big time here... 30,000 laying hens. That was years ago. The building itself is just about completely taken down. My husband was raised up doing poultry. When he was a kid, his parents raised broilers on the floors of large buildings. Then they redesigned them to have cages for 10,000 layers. Then eventually went to a bigger new automated building for 30,000. Time changes and ideas got us where we are today.

I hope we can stay in touch.

BLESSINGS
LaVonne