My precious Uma the goat had triplets this week, plus another granddaughter and great granddaughter. And the cattle that are fat and happy, the pigs are still romping around the woods and the chickens are spreading out hay and compost.
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Four more goat kids (all bucklings!) joined the farm this week, we reached 11 hours of daylight and the hens are picking up their laying and the pigs and the cattle are crisscrossing the farm, working in tandem to help create silvopasture in our woods.
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The demand for eggs is as high as ever as Avian flu continues to disrupt the poultry industry. We had to do another price increase on eggs, but we’re fortunate to not be directly affected by the virus at this time. Plus, another round of goat kidding began, the pigs are continuing their cogon grass eradication and silvopasture creation and the winter forage is taking off in growth after the snow!
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A near blizzard in Southeast Louisiana. Can you believe it? Even after expecting it and living through it, we sort of can’t believe it still! All the farm animals and water lines and even cool season cover crops made out fine, though.
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While all of our does are doing a great job taking care of their kids, there’s sometimes milk supply issues beyond their control that we jump in to help with. Plus the pigs having been loving the cold snaps, the cattle are finding all the frosty cool season forage and bale grazing around the farm and the chickens are declining their egg production in the shortest days of the year.
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We’re so grateful that weather and rainfall this year have led to a much better hay and winter grazing situation for the cattle, plus the pigs are busy making piglets and tilling in some coffee grounds and hay, the goats are cozy in their hoophouse and the chickens are officially molting.
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With storms coming, we had a big goat rearranging and moving project this weekend to get the doe/kid herd back into the hoophouse barn. Plus given the low daylight, egg production is dropping even more and with all the down trees and limbs in the paddocks with the pigs, they are getting very athletic leaping over them!
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We had a sad situation that resulted in an orphaned goat kid this week, but she did make a lot of customers smile at the shop that day and now she’s on to live her best life as a pampered bottle kid at another farm. Plus we’re breeding for spring piglets, the cattle are bale grazing and some new flags came in very handy for “herding” some wayward chickens.
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The goat kids are at quite possibly their cutest, bounciest stage and they’re all doing amazingly well. Plus their moms and the pigs are still feasting on donated pumpkins, the cattle are gorging on succulent bean sprouts and one of the chicken flocks is scratching through a bunch of crab shell compost.
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Fall kidding season began with a tricky situation with a tiny doe that mom didn’t really want, there’s cover crop beans sprouting all over the farm and pumpkin fest continues!
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The annual pumpkin fest is upon us, so the goats and pigs got the first round of Halloween pumpkins this weekend! Plus we finally got some goat sorting and rearranging done and we had a surprise heavy rain event that helped with the drought situation.
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Last week was a big deal for us personally as we finally moved over from our tiny house to our new farmhouse on the other side of the farm. Thank you so much for helping us get to this point!
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As the rain from September’s hurricane completely dries up and we haven’t had rain since, we’re moving back into a drought this fall and making adjustments to try to eek out as much pasture growth and forage as we can.
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The goats are doing brush cleanup as usual, the cattle and hens are marching through their pasture rotations, the pigs are getting cozy with the temperature drops and more and more beautiful fall foliage is popping up, even if it's flowers and holly berries instead of changing leaves!
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Signs of fall are all around, most colorfully in the goldenrod, swamp sunflowers and wild asters blooming. One thing is certain, too: It's a much greener fall than last year since we're not facing an epic drought. And that means more forage for all the livestock and a longer grazing season.
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Our focus the last few weeks has been on all the final projects on our farmhouse build, but the show must go on with the farm and the livestock and their needs, too! It is a lovely time of year for the animals on the farm with plenty of forage, acorns starting to fall and temperatures finally starting to drop.
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The goats were all over the farm feasting on brush, branches, saplings and vines and the pigs were treated to a bunch of whole corn and pears from some generous neighbors! Meanwhile the cattle rotated through one of our best fields with all the late warm season grasses, the newest chicken flock is laying like crazy and still learning the ropes and we're still cleaning up a bit after Hurricane Francine.
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Hurricane preparations around the farm paid off and we were spared any serious damage with Hurricane Francine.
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There were some kind of fence breaking shenanigans happening last week with every species of animals on our farm, but the goats win the award for best behavior overall, a rare feat for them!
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Our youngest flock of laying hens are now all out on pasture in their mobile coop! Plus the cattle, goats and pigs are enjoying thick late summer forage on pasture and in the woods.
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