04/01/2013

New projects will be under way soon.  Today, he brought home all the parts to build a "plant rail" along the front porch.  We ordered some 10" hanging baskets yesterday for this same project.  The rail will hold hanging baskets full of both flowers and vegetables.  Photos will be posted as the project gets underway.  He also got some more seeds for plant starts in the greenhouse and some for the hanging baskets also.

In the meantime, he took 7 goats to the livestock auction about 10 days ago.  He also sold a nice little Nubian doe kid a few days ago.  We do have a few little doe kids left, but he's only keeping one.  She is a little red Nubian doe kid with silver spots that he has been calling Frosty.  Then we're keeping the buck, along with Moon (who should be pregnant now), and of course we have the werther out there to keep the buck company.  He came home from the swap meet Saturday with two pair of BB Red bantams also.  He's going to get rid of a half dozen of our bigger Rhode Island Red laying hens and maybe one of the roosters, and we'll keep the banties instead.  Banty chickens forage for themselves better than full-sized chickens do.

The fat hog will be on it's way to the processing plant some time Wednesday.  This will probably be the least amount of livestock we've had for quite some time.