And the barn continues!

Well sadly, I do not have any pictures of the progress and it has been raining pretty constantly so none will be taken right now! We have officially finished setting the 12 posts! Chris was able to get the remaining 6 done in one day! It is hard to believe how large it will be compared to what the goats are in now! It is funny to see the scale of the barn when the goats are walking thru the posts eating the grass! We are both so excited! Can't wait to get started on the next step!

Itty Bitty hatched out two baby Silkies this morning. They are sweet little puff of fur! I hope that they are both hens, but only time will tell for sure. We picked up 6 new hens this past weekend. They are doing well adjusting to their new temporary home. They seem to be getting along thru the fence with Big Red's girls well. Hopefully in the next week they can move in with him. We have collected TWO eggs from the Millies! I am very excited that they have begun laying. I have one under a frizzle and one that will be set ASAP. I am hoping to get some more eggs in the next few days and hatch more Millies. The Frizzle eggs I ordered arrived last week and have been incubating well. So far temp and humidity have been very very stable. I have a box of Turken eggs hopefully arriving today to be set on Friday. The 4 Silkie eggs from Jennifer are developing well and should hatch in the next week and half.

Goats are doing well overall. Aimee and Aiden had a fun visit from their new owners this past weekend. They will be leaving next weekend. It will be sad to see them go, but they will have a wonderful home with lots of love. Aiden was banded last night, so far so good! Aubrey, Archie, Abbi and April are still available for new homes. I have had some nibbles, but nothing serious come thru. The right home will come for them, just need to be patient! Petunia has gotten sick, we are trying to pull her thru. She is on a strong worming regimen as well as Vitamin B12 and Iron. She is holding strong, eating well and mobile. So fingers crossed that she will show improvement in the next day or two!

The garden is doing WONDERFULLY! We have had quite an abundent crop of cherry tomatoes, green beans, zucchini, Okra and pickling cucumbers. All of my spare time has been spent blanching, freezing and pickling. We will have lots of wonderful foods to eat this winter.

Thank you for checking in!

Let the barn building begin!

Yeah! We have finally started our barn! It was a hot hot hot weekend to begin, but its begun! We are looking at a foot print of 24x36, Two story for hay storage. The interior will have a feed storage area, goat medical room, a large goat stall and a nursery. We were able to set 6 of the main posts this weekend. I know its not much, but this is the hardest part, the building needs to be aligned properly to make the rest easy as pie, oh and did I mention that it was HOTT! Here are some pictures of our progress, there will be many more to come!

This is our before picture. This is the area between the girls pen and the boys.

This is our progress after day one! We have a grid laid out and 2 posts set.

Progress after day 2, we have 6 posts set! 6 more to go!

Our goal is to have the barn live-able for the winter. it will probably not be completed which is fine, but live-able is important!