2013 Kidding Season:)

Kidding season is in full swing with a short break now. Count so far is bucks 4, does 1. We start again first week in April. I just love seeing the kids running and bucking around the house. I am a little afraid for them as I walked out to feed the other day and a coyote was standing by my porch. By the time I got my gun, it was gone. I really need to get a handgun to wear around the farm on my hip for those instances. I hate to kill wild animals, but I can't lose my kids or chickens to predators. Once they get one of them, they will be back for more. I had one male coyote that just kept coming in the daytime and was so bold that he would not even run away if yelled at him, waving my arms. He just stood there and scratched the ground, marking his territory! My brother took care of him for me but now he lives too far away :(

Kelsee and I have been very busy with school but we will both be done by next year and we will be Happy! I am finally adjusting to the empty nest since she married and bought a house down the road. I was really sad at first but there are definite advantages to having no kids in the house. Mark and I have more time for each other, and the house is much cleaner. I no longer have to pick up after her, even though she also helped with the housework sometimes. She is finding out now what is like to be responsible for other's messes! I think she finally knows who the house elf is that cleans in the night!
Anyway she was a beautiful bride!

Kids are so darn cute!

Its Kidding time...finally.

Count bucklings 2, doellings 1. Come on Angeliese, level up the count. Busy, busy. Gotta go check on the babies.
Lisa and Kelsee

Busy times

Well kidding season is fast at hand. We are crazy busy with both Kelsee and I working and both also going to school. I just made batches of pachouli oil, and eucalyptus/spearmint oil soaps. They turned out beautifully and smell great. I am experimenting with some natural colorants. I used cinnamon in the pachouli and it gave it a warm beige color with flecks in it. I have had a lot of homework over the last week and I have room to breathe for a day, so I plan to make a couple more batches tomorrow. Kelsee has been updating the website and she added a counter for the kiddings that are coming in a couple weeks. You can see it at www.kinderkornergoats.com

Off to bed now. Sleep tight!

Lisa

Hi everyone.

It is with great sadness that I dismantled the Christmas tree and put the decorations away. I am taking a small break in between homework for my master's program. I set some more eggs in the hatcher yesterday after moving out the chick hatch. 15/20 isn't bad. The little ones grow so fast. They sure are hardy. I will soon have to decide where to go with the growing ones. Looking ahead to spring and kidding season. I have kids coming in 29 days..but who's counting. Lol. We still have to give their shots and trim them one more time before they become too fat. We could feel babies kicking today. I love the fact that kinders can have babies anytime of the year. Such a great quality in them. I will be acquiring a couple new does soon that are bred for June. Such exciting times and it gets me out of the winter blues. Can't wait for spring. Hope the weather holds for our kiddings, we have been lucky so far.

Blesisngs,

Lisa

Beautiful Cochins

It is great to see pictures like this in winter, It really makes me look forward to spring. These birds are some we hatched in our incubator. Aren't they beautiful! We love chickens!

Ringing in a new year.

Well another year has past and the time just flies by. It's time to reflect on our blessings and look to what we want to accomplish in the new year. I have many things to be thankful for. My husband works so hard on everything at the farm. He is such a perfectionist! He grows a great garden and puts his heart into it. He has been busy this fall winterizing the goat shelters and rebuilding the well house.

My beautiful daughter Kelsee, is engaged and will be starting the next step in her life. We have been busy planning her wedding for next fall. She is busy with her full time job and going to school full time so she is always busy. She should be finished with her web design degree next fall and her graphic degree the following year. I don't look forward to her leaving home, as she has always been a blessing. She was home schooled and we have just had a great time with her and her friends being around. I do look forward to her pig leaving. She is annoying. I think pigs are supposed to be bacon and ham...just saying.

I am overrun with chicks and trying to keep the hatcher full. We are running out of room to put them! I am also making soap and deciding how to sell it. I have made many flavors and I find it quite enjoyable. Problem is that it has to cure for 6 weeks, so there is soap everywhere, but it sure smells good. I continue to work full time as a nurse while I go to school also. I am working on my master's degree in nurse management/administration. I love to produce as much of our own food as I can, so if my husband grows it, I preserve it! Tomatoes, jellies, green beans, potatoes, garlic, meats, whatever we can produce. He has a great sweet potato crops this fall. I can't wait until our fruit trees start producing, and I get to make apple sauce. It's already time to put in the garlic.

Anyway some of our greatest blessings are our friends who teach us many things. Especially how to be a better person. I love having friends who are so close that I can count on them when I need them. They make me a better person. I wish I had that gift. I am working on it, but I don't think it will ever come naturally. Thoughtfulness is just not my gift. Oh well, maybe a goal for this year, to be more thoughtful.

I hope you have a very healthy and productive New Year.

The LaRose's at Kinder Korner.