Farm Update

It has been quite a while since I have posted. On our hobby farm the number of animals has been growing (and diminishing). After I got two angora wethers Thomas also decided to buy angora goats. He ended up with three angoras, a white buck, a pregnant white doe and a pregnant black doe (all red color carriers). The goats were already named, and Thomas decided to keep their names; the buck is Niko, the white doe is Sally and the black doe is Lorraine.

Niko (nicknamed Yak, Longhorn and Spaniard)

Sally (in front) and Lorraine (in back)

After Thomas, Pierce decided to get goats. Pierce wanted to get milk does, but for now he has a Nubian/Boer buck (quite necessary to have milk, especially since we do not want to end up with an Angora/Nubian/Boer goat). The previous owners named him Brandon because the markings on his legs look like rollerblades and knee pads. Brandon wants a doe, so we had to separate him from the rest of the herd (which he yells and complains about whenever he sees us).

Floppy-eared Brandon

The sad news is that all our guineas are dead now. We think a few died from eating ant poison. We found a few piles of feathers, so we thought that the others got eaten by coyotes or owls, but then we found that a local stray cat was visiting our house every night, both to eat guineas and to eat the cat food which was meant for our cats. I just looked outside and that stray had the pluck to chase off our cats, sit on the back porch and eat the cat food! Dad, Thomas and Pierce are off to chase it again (with the gun)!

Lauren