Farm News

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

We are covered by an unusual blanket of snow this afternoon.  Highly unusual for Houston I might add. At times the snow was really heavy and leaving white powder of snow on trees and lawn.

I spent the morning bedding down the goats with shavings trying to beat the blizzard conditions.  Well, I did not make it before the snow started coming down hard.  The goats were really happy to see me and I gave them some extra hay to munch on as I was laying down the shavings.I put the shavings extra thick as the temps this evening were expected to be bitter cold.  Once I finished the doe pen I moved on to the yearling pen to start the same procedure again.  They were a bit scared of the white bag that contained the shavings
as I was shaking it to get all the shavings out, didn't want to leave any in the bag. Once that was complete the yearlings decided it was time to investigate this new item in their house as this is their first winter and they have never seen shavings before.  They started to nibble the shavings and I immediately went and got them some hay as I didn't want them to eat their fresh bedding. Once we got that out of the way they too started
to bed down and watch the snow come down.

Next it was the buck pen to add shavings they seem to be bumping heads to keep the other one from me. They were talking to each other and pushing on each other until I was able to get the shavings completely down.They investigated the shavings then settled down as well.

Now all the goats were settled it was time to head to the house for lunch as by now I was extremely cold.  I
had already got all of our oranges off the tree and bedded down the goats for a long winter nite.

We waited a few hours of getting ourselves warm and headed out again to prepare the evening feeding.
The goats came out of their nice warm place, ate their evening meal and headed back again to their shelter.

Looks like it is going to be a long winter.  Now I am headed off to rest after a really long day.
Have a great evening everyone.