Friday, September 18, 2009

Getting ready for the Fair!


Wow, this has been a busy week for sure!! Breeding season is in full swing with the goats, and also State fair preparation! Wednesday, Dad and I hauled two loads of goats up to the vet to get health papers, Thursday I had to get pictures of one of my buck kids for a potential buyer which means washing and clipping especially since it's so muddy right now, and then that evening I had to get all the Boer kids that I'm showing tattooed...that's one of my least favorite jobs...so I put it off as long as I can. :D So now I have nice green fingernails from the tattoo ink that takes forever to wear off. :) Thanks to Andrew for being my assistant! :)

And then today I clipped one of the Nubian girls Shardae...goodness that goat is such a priss!!! I was glad to get her done with, well all except a udder shave but I'll probably do that on Monday. And for tomorrow....I have someone coming out to look at the buck in the morning, and then I need to go to Stillwater to pick up feed and get a few things I need for the shows...and then come home and clip more of the girls. Busy busy!! AND we have to get things to build my Nubian buck "Escape" a pen WAY away from the girls...I knew I should never have named that dude "Escape!" :D

And then Monday we haul the Nubians up to the fair! I'm sure I'll have lots to blog about once the week is over, it should be quite the adventure. :)

I'm not sure what I'm doing to myself with breeding the goats for February babies...I'll be frozen for sure!! But at least I won't have to wait ALL the way until March!! :D And it won't be all of them kidding then, just a few and most of them will be March/April. I have one last sale to go to to try to get a new Boer buck (I didn't buy one at the San Angelo sale), I just looked at the sales catalog for it last night, and it looks like they are going to be selling some really nice ones, so I'm praying that I'll be able to get one!

Anyway... I'm so ready for all this rain to leave for a while...I mean I'm grateful for it, but sloshing around in muddy soggy goat pens (in flip flops) is not exactly fun. :P

Here's the pics of the buck kid I mentioned, "Shekinah's Be Prepared." :) The top picture is one of Shardae's triplets saying "hi"




Gotta run...

5 comments:

J.Morris said...

I am wore plum out just listening to all your activities.
POP

Danielle said...

Wow...besh lots of goat things going on! :) The fair will be fun though and I hope your goats do well!!!! :)

Oh, but hey..you GOTTA get that pic off your sidebar, okay?

Hannah B. said...

Hope I get to see you show, Besh!

Dannie, I didn't even see that picture until I went back up to find what you were talking about. :) I think it is a good, CUTE pic of you! :)

Danielle said...

Hannah you are WAY too nice, cause that pic is just horrible of me! And that is NOT my hair! :D I was showing Besh different styles online and she used THAT pic...SO bad!

Bethany said...

See Dannie? I'm not the only one that thinks its a good picture!! I mean you just look SO young, (like about 12) and beautiful!! However...since you don't like it...and I CAN be nice sometimes, I can change it for you. :)