UPDATE

So I went to city council meeting about the goats. They have said we can keep 3 goats and the horse, plus they didn't say anything about the chickens. I sold two goats last week, we still have two that are meat goats and will go to the butcher. That will leave us with what we are allowed. We are also required to fence in two complete acres for all the animals, regardless of what the required acreage per goat is usually. So we will go ahead and get that done, by mid April. The other thing is they will be watching us, I am sure.

Other than that, everything is back to a bit of normalcy.

A sense of peace

So this morning I woke up, as I usually do once the kids start bustling around for school and the dog starts pacing by my door doing the pee pee dance. My oldest, took the dog out cause he is the fastest to get ready in the morning, which includes him putting contacts in. Then my lovely daughter scurries in asking for the flat iron, to do her hair. She then proceeded to pull her hair into a pony tail, so not exactlly sure why she flat ironed it but none-the-less she did brush her hair. Finally the youngest wakes up and shuffles out, complaining that he is still tired. I responded that maybe he should go to bed at 7pm tonight instead of his usual 8pm, that perked him right up.

All in all the morning started off wonderfully. After the kids left, I began to write my presentation for the city council. Although I have not recieved anything official from them, I plan to be at the meeting tonight to discuss the issue of my goats. All in all, I only know by word of mouth that the goats are an issue. Therefore, after reading the city ordinance and doing some extensive research I am prepared to conteract their questions. So far I have a 3 page presentation with 8 photos of the shelter, food supply and water that my goats recieve. I also took the liberty of taking pictures of the chickens and the horse stall, just in case that comes into play also.

After typing that up, it was 7am and time for chores. I fed the goats a serving of fresh hay and grain, took out 10 gallons of warm water, and fed the billy kid his bottle. I also let him go out into the pasture for his hour of excercise. I don't want him to get too spoiled hanging out in that warm chicken coop all day and all night. Plus the hour gives the chickens time to eat because even if the kid has eaten he has a liking of the chicken feed for some reason.

Then I spent some quality time with Cheyanne, our horse. She got her fresh water, sweet feed and fresh hay. She also got brushed a bit and I plan on taking her out for excercise around lunch time when Ryan can help out. The door is a bit tricking to open. I will also clean out her stall at that time.

In between all that the chickens were also fed and their coop opened for the day so they can go bug hunting. :D

Today is a bit overcast but its 40 degrees outside which is nice considering the freezing weather we had been having.

So wish me luck for this evenings meeting, I have a sense of peace over the situation and know that with God all things are possible.

be careful what you say and how you say it

I posted something today on facebook. It was totally taken the wrong way. I posted that some people were very interesting. The reason why was some weird guy was running around telling my dad and step mom that he was living on the farm with us. LOL that was funny. Anyway some of my family thought I was directing the comment at the.

So yeah just watch what you post and make sure you explain it enough that people don't think its about them. So if you wanting to say something about someone say it too them.

Goats goats goats

Yes my world revolves around goats, chickens, kids and husband. Not in that particular order. But we put goats on our property so that we could have milk and possibly some meat for our family. We bought 6 goats to start out with knowing two of them would be butcher. Well the "city", I use the term lightly because the general population of our town in the 2009 census was 98. Anyway the city has an ordinance states that you may have 2 horse or bovine family per acre. So fortunatelly goats are a subfamily of the bovine family and they don't post specifics. So we will sell two more goats. Therefore making our total animal count 3 goats (2 does and a billy), one horse and 23 chickens. We shall see if they go for it.

We lost two baby goats to white muscle disease. Wasn't much we could do for them. From the time we got them, I thought one was a bit runty looking and didn't look to grow. Anyway, we tried to boost their immunity, wormed them, and just overall tried to help them out but it wasn't working. The final billy is in with the chickens and getting babied throughly. I have been giving him extra electrolights and grain ration. I don't want him to get fat but also he needs what he is getting. He is not a brother of the other two so we should be fine. I have not see any type of illness from him but we didn't see it with the other two right away. Again they are not related, so hopefully nothing going to happen, just worried.