The Animals and Projects

First, I need to introduce you to our animals and projects. First we have 5 goats. Two beautiful Nubian dairy girls, Frosty and Holly. Frosty is pregnant and due in the middle of April. We are not sure if Holly is bred or not. We also have 3 meat goats. The 1yr old buck, Elvis, is purebred Boer and so cute and friendly. He always comes around for a quick pet. The two does are Spanish/Boer crosses and both may be pregnant. We have only had this trio for a week now. All three have been living with each other so there is no way of telling who may have been bred when. I wish there were goat pregnancy tests!">

We also have 9 rabbits. Four of the rabbits are Californians, 2 male, 2 female. We bought them from a breeder nearby. The other five rabbits are New Zealands. I'm not very good at sexing, but I believe 4 of them are female and 1 male. We acquired these bunnies from a mom whose daughter wasn't taking care of them. We will start breeding them next month when they are 5 months old.

">To guard this livestock we have Lala and JD. They are Anatolian Shepherd/Great Pyrenees mixes.

Other miscellaneous animals I may talk about are the ferrets Daisy and Peanut, the cat Keiska, and our 9 yr old German Shepherd, Ama.

The garden is also a major project this year. We trucked in 13 yards of soil and semi-cleared a rock bed to achieve a hopefully decent garden this year. All the rabbit poop will be sure to be helpful in this venture!