Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Goat kids!!! TWIN POWER!!!

Another blog post by Daniel, age 10.  More pictures of our goats can be found at the Rusty R Ranch website designed by Daniel.

We have goat kids.  I like that we have more goats.  They are little and loud.


This is Baby Deer.    She is a girl.  She is a brown/black/white mix.


 This is Jackson. He is a boy.   He is oreo colored.
Poor Rayne up on the feeder.  She is up on the feeder because Pudding won't let her near her babies.













Twin power!!! Born on 3/5/12 .

Saturday, March 3, 2012

More Goat Pics And A Dog Picture

Since we are a family farm, that means that family members are involved in what we do.  This post is designed and written by our 10 year old son, Daniel.   He thought the goat pictures are out of date and wanted to share new pictures.  The goats are 4-H projects for the boys.  More pictures of our goats are on the Rusty R Ranch website Daniel designed.





Rayne is the white NIGERIAN DWARF . Pudding is the pregnant black Nigerian dwarf . 


Rayne is1 in April .  Pudding will be 5 in May.  Rayne is my goat. Pudding is Jacob's goat.

Look at that udder on Pudding.  Her udder is big because she is going to have kids.   I hope she has girls because boys we have to sell. We get to keep girls.





             Rayne wants me to get out the way .                                Pudding is looking at me wanting grain . 



                                          Missy is a border collie mutt . She wanted her picture too.

Compost additions from a local food pantry

Yesterday afternoon we received a call to see if we were in need of pig food.  We aren't currently raising pigs.  But thinking of bags of grain, I decided to follow up.  Some grain products can be fed to other animals, depending on what the content is.  Well, this wasn't grain, instead it was about 20 plastic tubs of rotting food.from a local food pantry.  The food was so far decayed that it wouldn't have been safe to feed to any animals.  And, just in case you are wondering why there was so much decayed food at a food pantry, we took about a 2 month+ accumulation.  Overall, it was a small percentage of waste.  We still took it to add to our compost pile.  I will spare you the pictures.  It was a gross experience.  But, if you choose farm life, you will have many gross experiences.  It comes with the territory.   In 6 months, that will no longer be a pile of decaying vegetables.  Instead it will be beautiful black wonderful compost!  For more information on composting, email me or check out The Green Zone for more information about composting.