June is here and lots had been happening. My husband and I celebrated our 15th Anniversary, is been a great adventure, 5 kids later and the last few year of having horses and sheep. The chikens started our formal farm experince four years ago, beside the gardening years since we got married. We truly love our little farm, the work ettics is teaching us and the kids, the love for the land and animals and the apreciation of a simply life with the richness of quality life. I am truly blessed!
Garden happenings:
1 .Ocra
2. Tomatoes
3. Cucumber
4. Zuchini
5. Summer Squash
Is not much, our drought is been aweful although the last few weeks we had been blessed with several storm bringing few rains. I am thankful but the ground can't get enough. This summer we had been studing how to make a better garden next year, also we got a product that may make a difference in our plants,
Soil Secrets . We bought after our garden was planted, but we look forward to the difference later.
Jacob Sheep happenings:
We have a new baby lamb ram yesterday, he is perfect and loving on his mama. His mom Carly is allowing us to get close and pet her baby. We made 3 padoocks for our 2 baby rams that born early last January is funny they are as big as their mamas, Our oldest ram also got his own padoock. As I keep learning the process of managing breeding our Ewe, I decided to keep the big ram separated for the rest of the summer. I am pretty sure they are all pregnant by now. So now is a waiting game to see when they are going to have these new babies, Carly lambed yesterday so I am pretty sure Treasure is next, then Chocolate. I am not sure about Emma. I guess we will find out soon, she does looks big thought. We are working to built a bigger shelter for them, I decided to place all the babies chicks we hatched this spring with the sheep so the chicks (about 40 of them) had taking over the old shed the sheep used last winter.
Hen house happenings:
Lost our two oldest 3years old hens few weeks ago, they were awesome and gave us lots and lots of eggs. Our oldest rooster that lived with the sheep, we had to butcher him. He was 3years old and just attacking pretty much every human who enter his territory. When my baby came with big holes on his legs I thought it was just time to let him go, because he loves to go and feed these chicks and gatter the eggs of several hens we have on that side. We still have "Fancy Pants" in the hen house he is almost 2year old now and still a sweet boy who likes to be pet. And I am pretty sure we have bunch of roosters from the chicks we hatched this spring. By the way these babies are mostly from Fancy Pants and several from Rowdy.
Horse barn happenings:
Candy (paint) continue her training to be brake, she has had a lot of progress learning to canter and trot. My oldest daughter can't wait to start riding her....! We officially had her for a year now, Candy turn two last February and is been a very rewarding experience for my daughter and Candy.
Texas (quarterhorse) had a bad cut with the metal in our barn, right aboved her hoof. So that has put her in rest mode, she is great and hopefully soon my son can start riding her again. Other than that I had been obesrving her heat season. I really want to have a great baby from her, I love this
stallion . He keeps trowing blue babies like him, I hope with her been a gray mare a pretty color will come out of it.
Aramis (toroughbred) turn 14th years old last April, he is a great "just a horse" now. He is "new tu us" and this coming December he will be with us for 2years. Been a toroughbred he has teach us a lot. He was retired from races and then got some training for jump and things like that. Us, been new to horses and him always wanting to get his way had been a very strong curve of experience lol! Our trainer working with Candy had been working with him too. Is good to have diffrent kind of horses, it always teach us patient and perseverance with strong wills from both sides, ha! When my kids ride him, always come down saying they love how he moves...!
I look forward to get on the projects we need to get done before winter comes, I was very glad when we got our horse barn built last winter. Thankfuly we havent had big hail storms in our town this year. But if we ever had a baby horse, I know he/she will be prperly sheltered. That is what I want for our sheep, so I better get things going.
Maman
Enid
