It has been a long time since I have blogged. There has also been so much that has happened since then at Vivian Acres it will probably take all winter to catch up.
In brief, since last May we were blessed with a successful kidding season. We had a set of twins Elvis and Priscilla born to Gwen, Pink gave birth to Janis Joplin who is very sweet and had to be hand raised by Georgi and I (Story to follow) Sharon our dairy goat gave birth to twins Axel and Slash. Although they are half dairy, they have beautiful soft fleeces. Momma gave birth to our little Ga Ga and lastly we adopted one more goat from Kirby’s Happy Hoofers a wonderful blue eyed girl named Averil. I will go through and introduce them individually in later blogs.
Vivian Acres has also grown in another way this past summer. I will be introducing later the Pussycat Dolls. These are a group of 34 chickens living on the hill which have begun earning their keep providing us with eggs. In the spring we had housed 19 meat chickens who had no name as a group but they were only here for 6 weeks and then moved into the freezer. There were some real lessons learned there that I will share.
We had a summer of farmers markets, sometimes 3 each week. Man that was a lot of work. They are beginning to wind down now and we had a good time and met a lot of great people and sold some yarn and our goat milk soap. They were a lot of work but in most cases worth it.
Of course our regular residents of Vivian Acres have made it through another summer, mostly without incident. With fall comes shearing (which I have been doing myself this year) and later it will be date night with Jethro (our resident buck) who has already begun making himself pretty for the girls.
I hope to be blogging regularly again as there is so much to tell.
Naked goats on the hill
So nice to see you back on the blogosphere Tom!
Sounds like you’ve been very, very busy too. Congrats on all the new additions