Ranch Update

I've been needing to do a general update on the ranch for quite some time now. . .

Well, things have been going pretty good! As always, there are new animals coming, animals being sold, goats getting milked, bottle babies to feed, work being done. The last week the weather has cooled off from the over 100 degree days we were having, and it has been so nice. We had a male llama that had gotten heat stress. I clipped more of his hair off, and then it rained and the weather cooled off, and he's doing much better - praise the Lord! The days and weeks where the heat never goes away, when it's over 100 in the day and 90 at night, can really, really take a toll on all the animals. I think we only lost a rabbit or two and maybe a few birds, which isn't bad considering the amount of animals that are residents here ;). The does' milk production dropped some, which is to be expected in the heat. But other than that, all the animals handled it pretty well.

Last week I had blogged that we got 3 new female llamas. Well, we kept one, and the other 2 girls went to a new home with Peppy, our baby llama that was born in January of 2011. So that's good. At the moment we have 2 female llamas - "Salty" and "Martha", the new girl. And 3 male llamas - "George Washington", as we like to call him, and 2 others who are for sale.

As always there are donkeys around the ranch. Some are being broke to ride, another one is our pregnant large jenny who lives with the sheep and goats. She is due in October. . . donkey foals are SO cute, I'm looking forward to it!! The newest little guy is rather hilarious. The other night me and my sister were doing a show online, outside, and this little guy kept making noise in the background. . . he's pretty loud for how small he is!

And as Fall gets closer and closer every day, it's breeding season, already. I have not bred anyone yet, but I finally wrote down my breeding chart for the year. None of the does have come into heat yet, but I have noticed a lot more head butting the past few days, and one of the bucks (little Tic-Tac) is in rut - so that is a good sign. I want to get all the does bred asap so we have winter kids (January/February), as I do NOT like warm weather babies. The latest I really want anyone kidding is March but, I can't make the does come into heat... so here I sit and wait.

I hope you all have a fabulous day enjoying the wonderful weather God has given us!

Suriyah

Ranch photos!

Howdy y'all!! Here are some recent pictures from around Liberty Ranch. Speaking of Liberty Ranch (what we call our place, the resident ranch of Good Goats), have you liked our page on Facebook yet? If you haven't, head on over there and "like" us!

The weather has cooled off the past few days, and for that we are very thankful! This morning it was 57 degrees when we milked - so nice!

Yesterday we came home with 4 llamas (3 females, 1 male), 5 pigs, 1 miniature donkey, 1 bottle calf and one goat. . . just another Friday night!

Okay, on to the photos...

this is Roxy taking a roll in the rocks...she's such a good pup.

Patriot, the MiniNubian, Powerhouse and Paul - the 3 amigos.

the 2 resident bottle calves, a bull calf on the left and heifer calf on the right.

2 donkeys

a Muscovy duck, we have soo many of them. They are great. They don't quack, and they eat lots and lots of bugs!

Can you guess what it is?

Mooo! Mama!!

The short, fat, miniature donkey jack.

Jenny, one of our MiniNubian doelings.

2 of the new female llamas smelling one of our male llamas through the fence. He is just a little thing compared to them!

Big, alert girls.

Pretty llama mamas! They were in with a very large male llama, and they all appear to be bred. Yay for crias!

Powerhouse....

Pony rides, there are always lots of ponies and horses being trained across the street.

This morning we partly sheared the big male llama this way. He is very wild, and this was the safest way to do it. He didn't get a pretty haircut, but I'm sure he feels much cooler now.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Suriyah

Off topic - Why we are involved in politics

So, I really need to give an update on the ranch. Not a whole lot out of the ordinary has happened lately as far as the animals go, so that is why I haven't been blogging about them as much. But, I plan to soon :).

In the meantime, I thought I would share 2 videos me and some of my family made last night. They are well worth watching!

The first one is by my older sister Qadoshyah.




And this next one is by my mom, myself and my 3 older siblings.



Peace,

Suriyah

flying Nubian ears!

I hope everyone is having a fabulous day and surviving this heat!!

Suriyah

Fat Bucks

All the bucks are doing very, very well and have gained a little weight! They are on alfalfa/orchard/oat hay, twice a day, and as you can see from the photos - they are thriving.

Hope you all are enjoying the heat!

Suriyah

Farm life & trips!

As usual, things have been busy on the ranch lately. Lots of does in milk, new animals, old animals, no more babies being born (right now), does are needing to be getting bred soon, the weather is hot, everyone is doing pretty well for the most part and everyone has been busy!

This is a new bottle calf,

And some new older calves,

One of our guard llamas,

My wonderful Mom,

A new miniature horse,

Early Friday morning, me and 3 of my older siblings headed out to Nebraska. It was almost a 10 hour trip. We were headed there for the Nebraska State Republican Convention to Live Stream it. The trip went well, the people in Nebraska were very friendly and welcoming, and we had a blast.

The guest house we stayed at,

Silly tired siblings!

Hope you all have a great day and don't overheat in this hot weather!

Suriyah

Bottle Calf

Isn't he cute?! He's one of our bottle calves, and has grown up on goat milk.

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Suriyah

Liberty Party at the Ranch!

This past Sunday, July 1st, we had a big Liberty Party at the Ranch. Lots of Ron Paul, liberty loving people came up. We had a great time, and thanks to everyone who came. To those who didn't come, you certainly missed out!

We had TONS of food, and still have lots of left overs. What's a party without tons of food?!?

We had music playing all day long, and in the evening we had some songs sung live by Hannah Young, her sister and several of us (myself included, in the group songs).

The pony rides on Liberty Lady were a huge hit among the kids, and the big guys when they wanted to be goofy :),

There was lots of hang out time with our fellow freedom loving friends. Some drove here from as far as 5 hours away!

A few speeches were done in the evening after dinner as well as the singing,

We also played volleyball.

We had a blast, and hope everyone else did too! If you didn't make it this time, maybe you can next time :).

When it was milking time, I was hoping to just get a few of my siblings and good friends in there and get milking done as quickly as possible. Well, we got it done quickly, but my sister decided to say over the mic that it was milking time and everyone was welcome to watch! So, there ended up being about 40 people in the milk room watching. It was fun, and I hope everyone enjoyed watching ;).

Hope you all have a great 4th of July!

Suriyah