Gertie's First Treat

Well last night had some excitement! I have been walking Gertie around the pasture and yard to get her used to the lead and while we were out walking by the peach tree I wondered if she would like one. I picked a soft one and poke a little hole so she could get a taste of the juice and boy did she love that!!

Here she is after a few bites, she was alllllll about it.

By this time the juice was running down my arm oh and let me rephrase that, the juice and a large amount of her slobber!

Now here is the second peach. It was the cutest thing to hear her sucking on that and when she was done she had peach and the juice all over her mouth, running down her chin!

After having her out walking around I started to think about how long it had been since I had a halter on Maybell and being that she only has 4 months till I can bred her then I need to work more with her so that she will be used to it to milk. Although, I want to add that instead of kicking me in the leg everytime I try, I can now pull her utters and her stand still with no halter or leads! I try to do this alot so that she will not be startled by it when it is time to milk....still a while away but I can't wait! Anyway, I get her into the stall with me and Gertie so that I can put a halter on her and she was not gonna have it. I thought at one time she had knocked loose the boards dividing the stalls then she went to spinning and poor Gertie finally jumped on the goat milking table to get out of the way! I eventually give up, only for Gertie's sake. When I let her out on her own it is just gonna be me and Maybell and I bet she comes out wearing a purple halter! I guess now i see why I am always bruised and look at myself and think "well where did that come from?"

Other than that their Granny (my Mom) sent the pigs the shucks and cobs of seventy ears of corn so needless to say they were busy for a while then sound asleep! Maybell (my big girl heifer) and Scatter Pat (my donkey) also enjoyed some shucks and cobs.

....hopefully soon I will have more wood and finish my new building!

Oh..I wanted to mention how happy I am that after changing Priscilla's feed and giving her some garden veggies she has lost a lot of weight and looks much healthier and happy.

This is before she lost weight and her skin was tight and you could hardly see her eyes.

She can move around better too. She had gotten so over weight and with a pig you cannot cut them back or starve them so I changed to higher protein and no corn. I should have known better than to use hog feed since it is designed to fatten farm pigs but I am still learning and the all have it made so no harm done but she looks great!