Putting Up Fence

Joseph has been helping me put up fence around the big pasture I am making for my goats to graze most of the year. The fence is looking nice. The problem we are running into is allergies.
For the past week or so the grasses have been pollinating and then drying. Working in it is terrible! Almost intolerable!! Joseph takes pills and I take showers trying to control all the allergic reactions. The field next to mine grew some field grass this year. Some of the seeds scattered over the fence into my field. Great for the goats to eat, but absolutely terrible for us to be around and have to work in taking down the old fence and putting up the new one. (The old fence is not a fence that can hold goats.) I am going to have to spend the next couple of weeks stratigically chaining the goats to places to eat and trample down the grassess where we need to work before we can get in and get the fence done.


We went out to visit Jizelle. I was planning to bring her home last week, but we don't have the fence and pen finished enough. We are letting her stay with her mother another two weeks, which means we should bring her home another week from tomorrow. She sure has grown. She is two month old now. I am very nervous about getting a new goat, especially a whole new breed of goat. (She is an Alpine.) I wonder and hope this all works out. Myrah has been together with Jaccapo for close to three months, but I can't t tell if she is pregnant. I kind of think not. (Most dairy goats are seasonal and only become pregnant in the fall, but my research has told me that Nubians have a bit more flexibility.) I don't know how I will be able to get any more Nubian goats unless Myrah has babies.

Enjoy the pictures of Jizelle.