We have water and water pressure to the barn. Yippee!!!!!! We have so much water pressure that it nearly blew the bucket off the fence last night. Just have to remember not to turn the water on full blast when filling water buckets. The pressure will be so nice when it comes time for cleaning buckets, feed pans, rabbit trays and the like.
A little bit of history about our farm: We started this venture in the summer of 2007. I had been teasing my husband that I wanted a couple of pygmy goats for Christmas one year - and of course he said no. Well in 2007 at the 4-H Fair there were some baby Angora kids in the FFA petting zoo. I hadn't seen them yet when my DH (dear husband) asked me if those were what I was wanting. So the next day I checked them out - they were adorable! Anyways I went through the barn and found some pygmy's to show him. He started asking around about them and one of the kids called me to tell me that "Dad is asking where to buy them!"
After the fair I got to looking around and found a guy in town that had some miniature goats for sale. I took DH to see them and we fell in love. We brought them home and named them Clyde and Sassy. This guy also had miniature horses and Jack fell for them hard. After getting Clyde and Sassy home we started doing some research and I decided that they weren't pygmies after all - that's when we found out about Nigerian Dwarf's. I actually think Clyde and Sassy were a pygmy nigerian cross.
While I'm researching goats - Jack is researching miniature horses. Someone at work told him about a couple on S.R. 18 that raised minis so one day after work - we took a drive down 18 on a wild goose chase. We found the place in Flora Indiana. We picked out two that were for sale, a 14 year old mare (Katy) who had just foaled and a blue-eyed filly (Crystal) that wasn't weaned yet. They were gorgeous! We had to wait for about three weeks to pick Katy up until she weaned her colt. I could hardly wait but it was worth it. When we picked up Katy we put a deposit down on Crystal and we picked her up after she was weaned. The really fun part about this was that our kids were on vacation with their Grandma while we were doing all of this - so we kept it a secret until we went to pick Katy up. We told them we were going to get goats and they about had a fit when they saw the goats - they were as big as the horses and not at all what we had been talking about.
This is Katy the day we picked her up - she was bred for an April 2008 foal.
This is Crystal - the day we decided she was to be ours. You can't see it in the picture but her eyes are as blue as Jack's blue jeans.
Well - that's enough for today - guess I'd better go get some work done around here.
See ya tomorrow - hopefully with news of babies!
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