Got Milk?

We do!!! I picked up Nutmeg today and brought her home and tonight I milked her. She has only been milked once a day the whole summer so when I tried to milk her tonight I didn't get much (they had gotten almost a gallon out of her) so my almost pint was a bonus for the day. The more that I milk her the more she will produce!

Nutmeg is a great milker. She hopped right up onto our makeshift "milk-stand" and let me do my thing...of which I wasn't a pro at but it worked out. She was so patient with me.Getting some milk! Mmmmm, it smelled so yummy!
I can't believe Todd didn't delete this picture and take another one...my face expression is ridiculous!
So, not much here but tomorrow we will fill that bowl! Nutmeg is a Mini-LaMancha, which is a cross between a Nigerian and a LaMancha. She is a big girl (wide) but fairly short, which is nice. I'll take a better picture of her tomorrow but tonight, we forgot we had her and looked out the window and this HUGE T-REX creature was peering over the fence at us and it totally freaked us out. She doesn't look like Mimi and Daisy because of her ears, it's almost like they are cropped, but that's the way LaMancha's are. Anyways, it was pretty funny as we thought for a moment we were in Jurassic Park.

As predicted Nutmeg has taken her lead in the herd and Daisy stays away, she doesn't want the head butt. Mimi however thinks she's the queen bee and tries her luck and inevitably gets a head butt. It's pretty funny and I can't say that Mimi doesn't deserve it. The babies still cried tonight and Nutmeg even joined in for about 10 minutes but it's been quiet ever since. I'm not sure what the sleeping arrangements are out there, hopefully everyone is snug as a bug in the goat house and no one got kicked out. I don't dare check for fear I will awaken the little whiners and we'll have to go through it all again. Thursday we move them into the shed where the bunnies have been and it will become the "barn" because the goats are going to need more room when they are bigger and to have their babies. (Doesn't this sound like when I was younger and had to re-arrange things all the time?!)

Also, we are getting MORE baby chicks on Thursday, 5 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Americauna and 10 Cornish. We are raising 6 cornish for my mother and she will pick them up frozen and wrapped and the other 4 will be in our freezer. The other 6 birds we will raise to layer age and determine which are the best layers. The others will go into the freezer as well.

We still aren't sure if Elphaba (rabbit) is pregnant...she is so moody but she has 2 weeks from today if she is pregnant until she delivers. She will get a nest box and hay next week to see if she does anything with it. If she does have babies we are keeping a couple of does and will sell her because she just isn't friendly!

Patrick (the male rabbit) is so affectionate and LOVES to snuggle. He has been spending his days with the chickens and loves that. He gives them quite the stir. He is digging a hole right now that we are keeping an eye on, but when he isn't working on it, the chicks love to take dirt baths in it. Seems like everyone's getting along...all except for Charlie and Saydie. With the arrival of Nutmeg it has turned their world upside down. She is bigger than them and that intimidates them. (They must also feel like they are in Jurassic Park). We've yet to introduce them...they went out to go to the bathroom today and it was chaos. Maybe tomorrow we'll try again!

So...that's my story/journal entry for today! There truly is never a dull moment!