Milked Daisy May and Eleanor, got about 4 1/2 gallons, enough for Manda, me, Maddie and a batch of yoghurt. Down to only 4 herdshare owners again, wonder if I should advertise our programme. But it's only the brave souls who venture out into the world of raw milk !! And I need to stay off any official radar. Don't want to be harassed.
Hopefully taking Gabriel to auction this week. I'd hoped to take him last week, but we went to get another 3/4 ton of salt so there wasn't time to try and coax him into the trailer, plus the trailer has to be jacked up out of the ice, and Herbie worked Monday morning too.
A quiet week on the farm, got some cleaning done, including the bathrooms and the mud room. Went galavanting with Jackie on Wednesday, which was fun. We struggled to get up her driveway at the lake, had to take about 4 runs at it, but thankfully Herbie had re-salted ours before we got back.
Also started our taxes. Probably my most unenjoyable task. Ergo, the cleaned out mud room and toilets today :).
Maddie is still around. Herbies work mates are amazed and they all remember her name and ask about her. She's wearing her new bright green bandanna ;). I took video of her licking the window yesterday. She usually just licks me. She prefers warm milk now, actually turns away if the milk is cold. Spoilt girl. She skarffs down the fridge-cold grapes, but giving her still warm milk straight from the cow has awakened a new need in her. I've always given her fridge cold milk, from when she was a day old and I melted the bottle in the pot trying to defrost some colostrum for her. But, I suppose, with the below freezing temperatures, a quick blast in the microwave is acceptable.
The sheep have been mighty frisky the past few days. Jumping high and then doing that spectacular mid-air twist and landing back on all 4s. Running around the pasture on those pronking legs, boing, boing, sort of like Springboks, but not as high. The girls have been head-butting, running around each other - haven't seen Hershey join in any of the fun. They are looking rather bedraggled, I plan on shearing them in May this year, but that will depend on the weather and the lambing schedules.
Have started selling a few eggs again. Finding around 5 every day, but need to go look fairly often as they freeze. Found another frozen one in the chicken house this morning.
I'm all showered and smelling nice, sitting in bed letting my hair dry. Am trying to decide on how I should cut my hair. Herbie suggested shoulder length, but I wish I had confidence in any of the hair cutters here ! I so like a good cut but haven't had anyone in Michigan give me that.
Oh well, good night all :)))