Wow, where has the time gone? I meant to make this a weekly writing event, but time has slipped away from me! The snow has come and gone and it is time to prepare the barnyard for the arrival of the "kids" and the "calves". When I started out living on this "hillside farm", I started the animal menagerie, with two does (angora) and have since added the long, red haired, Scottish Highland heifers. Well, the time is almost here to sit back and watch those little "kids" jumping and romping, as only kids will do and strengthen the fences for the arrival of the first of two Scottish Highland calves. In the meantime, I had to start the barnyard cleaning and do some repairs in my "shanty style canvas barn, from Costco" and "Sir Edward", who was my bottle fed baby last summer, had to help. He is like having a two year old, who wanders around looking for someone to pick on or something to get into. Here he is, eating the buttons off my shirt, while I attempt to make repairs to the indoor feeder! Goats can be the most entertaining creatures you will ever meet!
These first calves are half Scottish and half Black Angus, so will be great meat, especially being raised on alfalfa. I know, you may not be into butchering beef, but there are plenty of city folks who need and want some excellent grass fed meat! As if having them bred to the angus wasn't enough, I have a a deposit on a full blooded Scottish Highland calf, born last June, but he "Duncan" lives up in the mountains of Southern Oregon and so he cannot be retrieved til some snow melts, in May. Duncan will be in charge of the whole hillside, I am sure!
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