Bottle-fed Calves, Hatched Eggs, and Ornery Goats

Reader Contribution by Lisa Doucette
Published on April 7, 2010
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Well, once again it’s been nonstop here. We are at that point that we are starting to wonder if it’s all worth it. There’s so much work, and it just never stops. We don’t have 2 minutes to ourselves. We have decided as a family tonight that we are going to set a day or evening where we are going to do something for just the family. The problem is finding that day.

Today was a beautiful day, as has been the last week. I hope that spring is finally here. The goats were happy outside and I cleaned out the chicks and the greenhouse. J. did the chicken coop.

The piglets are doing great. Someone came and picked one up after they were only one week old. We didn’t guaranteee that one. The person understood. Dave finally made a door for Wilbur so he can go outside and divided the pen with electric wire. Now we know why people tell us to put a barricade on the OUTSIDE of the electric fence. When you train pigs to the electric fence they actually run into the fence if zapped. They don’t back away from it like a normal animal. Charlotte ran through it and broke it twice! Sometimes pigs aren’t the brightest bulbs in the bunch.

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