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maggie144 · Post: # 50851Post **maggie144** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:26 pm

Hi everyone

I have had a good couple of days. Yesterday, i went and picked up a sewing machine from a freecycler, it was an older one, situated inside a small table, it great,

Today i have been making biscuitsm cakes, and the most wonderful soup for my hubby who is poorly today.

jsut waiting for a visitor, who is coming to talk to me about home educating, she pulled her son two days ago, and needs someone to talk too.

cheers maggie.

Boots · Post: # 50853Post **Boots** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:49 pm

Good score on the machine, maggie. Glad you had a good day. I spent mine moving goats around and hiding from the heat and making, (or rather applying transfers) to T'shirts.

Quite a good feeling looking over at them all hanging on the fish tank.

Daughter 2 made a cake... but it has already gone!

...am a sucker for chocolate cake...

maggie144 · Post: # 50854Post **maggie144** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:52 pm

Hi there

What sort of goats have you got there, i have 6 in all 3 alpines, 1 toggenburg and 2 saanans

i love my girls and boys heaps.

regards maggie

Boots · Post: # 50861Post **Boots** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:41 pm

I just halved my crew last weekend, and sent the Toggenburg and Saanans packing. I am just back to my boer herd of 6 now. They were my original crew, but I took the others on when folks had trouble housing or feeding them. My girls have all bred late, but are beginning to show now. A new family has moved into the area and are keen to set themselves up with a four legged family, so the milkers have gone down there.

Goats are cool critters, huh? Heaps of personality.

Shirley · Post: # 50862Post **Shirley** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:16 pm

Boots wrote:
Goats are cool critters, huh? Heaps of personality.

OH YES!! I'm a relative newcomer to goats... we've got three saanen and they are wonderful.

Maggie - I hope that your hubby is feeling better soon.

glenniedragon · Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:00 pm

We had a vet come to last Thursday's smallholders meet to do a goat talk. I'd often wondered about getting goats but he scared me with talk of CAE, Joannes disease, zoonoses, dietary problems and apparently we have a specific problem around here with high molybedenum(sp?) levels that reduces the copper levels in goats that can be a problem too. I still would like goats in the future as the ones I have had any contact with have been real characters! Oh hum one day......

Kind thoughts
Deb

maggie144 · Post: # 50901Post **maggie144** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:53 pm

i love my goats, if i ha the room or a field nearby that i could rent i would increase them ten fold tomorrow.

they are happy, go lucky animals, with a beautiful temprement. don't let anyone put you off having them, i have had my oldest two nearly 4 years now and they have never had anything wrong with them.

give them love and affection and a dry shed for the night and the will give you a truely wonderful gift

Fresh goats milk every day. nothing quite like it

regards maggie144

yugogypsy · Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:03 am

Lucky you guys with your goats, I won't be getting any until next year,

I had a good afternoon though, went by the local thrift store and found a good old fashioned enamel canner, with the rack and all

. And I got a chair, we have been short 2 chairs for over a year.

I learned how to can the old fashioned way and nobody here or anyone we ever gave anything to got sick.

Now just to find rings, I lost a bagful when someone moved out

Rick got a days work and maybe tomorrow too.

So its been a good day

Lois

Selfsufficientish.com

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