Long time no Blog!

Yikes its been a while since I've posted on here!

Farm construction continues, the baby farm animals continue to grow and get more beautiful each day. 

Here are some photos of Maple and Syrup the two Myotonic doelings of Dandy and Scout that will be a month old in 2 days! 

More photos are on the way

All is well on the farm.

Dandy's kids are a week old and doing fabulous! The two little girls, I've named Maple and Syrup are always bouncing around. They are getting disbudded later today so they won't be too thrilled with me but its a necessary evil - no horns on the farm, which means sometime this winter Dandy, Ribbon and Scout will finally get dehorned by the Vet.

The Cremes are enormous and starting to get silvered. I really wish I had someone local to help evaluate them for me. Commercial body styles are new for me (I'm a full arch breeder!) so I'm not sure who to keep from this litter... they are all very cute!

I'll get some new photos up soon. :)

Just so you know

A recent court ruling in Maryland about pit bulls being dangerous has me extremely mad..  the repercussions of this ruling potentially can be very far reaching and make current pit bull owners' lives very difficult especially concerning renting/home owner's insurance...

As an extremely proud owner of 4 pit bulls, I work hard every day to change the public's perception of the breed by competing with my dogs in various dog sports like obedience, rally-o, agility, weight pull, and conformation.

To all those who think pit bulls are inherently dangerous, they need only look through old photos on this blog and on my other blog.. here's a recent one. 

Pepsi is really vicious huh? 

A few more photos of the new babies

Dandy kidded - Twin Doelings!! :)

Dandy kidded this afternoon without much assistance at all - really it was a charmed delivery! 

She has a beautiful pair of twin doelings, one is a flashy black and white that looks similar to her and the other is a mostly beige with a little white gal that looks alot like Scout.

They are active, nursing and just oh so cute! I'll have alot more photos to share as the new princesses grow!

A proud momma Dandy with her two little girls.

Such beautiful sisters

This was the first born, she is so cute!

Cute little girl

She has quite a set of lungs on her!

Scout's mini-me in daughter form!

She is adorable. 

This little gal was up and about very fast!

I just love her face markings!

Welcome to the world little ones!

Just a few photos

 

Only about a week left til Dandy (above) is going to kid!! 

April Showers

Its been a few weeks since I've updated the blog, figured it was time to post a quick update!

All is well on the farm, trees have come down for the big 2012 land clearing project but many more will need to come down before the stumps are pulled and the newly cleared land is ready to be prepped for use. 

The next big project that will begin soon is the buck goats will be moving to a new mostly wooded paddock where they will no longer share a fence line with the does, this will make life much easier for both the bucks and does as the boys head into rut and the does go into heat. Dandy is a little over a week away from her kidding date and she is just enormous! I am so excited for baby fainting goat kids and will post as soon as I can after the kids arrive. Ribbon is also bred but not due until fall, they are the only goats I am breeding this year as the projects for improving the paddocks and moving things around are underway, this fall/next year the Nigerians will be stagger bred in the hopes of having milk year round.

The little Creme D'Argent rabbit kits are not so little anymore, I'll be sexing them and starting to track weights this coming week. They have grown into very mellow little bunnies, Fig has been an excellent mom to her brood and I'm really impressed so far with the breed, they will definitely be one of the breeds I'll raise as I transition into my commercial project. I'll try and get some updated photos of the kits on here soon.

Other than the land clearing, goat shuffling and rabbit news there isn't too much to report, just alot of planning going on as I constantly look to the future on how to improve Imagination Acres Farm!