windthread

Nina has been kind enough to respond to my comments of her Farm Journal,  ruitfarm.wordpress.com. the one that Nanette linked me to.   She is in Maine and has Goats that do all the Real things that Goats do and she does not hesitate to Tell All.  Today,  there was a bloody exchange between the new young buck Reddog and her other buck Oreo.  i read with baited (sp) breath.    This is important to me because my only other "real" source of mentoring is Jan the dog trainer here.  But Jan only has 3 does and does not and WILL NOT keep a buck.  So there's a Lot that doesn't happen at her Place.  Stuff happens at Nina's.  In the not too distant future her Goats will kid and i will be right there,  watching and reading.  This will help in this spring when we begin their 4th year here,  what to do.  How it all can go.  so…some time OutSide this evening…it should have been Morning when the light is better for taking pics,  but…

in the foreground,  Oona,  the third of the original of the Triumvirate,  to the right, behind her, Arctica.  The only doe here with natural horns.  Her doe.  

 

Arctica, the horned one,  who will be 4 this year and is only now allowing me to touch her.  She loves Alyssia the granddaughter and when A was here,  after so long,  she remembered and came to her.

 

you will need to double click.  Caroline and her daughter Karma

 

 

Onday,  second in the Triumvirate.  Maybe the one i love the most.

 

 

Ginger and Lucky Star

 

Ginger. Cinderella and Just Going

 

Snowbunny,  the Grandmother on the way left and Celia on the right

 

good pic of Karma and Just Going in the middle,  Ginger on the right.

 

little Grace who i call Wendy

 

Caroline and her beauty Full beard

DON'T FORGET TO DOUBLE CLICK

 

the Old Man Buck,  Gideon,  assuming the position,  chin scratching….

 

the most FINE and Glorious Buck ever born.  He is Ten years old.

 

Jumpin Jack Flash a little wether son of TenZen…a breeding with Jan the dog trainer's doe Joey last year,  Jumpin Jack Flash came when Gideon's son,  SunnyRay ,  who had been being merciless with his old and crippled father,  treating him like a doe,  when Sunny Ray went to stay at dog trainer Jan's to breed her does,  but now maybe not,….the longer story i told a few days ago,  but anyway,  this is Flash

 

 

friends

 

Nogal.  Spanish for Walnut.  Nogal is the son of Buckwheat.  Who is  Arctica's brother.  That doe here with full horns?…Buckwheat was a very intentional and very desired  breeding daughter arranged with a buck called Intrigue and the doe here,  Oona.  Buckwheat also had full horns.  and very full testicles.  He was beyond BeautyFull,  a tri colored buck with identically marked leggings.  But he was crazy with Lust.  He would run,  full force,  the length of his small buck yard and smash his horns into the corrigated metal of the Albatros.  Slam.  Slam.  Slam.  over and over.  His lust and craziness broke my heart and i sent him off to be herd sire in Los Cruces.  Before he left,  i bred him with two does here,  so daughter might see what he sired.  This is Nogal.  Not at all so showy as Buckwheat but also not so crazy either.   So far.   We'll see.  He will be 3 yrs. this spring….the Telling Year,  it seems. 

 

 

He lives right now with TenZen.  Named after the Dalai Lama.  Who daughter had flown here as a very young buckling from Boston area…Dragonfly Farm,  TenZen the sort of most gentle and peaceful buck on the planet until this last fall when he suddenly became an idiot.  Standing atop the shelter thing,  he blabbered and stuck his tongue and shot jiz until i could barely  stand it.  Until the BIG SNOW,  when no one could get on top of the buck hut and now….

 

 

 

right now it's ok.  They chase eachother around the pen,  quietly blathering their love talk,  practicing, but it's my guess that as Nogal moves into his Threeness,  things might change.  Maybe not.  But i have learned.  Stuff with Goats changes.  Always.  Always changes.

So…here we are Nina.  I am watching Ruit Farm.  Taking heart and just going.