Chicama Run Family Farm

Nah - don't worry..... no one has walked up and offered us money to buy our place.  It's just time to move animals.

This might sound easy - but it's not.  We need to separate the goats we are breeding, goats that need to go to the butcher, goats that just need to go to a new home and goats that aren't ready to do anything yet but sit around and eat.

What this type of separation does is allow us to put bucks in the pens and leave them with their "girls" for months until it's time for them to start having babies, then we pull them out again and deal with birthing (which is an entirely different stress-er).

Today I counted 7 goats are ready for the butcher, 6 just need to be pulled to wait around, and 2 are going to a new home tomorrow (hopefully).  Then the buck can go in - but we have to move them around first because of farm tour plus all this rain has made the barn a nasty mess.

It's a season of cleaning, preparing and figuring out the future.  Funny, Joe said yesterday that this isn't our busy season...... but it is in it's own right a busy season because it's planning for the future and next year is always busier than this one.