IT'S COPPER BOLUS TIME FOR THE GOATS!

I try to re-purpose an old play set slide to use as a pig feeding trough. We'll see if it works in the long run. It is time to tend to the goats so I have to trim some hooves, and give them a copper bolus. Each task is unique in its way, but it doesn't go too badly. I move Romeo (our youngest buck) into a pen of his own because his is not thriving and I think it is because the bucks are bullying him. His pen shares fencing with the bucks and does and pigs, so he is not alone.
Every day my family and I are learning what it means to run a hobby farm. We started with chickens then added myotonic, or fainting, goats, and eventually kunekune (kune kune) pigs. Throw in some Guinea fowl and turkeys and cats and dogs with a creek and tons of wildlife and you start to get an idea of what our hobby farm is like. Hobby farming is time consuming and hard, but rewarding and fulfilling. There are daily chores that never stop. The animals need to be fed and watered. Pastures and pens need to be fenced and built. Goats and pigs need to be rotated in their pastures to give them fresh food and to rejuvenate the land. Food is planted and grown for the animals. Medicines are given orally and injected to prevent and cure sickness and combat parasites. Hooves need to be trimmed. Babies need to be raised. At any given time we have gilts, sows, boars, piglets, bucks, does, kids, chicks, chickens, keets, guineas, turkeys, etc. that need our attention, love and care. Follow along and we’ll learn and grow on this adventure together!

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Title in the news: "Crazy farmer uses his teenage daughter to carry livestock" 😛 Goats are weird. No problem with hooftrimming but will bully each other to death.