Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Jane (PlainJane) and I am the blessed and happy wife to Jeff and doubly blessed mama of two perfectly wonderful daughters. Please join me as I share our Lifestyle of Learning through Christian homeschooling and homesteading on our little hobby farm with our prairie girls.
Bookworm is our dd14/9th grader.
Our perfectionist and over-achiever. She loves reading, playing violin, her Paint horse, Annie, being a farm girl, and History re-entacting.
Ladybug
is our dd11/6th grader.
Our "girls just want to have fun" girl. She loves to play and has a great sense of humor, but also likes reading, music, her Quarter Horse, Kitty, and History re-enactment.
We are finished reading
the Moody books
By Sarah Maxwell
and HIGHLY recommend them
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he said to them, "Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you -- THEY ARE YOUR LIFE. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess." Deuteronomy 32:46-47
For today's entry, I'm sharing scenes from our goatie girls getting sheared this past Saturday evening...
This is Charlotte before her cut, our best fiber producer. For those that are new here, Angora goats produce MOHAIR. (not angora, not milk). Mohair is a much sought after (expensive) fiber that is warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and wears like iron. (Angora rabbits provide angora hair).
This is what Charlotte thinks about getting a hair cut (notice tongue)
During the shearing ~ the shearer has to be a little more careful as goats have more loose skin than sheep.
Hopefully this will be the last shearing we will have to do with our goats. I hope to trim their hooves soon and have just put up an ad at the feed co-ops to sell them. We will miss them dearly as we have had them for 4 year, but I really don't have time to work with the fiber as I had hoped and in this economy, it's time to cut our losses somewhere.
(No, the girls say the horses are not an option :)).
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I LOVE the pictures of all your animals! The one of the rabbit mom looking in on her babies is just tooooo cute! Too bad to hear you will be selling the goats : (
Donna
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Wow, now that is some long hair. I didn't realize they had that long of hair. I have French Alpines which are milk goats. The hair cut sure changed their looks. lol Have a great weekend.
These goats are cute!! I was wondering how long it takes for them to get that much hair? Is it what they grow over the winter?
Thanks for posting on my blog about the roosters!! We normally just order pullets, but my girls wanted me to order "foo-foo" chickens.....the crested heads, and/or feathered feet. We could only order straight run from the co-op we buy from.:-( So the verdict is still out. We're playing a guessing game now as the chickens establish their pecking order. We have 4 foo-foo's and 10 pullets....so hopefully we don't have 4 roos!!
Yes, I was reading about your fox situation. We lost 3 in one day to the neighbor dog!!:-( They were our 3 "new" layers.....we have some really old hens....so that prompted us to get a new batch of chickies!!
I do think we live close.....my daughter has pm'd your daughter I believe.
I didn't know anything about angora goats before reading this post! Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, and I loved the pictures. Hope you find good homes for them when the time comes.
Hi Jane!
Are you sure that it's Charlotte under all those curly locks? She reminds me of my younger son before his haricut of last week. His hair is NOT curly, but it was long. Sorry to hear that you'll have to sell your sweet goats - but I understand. Our girls too would rather have to give up something other than their horses if the need arose!
This is what Charlotte thinks about getting a hair cut (notice tongue)
During the shearing ~ the shearer has to be a little more careful as goats have more loose skin than sheep.
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