The Boys......

I got  to take pictures of the boys last month, Sullivan did such a good job! Sawyer too! I love the the picture below of Sullivan, this is just soo him! When ever he sits on the couch he always has to cross his arms like this and this legs! it's too cute!

Here is another funny one of Sullivan, he loves making this face at us trying to be funny!

Sawyers Big eyes, he looks so much older here! He is really starting to fill out and now becoming even just a little chunky. 

Sawyer loves to hold his feet all the time now, but..... not for the camera! ;)

another one of Sullivan's funny faces, he just loves to be goofy!



 Sawyer just might take after his big brother?!

 

 

I finally got around to ordering some kefir grains, I can not wait till they come in the mail! I will be trying Sawyer on a goat milk kefir formula that I will make. Really hoping it will make a huge difference in the constipation that he has now, which is controllable with the addition of blackstrap molasses, but if I dont have to add that, that would be a bonus.

Mikayla's birthday is coming up in March, we will be having her party this weekend. We have been busy planning the decorations and food, of course being a girl she is all in to this! I told her I was making the cake, and she was dissapointed, she really wants to make it, so who knows maybe I will let her.



New Goat.........

Here we are with another new goat! hehehe! Well, the goats that I had in milk we drying up, they were very late in their lactation and hopefully pregnant! So normally this would be okay, but as you know Saywer is now drinking goats milk full time, so we NEED to have a milk supply. So I had been looking around for a new goat, I wanted a nubian, but this time of year most goats are not lactating, so not very many goat for sale at all in milk. I was willing to take any breed goat that was producing milk. Well one day a purebred nubian that just had a baby and producing lots of milk, was for sale on craigslist, they were asking $300, I really didn't have that much to spend on a new goat. So I decided I would part with one of my goats, Fawn, she is such a bully and harder to handle than my other girls, she is just bull headed. Always makes chore time more difficult. So anyways, I put her on Craigslist and though well if she sells and this Nubian in Milk is still for sale than I can get her. Well about a half hour after I posted my goat for sale, I got a phone call, I said to Mikayla " it's gonna be someone who wants to buy Fawn". Well sure enough it was someone calling about her. So it turns out that it was the very same person who was selling the nubian I was wanting to buy! hahaha! They were wanting a Saanen(the breed of Fawn), so needless to say we traded!! Praise God, Always supplying what we need!!

I do miss Fawn, and kinda was like what did I do! But there is such better harmony in the goat herd now! What a difference! She was always causing trouble and being mean to the other goats. Now all the goats get along well!

 

Soooo here is Diamond! She is a two year old Nubian, She is very shy and timid, but is coming around, she wants to like you, she's just nervous! Unfortunately he feet were VERY unkept and now he legs are a bit deformed, through proper trimming it should all correct, just will take time. Hopefully they will see the trimming on Fawns feet, and learn how to take care of them properly. Diamonds old owners asked if we trimmed their feet, so seemed like they would too?? Below is a before picture, I have sense trimmed them they look better, but not alot. It will take some time. She defiantly has an easier time walking now, I can see that. But her back feet she's still not landing right.

Goats hooves should be very upright, almost square shaped, and she has what's called "elf shoes".

Poor girl, not very comfortable! this makes them use their legs completely different. It's like if you were wearing shoes that were built up realllly high in the toe area, and had to walk that way alll the time. Your whole body would feel out of wack!

Sam say's Hi! It's cute, every time we come home from being somewhere, he always comes to the fence and gives us a whinny! too cute!

Here's the horse crew! Happy campers! Keep them fed and they are happy! :)

This is Breeze! Such a pretty girl, who looooves to be dirty! She seeks mud and pursues it! and of course there is Maddie in the background. She says Hi to Brynn! ;)

Kitty Cat Cassidy, enjoying the sun we had yesterday!

and some chickens! they wanted their pictures taken too!

Here is the New table my husband built!! Farm style! I LOVE LOVE how it came out! It's soo big, wide and long! I got to do some distressing to the wood, it was fun!

Sullivan wanted in on the pic too! :)

New adventure!

 

Why the picture of the honeybee you may ask? Well..... While on a walk in the wood behind our house, my husband discovered a beekeeping hive. He looked in and it was active(praise the Lord it's winter and they were pretty sleepy)! Honey came dripping down from the shelf thing!

So we asked the people we rent from about it, it was theirs, and they gave us a okay on using it!

Soo looks like we will be learning bee keeping! I will be wearing two suits like above! lol

I can't wait for fresh raw honey! What a blessing!

Goats Milk Formula

 

I thought I would share with everyone, the recipe I use to make goats milk formula.

With my last two babies, I really wanted to nurse them, and both of them ended up being tongue tide, they were not efficient at nursing. I tried hard to pump, but had not luck as my milk supply was already low. I tried about every thing heard of to boost my supply, but sadly nothing worked.

So in a attempt not to use commercial formula, it just sounds yucky! So processed, and things added that are not needed or that great for babies! And not to mention years ago, there was a recall on some commercial formula because it had traces of JET FUEL in it!!!! How does that even happen!

So when I had Sullivan, we ventured into goats milk formula, soon we ended up buying goats to have fresh raw milk on hand! There are a few different recipes for goats milk formula that I have found online and one that I got from my naturalpathy doctor. What I am using now is a mix of both.

 

For an 8oz bottle

 

4oz of Water(boiled or distilled)

4oz raw goats milk

1/4 tsp infant probiotics

1/4 tsp of Sunflower oil(Vitamin E)

1/4 tsp extra virgin olive oil(for monosaturated fats)
1/4 tsp of Cod liver oil(contains DHA,EPA & Omega-3)

1/2 tsp virgin coconut oil(this is important, as it contains lauric acid which is a medium-chain fatty acid. It's an important antiviral, antifungal that's found in breast milk)

1/2 tsp blackstrap molassses(this is different for each baby, more or less

depending on there stools, it helps with constipation, start with less, add more if needed. This provides B-vitamins, iron, trace minerals)

1/4 tsp of agave nector or maple syrup(adds carbs, necessary for brain growth)

mix all together and let them enjoy!

 

I have just lately been reading on Kefir and the benefits of that. I found another recipe that

uses kefir, and I think I will be trying that soon and see how it works. I will update how it works for Sawyer.

 

 

New horse and happenings!

This is Sam, we got him a few months ago, and love him to pieces! He is just soo sweet, if your near him, he will take his head and place it between your arm and body, forcing you to hug him! so cute!

 

 

 

 

Sawyer at two months!

Sawyer at three months, he is now on goats milk, he was not gaining weight, growing fussy alot and then started losing weight, i then realized he needed some supplement feeding. Pumping has never worked for me, prob cuz my supply has already deminished. So goats milk formula it is. he has since been gaining a lb a week! So much change in him in just a few days of supplementing!

 

 

Sullivan recently turned TWO! I can not believe what a big boy he is now!!

 

Here is silly Sullivan!

and another new addition!

Well, here we are with another new goat. This time kind of on a more sad note. Alot of our babies that were born this spring, ended up dying. They got a parisite that made them very sick very fast, and by the time I figured out what it was and how to treat them, it was too late. The only doeling we have left is Petuna, and so she went in with our adult goats, but she was still lonely, and needed a goat her age, so we found this pretty little girl, her name is Penelope(for now). They seem to really like each other! She is a really sweet goat, who will follow you around like a puppy dog. Sullivan and her seem to like each other quit much!

 

 

Sullivan and Penelope, he offers her a treat, then they kiss and hug!

This is what Sullivan does now when he see's the camera, he smiles reeeeaally big and

says "cheeeeeeesssseeee"! And if you know me at all I did not teach him to say cheese for the

camera, that is like a photographer no no! He picked that up from someone else!

 



Another New Addition!

Proud to introduce (a little late)..... Sawyer James Hayward! He arrived Sept.21st at 12:25am weighing 8lbs 10oz  21.5 inches long! He is just soo sweet, so calm and quite. We are so blessed to have him. His birth went very smooth and was born perfectly healthy! Praise the Lord!