The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Disbudded Babies

We disbudded the bucklings this morning.  It was wonderful to use a brand new iron instead of an old one.  My only concern is that we waited way too long to do this.  The babies are already three weeks old and because they are mostly Boer and bucklings, they are likely to have more substantial horns.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014