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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Re: [AlpacaTalk] What's new?

 

Uh, you scoop poop in mud? Not me! It's too much of a mess and the poo and mud get all mixed and...well, I just bypass that job when it's muddy, freezy, or snowy -- and it 's a mess out there! We got about 8" of snow yesterday - today with lots of wind and much blowing and drifting......Locked my girls in since the wind was coming out of the east and their door faces that direction. Kept the barn a lot drier! I hate locking them up like that, but......weather sometimes demands it. They would have slept in it anyway...which probably would have been fine, but I wouldn't have liked it. Anyway......just waiting for the spring to arrive at this point.....and know there is more bad to come our way in southern Ohio.
 
Hope everyone else is okay and tolerating their weather......it's just a bite this time of year! I'm a spring/summer girl!
 
Susan
 
Susan Forman
Dewey Morning Alpacas
Washington Court House, OH 43160
740-636-1899
http://www.alpacanation.com/deweymorning.asp
Home of Huey, Louie, and Dewey!
 
 
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Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:13 PM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] What's new?

 

So how is everyone doing? It's been very quiet here lately. I know I'm just trying to get motivated to go scoop poop. Here in Oregon, it is so incredibly muddy that it makes it very hard to go out and just it over with. I hardly mind at all in the summertime when it's nice a dry!


How about everyone else?

Heather

Heather Zeleny
White Lotus Alpacas
Oregon

Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece

Susan Forman
Dewey Morning Alpacas
Washington Court House, OH 43160
740-636-1899
http://www.alpacanation.com/deweymorning.asp
Home of Huey, Louie, and Dewey!

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posted by Chaddo at 5:28 PM 0 comments

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Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: What's new

 

No mud (yet) for me - mud season starts in March for us.  But cold! My electric bill came in today - four times my normal bill, and twice as high as the highest bill I've had in the past. 
 
The alps are doing well even with the cold; I have brooder lamps in the barn that keep the barn above freezing except in the most extreme cold (like today).  My big project lately is behavior testing all the girls who were open when winter began because my boys broke open a gate when I was working one day and visited the girls' paddock.  So far, 2 definite preggo, 2 possible preggo and 2 cushed (thank heaven!).  Got to order some estrumate!
 
Indoors, all  is calm except I'm trying to finish skirting fiber to send to the co-op, and housetraining 2 7-week old puppies (not a fun project in the wintertime).  They've decided that I put down the puppy pads so they have something to lay on while they watch me mop up their puddles. 
 
This month and next will be busy with out-of-town jaunts.  Next weekend is the TxOLAN show that I have to go to on AFCNA business.  March has my daughter's wedding (6th), a Suri Network fiber seminar at Alpaca Jacks (13th), the Alpaca Maturity (20th) and our ABWNY annual meeting (21st).  I think I'll crash the last weekend of the month!
 
Other than that, it's a normal, run-of-the-mill winter.

 
Judith Korff
LadySong Farm
Music to Your Wallet
Randolph, New York 14772 
Cell: (716) 499-0383
 


From: "jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net" <jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net>
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, February 6, 2010 7:57:56 PM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] RE: What's new

 

<<<So how is everyone doing? It's been very quiet here lately. I know
I'm just trying to get motivated to go scoop poop. Here in Oregon, it is
so incredibly muddy that it makes it very hard to go out and just it
over with. I hardly mind at all in the summertime when it's nice a dry!

How about everyone else?
Heather>>>

It sure has been quiet here lately! And I am having the same problem
with mud mud and more mud. It is unbelievable. I can't even get any
hay in here because the mud is so deep; am really starting to sweat it.
Good for maybe another 2 wks and I do not like to let my hay get down
this low. We can't go more than 3 days tops without rain and the
ground never gets a chance to dry up.

One morning we awoke to the hay shed blowing away, after the double
tarps both ripped and blew off and acting like sails. What a way to
start the day and i had *just* the day before been so proud of all the
work I did in that shelter cleaning it up making it all nice and pretty
- all wasted effort, back to a muddy mess after being without the top
for an hour or so while I frantically worked, with my 11yo dd, in the
pouring rain and blowing wind trying to get it back up and covered again.

Never a dull moment.

I've been wondering how everyone is doing as well; haven't seen our
regulars posters in quite a while. Hopefully that is a good sign that
all the fur babies are doing well. Mine are doing good; no problems on
that front, thank goodness. They have been pronking like crazy :-). I
am just stressing about parasites with all the standing water, poop, and
just general icky wet conditions everywhere. The occ good day we have
I seem to always be otherwise committed to appts and such and can't get
out there to round them up and inject them. Would not even attempt to
start a 5 day course of Safeguard in this weather as it is pouring more
often than not and I would certainly miss a day and have to start all
over.

Janice in NW GA, counting the days till Spring, or just some dry weather
at least.
PS new email addy but still me :-). Formerly houckj@aol.com. I'm
dumping AOL.

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posted by Chaddo at 5:20 PM 0 comments

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[AlpacaTalk] RE: What's new

 

<<<So how is everyone doing? It's been very quiet here lately. I know
I'm just trying to get motivated to go scoop poop. Here in Oregon, it is
so incredibly muddy that it makes it very hard to go out and just it
over with. I hardly mind at all in the summertime when it's nice a dry!

How about everyone else?
Heather>>>

It sure has been quiet here lately! And I am having the same problem
with mud mud and more mud. It is unbelievable. I can't even get any
hay in here because the mud is so deep; am really starting to sweat it.
Good for maybe another 2 wks and I do not like to let my hay get down
this low. We can't go more than 3 days tops without rain and the
ground never gets a chance to dry up.

One morning we awoke to the hay shed blowing away, after the double
tarps both ripped and blew off and acting like sails. What a way to
start the day and i had *just* the day before been so proud of all the
work I did in that shelter cleaning it up making it all nice and pretty
- all wasted effort, back to a muddy mess after being without the top
for an hour or so while I frantically worked, with my 11yo dd, in the
pouring rain and blowing wind trying to get it back up and covered again.

Never a dull moment.

I've been wondering how everyone is doing as well; haven't seen our
regulars posters in quite a while. Hopefully that is a good sign that
all the fur babies are doing well. Mine are doing good; no problems on
that front, thank goodness. They have been pronking like crazy :-). I
am just stressing about parasites with all the standing water, poop, and
just general icky wet conditions everywhere. The occ good day we have
I seem to always be otherwise committed to appts and such and can't get
out there to round them up and inject them. Would not even attempt to
start a 5 day course of Safeguard in this weather as it is pouring more
often than not and I would certainly miss a day and have to start all
over.

Janice in NW GA, counting the days till Spring, or just some dry weather
at least.
PS new email addy but still me :-). Formerly houckj@aol.com. I'm
dumping AOL.

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.

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posted by Chaddo at 4:57 PM 0 comments

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[AlpacaTalk] What's new?

 

So how is everyone doing? It's been very quiet here lately. I know I'm just trying to get motivated to go scoop poop. Here in Oregon, it is so incredibly muddy that it makes it very hard to go out and just it over with. I hardly mind at all in the summertime when it's nice a dry!


How about everyone else?

Heather

Heather Zeleny
White Lotus Alpacas
Oregon

Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece

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posted by Chaddo at 3:13 PM 0 comments