My hammock

I have a hammock that I often hang up in my goat stall to lay on while I read, nap, or just stay for hours on end watching the goats and thinking. Many times my friend and I will lay together on the hammock, kick off our shoes and chat. Well the other day she came over with her two baby goats and we set up the hammock. Well my two youngest babies, as they often do, hopped up on the hammock with us...then my friends two babies decided to follow suit and join the party! That made for two teen girls and four goats. We estimated that to be over 300 pounds of weight on the old and ripped and goat-chewed hammock. We half expected it to fall off the wall any minute...It didn't though. And the goats fell asleep for nearly an hour until someone came out with a camera and they decided they were camera shy and had to wake up and get down. So my mom just managed to snap this picture, but I think it's a great one! Have a good week end!

Goat Family

I thought I'd do a post on my goats and their families...It can get VERY confusing remembering that "this goat is that goat's great cousin twice removed, from the father's side" But I will try  to clear some things up and make it as easy as possible. And maybe we will see some family resemblances!

We will start with Hakama:

Hakama - Picture from Old Mountain Farm 

Hakama is the son of   Old Mountain Farm Obsidian  and 1*M Springs Run Haiku's Kimono *D AR 1995 He is the Father of My goats Matilda and Annika 

Matilda Rose  (Tilly)

Baby Matilda 

Baby Annika - Picture from Tiny Hill Farm 

Annika (Reg. name Mishell Anet )

Now Tilly and Annika Were born on the same day and have the same Father....however they are not twins! They have different mothers. (Now it gets difficult)

Annika's mother is Tiny Hill Farm's Jill and Tilly's mom is Tiny Hill Farm's Varla. Both registered Old Mountain Farm Goats.

Varla 

Jill 

Now Pippi is a whole different story she is just barely related to the other goats, to be specific she, and Matilda, and Annika have the same great-great-grand-Sire, they are second Cousins. Pippi's dad is Jethro Bo-Dean son of  NC PromisedLand SS Deviant  and GCH 1*M NC PromisedLand Beau-Nanza 'VG' 88.  Her mom is Ishta daughter of Honeysuckle Ridge Dakota and  2*M AR East Rivendell HK Tulip's Girl 2*D AR.

NC Promised Land Jethro Bo-Dean - 
picture from old mountain farm

Add caption

3*M AR Old Mountain Farm
Ishta 3*D AR - 
Picture from Old Mountain Farm 

Pippi (reg. name Lila Bo-Dean)

Baby Pippi - Picture from Old Mountain Farm

Now's the easy part...my babies. They all have the same dad - Old Mountain Farm Endurance Son of Old Mountain Farm Stag and  GCH 1*M ARMCH Sugar Creek Nate's
Patience*D'E'

Endurance - Picture from Old Mountain Farm

Faye's mom is  Annika 

Faye 

Faye

Annika 

Leipchen and Leia's mom is Tilly. 

Matilda Rose  (Tilly)

Leia and Leipchen

Leia 

Leipchen 

Now that we've got that covered I want to add that my friend has Tilly's Twin sister Ally. And she had Tilly's Niece and Nephew Lexi and Colton But unfortunately they passed away not to long after they were born. And she now has Zander, Tillys Great great great Nephew!  Leipchen and Leia's "Cousin"!  Though I don't have a picture of him.

Baby Ally 

Lexi

Colten 

I think that's just about it. If I have more to add I will at another time! (That wasn't too bad was it??)

Ace

Here's one more kitten picture. I took this picture of Ace the second he was born! Isn't he CUTE!

Hobby Farms

I just got an account on HobbyFarms.com, if you are on look for "Still Waters farm".

Finally- Kittens!

 Sorry it took me So terribly long to get these pictures! Our camera has been acting up and I've been super busy...lame excuses for some thing so cute - I know.

 The whiter one is Ace ( The boy) the tiger is Gretta. I think they both have homes but neither home is definite. They are both very cute and VERY playful.  Ace is much more friendly but they are both sweet. I'll try to get more pictures fairly soon.
The Kittens will be five weeks old tomorrow. Ace spits out any thing you give him but Gretta is eating her moms dry food all on her own! Independent little rascal!

Chickens!

 I GOT CHICKENS! I actually got them a while ago but I've been very busy and haven't been on the computer much - there for no blogging.

 The Polish is Zipphorah (Or Zippy) and the Mille Fluer is Hydi (Short for my favorite flower hydrangea but we don't ever call her that.) The itty-bitty chicks don't have names yet cause we are not yet sure of their gender. We will be giving the roosters to Larissa at Tiny Hill Farm where we got all the chicks (All except the Mille. Though she does have Milles.)
We (my dad and I) Got White Leghorns, Black Langshan/Jersey Giant Crosses, and Silver Spangled Hamburgs.

Evening in the Barn

 I was Milking Matilda and I turned my head and  something about the way my new couple bales of hay looked caught my eye...I hollered to Mary who was playing with her chick and asked her if she'd get me the camera. I took the picture using a lot of different settings. I think they came out nicely but they are dark (it was late in the evening as I was milking).

 I did some with flashes because of how dark the others were but I really don't like the look the flash gives to pictures

 The babies were watching me through their stall door (you can see one of them in the middle dark one) and wanted attention so I messed around with my camera some more and took some pictures of them through the wire.