I milked Adabelle tonight. I had milked her a little right after she had her kids. She had never been milked before. She just stood still then. Tonight she did not! She's a kicker! But I held onto the milk pail and she never got her foot in it! I had to milk with one hand but got it done. I think she'll make a great milk goat. She has a great compact udder with nice teats. I got about 2 1/2 cups. I can't wait to try again in the morning. If she works out, I may see if I can just buy her back. They are never going to milk her. They really need brush goats anyway. Or sheep.
Now I am off to cut wing feathers off all my chickens so I can let them out of their coop for awhile in the evenings. I worked on putting netting and chicken wire on all the fence with hole big enough for them to get through. There have been 4 hens getting out the past few days. They go back in the coop at night though. And I saw one already over in the other garden. So off with their wings! Well, feathers anyway.
Why do the loose chickens always go where you don't want them?
ReplyDeleteI know. They think I till up all the garden just for them. Or put mulch around plants just for them to scratch up. I can see where that one hen scratched away the mulch around some azaleas already. Darn birds!
DeleteI clipped all the wing feathers last night. And got all the big holes plugged. So I will let them out about an hour before dark and see what happens.