Ruffles
posted by MMP at
1:40 PM
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My blog about running a Cooperative Household in my home. And Other things. Find more pictures of goings on at Here.
About Me
- Name: MMP
- Location: Northern New England, United States
In addition to my other pursuits, for the last nine years I have run a cooperative household in my victorian farmhouse. I try to provide a low commitment housing arrangement where working people can find a comfortable home like environment that doesn't take all their energy. Over the last couple of years, we have begun keeping livestock and raising more of our own food. We started with guineas and a medium sized garden. Now we have graduated into Chickens, Goats and Turkeys, a large garden, selling produce at farmers markets, making cheese and looking for more.
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4 Comments:
Is this a tribute shot or is she doing better? She looks wide and healty in this picture so i am assuming the former. Must be a sad day on the farm.
WBF
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Anonymous, at 3:40 AM
It's a tribute shot from Summer 2009. Ruffles died Monday. She never fully recovered from the Ketosis. The vet I work with speculates that since she didn't rebound with the vitamin B / Polypropolin Glycol / Probiotics treatment suggests there was something more serious like cancer in the background.
Ruffles leaves a hole in our hearts but we are consoled by her three daughters. She was our best goat. Her grand daughter, Able from this year's kidding, is wholy of our farm, in that Able is our first goat born to goats born on our farm.
I didn't think Ruffles would recover enough to kid again, but I had hoped she would have a summer in the sun with her choice of lush growth.
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MMP, at 12:59 PM
Sheesh. How many babies are in there?
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Vegetable Garden Cook, at 4:17 PM
Amy, she wasn't prengnant in that shot from summer 2009. Ruffles was a wide goat. A pretty, wide goat.
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MMP, at 7:09 PM
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