Meet Cupcake

(Written by SonRidge Farm)

Introducing... CUPCAKE!
Cupcake is our newest addition, joining our farm on May 29th 2011.
She's a 5 week old mini pig... who is currently living inside (yes, she's litter trained!).
We do hope you'll be able to attend an up coming Family Day, so you'll get to meet her in person.

Allison - SonRidge Farm

Cupcake

Last Day - Goat Show

*(Written by SonRidge Farm)*
Congratulations Hannah, on winning fourth place in the goat show this afternoon!
I know you studied real hard on the dairy goat parts this week and you practiced showing many times too. You did a great job showing Trig during the goat show!
We had a wonderful time with you during Farm Camp this week, it seems like you had a lot of fun - I sure hope I'm right!
We do hope you will be able to attend a family day, I know your baby goat Pineapple would love to see you again!

Family Day Dates:
- May 21st 2011 (5-7 pm)
- June 18th 2011 (8-10 am)
- August 6th 2011 (8-10 am)

Allison - SonRidge Farm

P.S. - Good Luck with your speech today!

I cantered up a hill again on Patches. It was fun. We stamped designs on a leather clover. I put an eagle in the middle. it had too much caffeine. we weighed our goats ( the babies and the milkers, but our milkers weights are the ones that matter most). It wasn't on a scale; it was like a tape measure. Allie wrapped it around their bodies behind the fore legs. She tried measuring us by wrapping it around us under our arms. It said i weighed something like 87 pounds. I think i weigh 90-100.
trig hasn't given me more than 1 pound of milk. the only time i milked more than 1 pound of milk was when i mixed up skittles and trig.
I picked out a bar of soap. Allie wrapped it up really pretty. Now I'm blogging. i would add a second post about the goat show, but I have to leave right after it. The boy baby angora finally has a name: Peter. Allie isn't sure of what to name the baby girl yet. She thought about Precious, Lucy, or MiChaela . I think she should do Lucy or Precious. Ask me how the goat show went in the comments and i can answer in the form of a comment.

I got to do a fast rack on Patches. It was like a canter but better. I scooped poo and tried to convince Mrs. Teague to sing a poop scooping song. I asked, not promised, if she would sing if we danced. I got teased. Stephen showed Grace and I how to put wax in frames for the bees. It's kind of tricky. We had lunch. Liberty isn't making a good name for herself by stealing every one's sandwiches. Today she stole Divina's sandwich; lucky her. Everyone else was offering her food. Stephen and I had to put iodine or something on her udder because she had an infection. Mrs. Teague is a wonderful non-singing volunteer. She has been wanting me to say that. Another angora had a baby, but this time it was a boy. I also practiced goat showing today. Grace was the judge. I better hurry up because now I'm supposed to be making laundry soap. I think I might post a second blog later.

cheese making went well. it smelled like goat. we had a little discussion on it. i said that goat smell is a primary smell and it doesn't smell like anything in particular. we made salve that smells like oranges. i like it. i put some on (my mom will probably notice it before she reads this). I wish i could keep a goat, a baby one and a milker.

We did the morning usual. I tried to go fast on Patches but it's hard 'cause she's a Tennessee Walker. The new baby Angora goat is so cute! I wish she had a name already. Grace and I helped with the bottles. It hurts my back when I bend over to pour. Madison and I cleaned, well, I don't know what to call them, but we cleaned them. It had to do with cleaning the wool from Tumnus. Had lunch. Got to eat the homemade ice cream. it was good, but different from store ice cream. I milked TRIG today. She was good, but when I went to put her back she walked really slow. Now I'm blogging but I'm supposed to be cheese milking. I'd better hurry and finish up here.

New Addition

(Written by SonRidge Farm)

Farm Campers...

Tumnus (the Angora Goat that we sheared during Farm Camp this afternoon) kidded at 6.30pm tonight, and had 1 lovely doe (female/girl). *Pictures below are of her*

Though we are sad you weren't able to be here for the kidding, we would love some help with... NAMING.

As most of you know, I do a theme each year for our dairy goat kids (2011 is the "fruit year"). But with our Angora Goats, I'll stick to just "random" names. Any ideas? Make sure to let me know! (She is soft - cute - & cuddly - maybe a name pertaining to that?)

See you tomorrow, who knows - maybe one of the names you came up with... will be chosen!

P.S. Don't forget to practice the "Dairy Goat Parts" Game - it was posted on your blog last night.

Allie - SonRidge Farm