Showing posts with label aluminum goat milking stand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aluminum goat milking stand. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Useful Gifts

Along with some very nice Christmas presents, I received two gifts that I requested. Both are to make things better for my 4 Nigerian Dwarf goats.  I've already blogged about the aluminum milking stand we ordered from http://www.birchridgefarm.com/goatstands.html.  I got the silly idea of opening it at the end of our Christmas gift exchange and confusing 5 year old Connor by saying that it was for him so his mother could trim his toenails.  Well, here is the video.. 




Honey Bunny getting her first pedi on the new milk stand.

 Then the next item I asked for was a hay manger.  I gave my son-in-law, Trinity, 3 pictures of hay feeders I found on the internet and told him to take the best features of each.  Wow, did he do a great job.  Here's the video of them wheeling it down the street from their house to mine.

They kept it a secret, so I was not videoing this.
The top opens and it will hold a bale of hay.




The girls and I have really enjoyed it.  Even Kennedy has tried it out.  I just hope her mother doesn't see her little LSU tiger eating goat pellets.

Friday, December 16, 2011

My Christmas/Birthday Present From My Husband

It seems to shine like a diamond.
My dear husband ordered my Christmas/Birthday present tonight.  Because my birthday is January 7th, I often request combination gifts so I can get more expensive ones.  I have found that when I want him to get me a present, it is best if I decide what, show it to him and then order it with his credit card.  He finds that easy too.  I know some ladies get diamonds and such, well those I wouldn't even bother to request.  I'm a very practical sort; except I have goats in a city.  Just forget the city part; I sure have.  I have been searching for months for the right goat milking stand.  I found plans for my son-in-law to make me a wooden one.  But then I was surfing the internet and found this very light weight one that I can easily move,  fold up and put out of the way.  It should arrive on the 23rd.
http://www.birchridgefarm.com/goatstands.html  

It is made at Birch Ridge Farm in Vermont.  Of course shipping from there to Louisiana by UPS was $65.
So the girls and Billy Shakespeare will be trying it out for their Christmas pedicures.