Red Raspberry Leaves

  With spring on its way to our little farm, many things are about to happen!  One of them happens to be more kids being born into our goat herd.  With Ellie due in only three weeks, there is lots to do in preparation for the rambunctious little kids!  About six weeks before the due date I start adding Red Raspberry leaves to Ellie's grain once each day.   The red raspberry leaves are naturally full of magnesium, potassium, iron and b-vitamins. This helps in preparing her for the delivery and speeds up the healing process afterwards.  Several years ago, I came across an article about someone giving red raspberry leaves to their expectant does and how it helped with making the delivery easier!  So...I decided to try it on my goats and since, haven't had any problems.
  The goat pen was another job that had to be tackled.  With the long cold winter, I wasn't able to clean that out at all until this past week!  So, needless to say, it took a little while:)
Other things, such as: clipping hooves, getting the kidding pen cleaned, getting different supplies together, etc... are still on the list of things to do.

Ellie enjoys her grain immensely!

The red raspberry leaf mixed with the grain.

Here are some pictures of different happenings.

Patches loves his milk!!  He usually will go and get squirts of milk from the cow and then come over to the sugar house where I milk the goats and get his bowl of food and goat milk:)

Clover and Patches on their way to the sugar house.

A very content cat!

Looking forward to Spring!

~Emily