2008 St. Joseph County 4-H Fair
Well, we survived! What a long, busy week. The girls did real well showing their goats this year:
Abby won Champion Harness Goat with her goat "Skipper". She also won Rsv. Champion Boer Mother-Daughter
with her goats Cinnamon (the mom) and Roma (the daughter). Haley brought home the big hardware by
winning Grand Champion Sr. Dairy Doe with her goat "Nellie". A quart of Nellie's milk went through the
Auction on Friday and brought in $450. Results on how our rabbits did can be found
here.
Both of the girls also had broilers (which for our fair are technically roasters - monster chickens!),
turkeys and market goats go through the auction. We want to say THANK YOU to everyone who supported them
at the auction by purchasing their animals!
August 5th, 2008
Berries - Lots & Lots of Berries
The strawberries are done but that is not the end of the berries for the season. The red,
black and purple raspberries are on now. The red and black currants
are also being picked now. The Blackberries have set fruit.
July 8th, 2008
Our Newest Additions
25 chicks came in the mail yesterday from Murray McMurray Hatchery in Iowa. 15 straight run
Partridge Rocks that we use as our layers and 10 Buff Silkie Bantams for Abby to show at the fair.
April 15th, 2008
We purchased "Sebastian" at the Supreme Goat Sale held in Argos, IN from Chad Zahner.
He is a nice black head BoerX market goat for Haley.
April 6th, 2008
The trip to the barn Sunday morning greeted us with twin doe kids from Cinnamon. They were all curled
up, snoozing away peacefully when we went to check on her. The one is all red and the other a gorgeous
red paint.
April 6th, 2008
Our Site is Born
Our site is born. Pretty much an empty skeleton right now, but look for additions
as we get to them.
December 10, 2007
