Ranch Upgrade 2013.

PR Fluffy 110601

Been busy in the ranch today.  My goat herd of two have been busy clearing back the jungle.  They're doing pretty good.  So many feet per day.  But we're moving slowly, getting the area cleared up. 

I cleaned around the Guinea Fowl pen, cutting off the vines that wrapped itself around the pen's wires.  Then cleaning the vines off the small brooder and the water trough.  I have a lot to do to get my ranch back up and running.  

I'm glad that I have a goat herd to help eat up the jungle once again.  I've did some cutting and trimming as the herd was eating.  Sometimes the buck, Fluffy, would eat up what I cut down.  The doe is still a bit cautious.  But she moves closer to me day by day.  

Plan for tomorrow is to reallocate the dogs to new perimeter posts.  I don't need them so close to the house.  I need to push them out a little more.  No more debating if I'll get that female pitbull from my cousin Leo.  I'll take her if she is still available.  Turn her into a ranch dog.  If not her, then her pups.   Most of my ranch dogs are part Pitbulls, some have more percentage bloodline, than the others.  I'll have to get her pen ready too.  

 It's been two years since I've been active with the ranch due to concentrating my efforts studying Safety at GCA Trades Academy.  Then my venture partnership with the other ranchers didn't work out.  I'm back doing my own thing.  Going Organic is my primary goal.  Raising free ranged, grass fed, or in my case boonie fed goat and poultry meat.  Getting back into the organic niche, especially for my family will be a great thing.  

The challenge is getting up my fencing to keep my livestock on my side of the boundary.  Then rotating my stock through the paddocks and having them graze the grass or jungle over.   

2013 will be a great year for the ranch.