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)*

Huge Congratulations Grace, on winning FIRST place in the Goat Show this afternoon!! You looked like a real farm girl out there with your goat "Mon Cherie"! And we all know you worked very hard on learning your dairy goat parts - great job at remembering all of them!

We sure had fun with you at Farm Camp this week, you were a great camper - and you seem like a natural here at the farm!
We do hope you will be able to attend a Family Day this summer. The dates are:
- May 21st 2011 (5-7 pm)

- June 18th 2011 (8-10 am)

- August 6th 2011 (8-10 am)

Allison - SonRidge Farm

Well i have finally come to the end of my farm camp amazing journey...WOW!!!!!

I Fed my baby goat this morning, i got to ride patches again. I cantered up a hill again on patches.

We wet and "dented" some designs in a four leaf clover. I had to sit down with a hair dryer and dry all the clovers. Then we put a polish over it to make it waterproof.

We made some pizza. They put butter on the pan and then a lot of seasonings, then the dough, then they put the sauce and cheese. It was the bast pizza i have ever tasted!!

I milked my goat today...she knocked the pail over so i just got 0.3 pounds.

I need to go practice my goat showing. It is 1:30 and we have a "goat show" at 2:30.

Goat showing is a real thing. Allie(worker) shows her goats all the time. You have to stay on the other side of the judge...You have to use a show collar(chain collar(It doesn't hurt the goat)), You have to know the parts of a goat, and you have to be able to place their feet. Very complicated, but fun!

We get to take home our soap that we made on Monday. This Blog will stay up for a while... until the space runs out. Thanks for reading my blog on this camp journey. If i get to do the Intermediate camp next year i might use this same blog.

First thing we did this morning was feeding our kid goats.

Then we got to ride horses. They allowed us to ride out in the pasture. We got to canter up a hill. That may not seem like much fun...but it was! That was probabyly the highlight of my day. I got to ride Patches, the Paint tenesee walker up the hill. They took a video of me cantering patches.

For our first break I practiced being the "judge" for the goat show. I realy didnt want to get my goat out and they needed a judge so some others could practice.

Then our "chore" for the day was to fix wax bee hives. It was very complicated! I only got 2 done in 30 min. WOW!! Plus the wax was melting and tearing.

Lunch was next...it was fun. We ate at a picnic table. We had a bunch of fun! We laughed a lot!!!!!

Then we came inside and helped make some laudrey detergent. We added a couple ingrediants and wrote it down on a piece of paper, so we can use it at home.

I get another free time later...and we are going to add some papers to our folders.

Cant wait until tomorrow. I cant believe tomorrow is our last day! We are having pizza for lunch with homemade goat milk cheese.

Keep checking in for more post!!!!!

1st post for wed.

When i arrived a baby goat was waiting for me...she was not even a day old. She is adorable!

She is so white and pure! She stumbles when she walks,its so cute! They keep her inside and in a diaper...except when she is outside she is bundled up in a blanket.

There is one more due today but they dont think she is really pregnant. There is another one due Friday.

I fed my kid goat(raspberry) and i also got the chance to feed one of the one week old too!

I rode patches(a Tennessee walker ) by myself and trotted him...it was a lot of fun!

Then we learned how to fill bottles to feed the goat. The dog drank the milk that we spilled. haha!!!!! I learned how to use teamwork to fill the bottles with a funnel...and get a nipple on the bottle.

For our first free time i practiced goat showing with my goat(Mon Cherie).

Then we went across the street and learned about how bees help the garden. Cucumbers have to be pollinated 8 times. Then we came back to the house and looked at a bee exhibit. Interesting.

Then we washed some wool we shaved off yesterday.

We ate lunch and had a bunch of fun...haha...a lot of laughs.

Then I my goat next, i only milked 0.9 pounds. Not as much as i would have liked.

Now im blogging and next im going to help make cheese. Then i get another free.

I have to go now...because everyone says i am taking to long and need to go.

By the way...Sorry i fsome of the paragraphing is not correct the computer wont let me fix it. Also sorry if some of the words are black...it wont let me change those either.

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

2nd Post Tues.

Ok...i am SOBBING wet!!! who would have thought that i would be milking a goat in the pouring rain!!! WOW!!!!LOL!!!! I am pretty happy though...i milked 1.5 of milk and yesterday I only milked 0.9 pounds.

Next i get to make some lip balm.

Lunch was good, nothing ate it...haha... we ate inside at the table...out of the cold.

I got to help feed milk one of the one week old baby goats.

That's about it until tomorrow unless it stops raining, then we can go back outside.

By the way some of the photos i am posting today are from yesterday. They ones from yesterday are the ones below this post.