We are getting closer each day to new baby goats. Tina is due in 19 days....
and is now in the day spa. This prompted me to get things ready in the kidding barn. Or at least start to.
The monster goats (last years' babies) have only been evicted from the kidding pen for a couple of weeks, so it's not near ready for newborns. Layers build up quickly and everything has to be scraped down to the dirt. Then we sprinkle lime on the dirt, add pine shavings, and then the goats drop hay and poop. When it needs to be raked out it looks like this...
As we clean the kidding stalls, we move all of the bedding behind the barn to compost.
After raking leaves from the driveway and patio yesterday, the garden spot looked like this...
Behind the kidding barn looks like this after cleaning the barn and letting the bedding compost for a few weeks...
The top looks like hay and pine shavings, but just below the surface is rich composted material full of worms...
Lots of worms....you can not grab a shovel full without getting a half dozen worms...
Here's the garden with a new layer of compost....I'm adding a depth of 6-8 inches to the entire area.
I got about half of it done before it got dark; and it will have a few weeks rest in the garden spot before we start planting.
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