Population Explosion!

Since I last wrote a lot has happened at Outlaw Farm.
A friend of ours got into Nigerian Dwarf goats last year and he found himself this year with three doelings and a buckling. We had talked about also getting into goats so he offered me the three doelings. I built a pen using cattle panels and then built a bit to clip to it using the design I had used for the hen house, u sing a wooden B add board and a couple of bent cattle panels. The enclosure is circular and it clips to either side of the hut. The hut is open on the back so the goats can enter the hut to shelter from the weather and the front has a door which we use to enter the enclosure. We move the pen every week and this gives them fresh pasture and helps to keep the problem of worms and other pests to a minimum. They share the enclosure with the rabbits. I grew tired of seeing then caged and they help to contribute to fertilizing the ground. The only problem we are having is they are having having a problem with keeping any babies alive but we are working on having a weatherproof box that the does can keep them dry and warm.
We are raising two batches if meat birds this year. The first batch is a mix of Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpington. Out of sixteen, fourteen are roosters so it's going to get noisy pretty soon. The second batch are Rhode Island Reds and Cornish Cross, with one solitary Wyandotte. We plan to save a RIR from the first batch and hopefully the Wyandotte from the second batch to add to our later hens. We are not too sure yet whether the Wyandotte is a hen so it may be replaced with a Buff Orpington. There are fifteen birds in the second batch but we will be processing the Cornish Cross very soon, even before the first batch is ready. They produce a huge amount of meat but I can't help being a little disgusted with the Cornish Cross.
We are also now beekeepers. I built a top bar bee hive using a 55gallon barrel cut in half. It is called a honey cow because with the fat body and four legs it resembles a cow standing in a field. A friend has Langstroth hives and he split a hive and gave me half. We tied the Langstroth frames to the top bars and early indications show good growth.
We are never going to be wealthy while running this little farm but the riches we discover while bungling our way through, cannot be bought with money.