Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[bonbean01]

Sorry your day wasn't great...and hope you don't get sick too!!! I feel responsible now...our nasty weather hit you...hate to say it, but a very cold front coming in and we may get our first snow on Saturday with highs only in the 30s...guess that may show up at your place too

 

[autumnprairie]

Cold front is here now, hope you don't get sick

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh Bon, you know I'm only kidding. I know you would send sunshine if you could. Just looked at the forecast, looks like clear sailing for the next week. No snow in the forecast. It's even 40 right now in the middle of the night, and looks like the rain has stopped!

Now I have to go do a lamb/kid check

 

[CocoNUT]

WELL...???? ANY new lambies yet? I gotta get out there sometime and see the new lambies!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Nope, nothing new. If there was, you guys would be the first to know, don't worry!

The sun is shining and it's very warm, it's all good today. We just sent the Jacob's back down to their beach, which didn't get hit by the rain too bad. The creek didn't rise too badly.

There is a security breach on Finn Mountain with the baby goats going under the gate. I looked out the window this morning and the 2 youngest goats were in the pond area jumping up and down on the big rock right next to the water.. Scared me to death and I went racing down there to close the pond gate. Whew! Our pond is really straight edged, there is no slope so if something got in, it wouldn't get out!

Tim and Annie are still sick, but I'm feeling fine so far, knock on wood!

:bun

 

[CocoNUT]

AWWWW MOM! But that rock is SOOOO awesome for jumping off of!
Glad you're fighting the bug!

 

[Southern by choice]

gosh bridge I'm down for a few days and all the changes that have gone on at your place...

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh so much going on!

GOATS
So I think Tim sold all the Alpines except the one he wants to keep for milk. A nice family came last weekend and picked out the brown goat and her cute little babies. Well, they paid him but are going to pick them up this weekend. So, wouldn't you know it, brown goat gets SICK! I thought maybe it was bloat, Tim wasn't sure. He gave her everything, LA200, BoSe, Nutridrench, Bantamine, some other drug. She had a fever and she was just standing there with her head hanging down. We thought she was going to die, but she's still hanging in there, in fact I think she is improving. I just hope she is better by tomorrow when the people come to pick her up

Then another woman, an attorney with a small horse farm, bought the LaMancha Alpine and her baby. She doesn't know a thing about goats, but she wants them by golly, because she "wants to make goat cheese." I asked her how she was going to learn how to take care of them and she replied "I was going to read a book?" I just told her I hope you have good fencing, and if anything seems wrong, call the vet!

The baby goats have constantly been escaping Finn Mountain by going under the gate. I keep looking out the window and there's another one! So I go put on my shoes and trudge out there and get it and put it back. When I open the gate, another goat comes out. I do this over and over again! Tim says Lencho fixed the gate so they can't get out, but of course they found another gate.

Remember the two baby goats that had the inverted eyelid problem? Well one of them just never healed correctly. After we took the staple out it started to get inflamed adn Tim had to put a shot of penicillin right into the swollen part while I was holding the poor little thing. It was awful. We thought it was getting better but yesterday the little goat''s eye was so swollen it looked like a golf ball, so we did it again. I don't know if that eye will ever heal and surely he probably can't see out of it.

So today Tim was out all afternoon. He found someone who would take Taco, the PB pig. I was trying to get some work done and keep an eye on everybody, too. At one point this afternoon I went out to check on everyone and one of the Boer goats was in the FRONT YARD trying to eat the apple tree! She had escaped Finn mountain by jumping over the new wire fence I guess. Well I just didn't want to deal with it so I closed the front gates and went inside to do more work. I was ignoring the fact that if I went back out there I would feel obligated to feed everyone since Tim wasn't here.

A little while later, I am on the phone with the printer trying to resolve a critical problem, I look out the front window and I see ALL the boer goats and ALL their babies in the front yard! OMG! I blurted into the phone "Oh SH%#$$^& My goats are in the front yard!" The printer on the other end says "Did you say GOATS?" I told her yes, I had goats and they were in the front yard and I was afraid they would go under the gate into the road. So I quickly ran out there and got a bucket of corn and lured them to the back. Luckily they followed me like zombies. So now ALL the boers and their babies and ALL the Alpines and their babies are in the corridor outside that back barn. Of course once everybody else saw the corn, everybody started MAAAIng and BAAAIng, Neighing and cockledoodle dooing, so I ended up feeding everybody up at the barn, the horses, the chickens, the sheep, the goats, the ponies....everybody except for the 7 horses down the hill and the Jacob sheep because I just can't carry that much at one time.

So it's dark now and Tim isn't home yet. What an afternoon dealing with goats!

 

[CocoNUT]

Blasted goats! I tell ya...I think Tim disappeared on purpose!!!
Just think LAMBIES...and it'll all be allright!

 

[bonbean01]

Oh Bridge...what a goat day you had You need a nice time out for a vacation...how about at my house?