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[Duckfarmerpa1]

33 degrees out,..... highs out will be 69...too cold for me ...... at least it should be a calm morning doing chores.....Have a great day every.

Whhaaattt!lucky you! We dumped on with more snow last night and DH is out plowing for our rental units. Enjoy it when it gets up to 69*. Lol!

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

I’m in hot water today with my DH, I went out to to barn @ 11 pm to check on my goat...who might have toxemia...she’s due February 2...he woke up and couldn’t find me. He said he was going to shoot my goat..and he’s not speaking to me yet.....we NEVER fight.....but the goats have really been an issue because I put too much money into them. He doesn’t understand because they weren’t expensive, and we’ll never get that back.. to me..they are NOT about money...this was and still is a hobby farm..I suppose I should shut my mouth and take this on the chin...I know better than to go out in a storm...

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Whhaaattt!lucky you! We dumped on with more snow last night and DH is out plowing for our rental units. Enjoy it when it gets up to 69*. Lol!

That is why I left the snow....to be warm, but now this is cold weather and everyone is complaining here, fireplaces are burning, most have the heat on...but it still makes me laugh to see people in Florida with gloves, wool hats and ugg boots on..with a ski jacket

 

[B&B Happy goats]

I’m in hot water today with my DH, I went out to to barn @ 11 pm to check on my goat...who might have toxemia...she’s due February 2...he woke up and couldn’t find me. He said he was going to shoot my goat..and he’s not speaking to me yet.....we NEVER fight.....but the goats have really been an issue because I put too much money into them. He doesn’t understand because they weren’t expensive, and we’ll never get that back.. to me..they are NOT about money...this was and still is a hobby farm..I suppose I should shut my mouth and take this on the chin...I know better than to go out in a storm...

It was my goat with toxemia that got me here on BYH, ended up losing her, but the vet said I managed to keep her alive as long as I did by what I had been doing....$200 goat, $150 vet bill equaled a dead doe and kid...ugh, bummer
I hope your girl pulls through and kids a beautiful doe or two for you .

 

[Xerocles]

33 degrees out,..... highs out will be 69...too cold for me ...... at least it should be a calm morning doing chores.....Have a great day every.

36f @ 7am and only getting to 58f today. You guys are colder than us in SC. Something wierd there!
1 week expected of exact same forcast. Starting Sat, daytimes will be about 70f, lows upper 50s. For a week....but rain everyday that week. At those temps even if my first litter of kits get born on the wire, they may have a fighting chance.

 

[Xerocles]

I’m in hot water today with my DH, I went out to to barn @ 11 pm to check on my goat...who might have toxemia...she’s due February 2...he woke up and couldn’t find me. He said he was going to shoot my goat..and he’s not speaking to me yet.....

I'm loyal to my gender, and usually defend the guy in all situations. But in this case, even I, only knowing you from BYH, would have looked in the bathroom, kitchen, and barn, in that order, before I became concerned. No. In fact, I wouldn't have even looked. But I probably would have laid in my nice comfy bed thinking "if she's gone, WHAT am I gonna do about all these animals?" LOL.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

36f @ 7am and only getting to 58f today. You guys are colder than us in SC. Something wierd there!
1 week expected of exact same forcast. Starting Sat, daytimes will be about 70f, lows upper 50s. For a week....but rain everyday that week. At those temps even if my first litter of kits get born on the wire, they may have a fighting chance.

Yes it definitely has been a strange weather season....perhaps we won't have a boiling hot steamy summer this year ..ya, like that's going to happen .

 

[Mini Horses]

Similar weather here....34 @ get up and going to mid 50s. Sun is out so that makes it better and wind calm, not like yesterday.

Got up at 6:30, thinking to get out and rushing -- then said "why?". I don't have to be anywhere and just who thought it was good to always start early?? I haven't been out yet. Ok, I do need to get moving but not at 6:30!

@Duckfarmerpa1 you need to help DH chill out about this checking on the animals. OK -- snowing. But these animals need us in good and bad weather. It's something we do, check on any sick or expecting. When I used to breed minis & all foaling ready were on cam, there was a monitor by my bed. Clothes at ready to pull on and an alarm monitor under my pillow. The mares had a device on their halter, it went off when they laid out,...I raised the dark towel off the monitor & watched. Either went out or went back to sleep. LOL My late DH was part of it and never complained! With 30-40 mares, it was a "way of life". LOL

@Xerocles when are the kits due?

From the looks of udders, my first kids will start arriving last 1/2 of this month. I'm usually all settled with dates I bred each doe. This year -- the rampant buck was in & out of fields so much that I don't know who was cycling, so who got bred. Line up at the feed trough girls, so I can check your rear ends!! I'm not a fan of this method. Romeo is going to the goat aucton this Sat!! My other buck is a gentleman and waits for me to bring his bride to him.

 

[Xerocles]

Got up at 6:30, thinking to get out and rushing -- then said "why?". I don't have to be anywhere and just who thought it was good to always start early??

@Xerocles when are the kits due?

I get up @ 6:30. At first light, I make the water, food, welfare checks (granted with so few animals it's easy for me). Then back inside for MY food,water,welfare check. I don't do anything of consequence until temps are above 40f. And I don't do any substantial tasks until (unless) temp is above 50f. Why? BECAUSE I CAN!
Sorry for you folks where that would mean you wouldn't go outside for weeks at a time. But, if I had to live in those places, I wouldn't have animals and I WOULDN'T go outside for those weeks. Spoiled? Yes! I LOVE the sunny South. Animals here are for my pleasure and enjoyment. I don't enjoy anything when I'm cold!
Nesting box goes in on Wed morning, kits due by Sat. OK, OK. I MAY get outside a few minutes early on Sat. First time excitement and all. But then again, it's only supposed to get down to 61f Friday night.
Stay warm everybody!

 

[Baymule]

@Duckfarmerpa1 I have a suggestion for midnight checks o the goats. Carry your cell phone so if your husband wakes up, he can call you to find where you are. It also would help in locating your frozen body in a snow drift somewhere.

Going out in a snowstorm puts your own life in danger, I side with your husband on this one.