***Dreaming of Goat's 4-H Goat Leasing Journal***

[glenolam]

Congratulations to all of you! I hope you get to have some of your own someday! Great work!

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

Thanks!!!!!! I REALLY want goats after playing with 6 spunky little baby goats!!!! Who wouldn't? Oh wait, WEIRDOS

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

3/19/11
It's kind of late, but I'll write this before I forget!
I worked with Almond Joy for a little while.... I used my new goat collar and it was actually really nice to use! She's doing very well, and is due sometime in May, I'm thinking early-mid may, but I'm not quite sure. I brushed her a little and she seemed to enjoy it. I can't wait until she gets her udder...... Debbie (Her mom) had a great udder, so I hope she passed it on to her I even drew a picture of her with her udder. I think they are only going to keep Debbie for milking, and then get rid of Debbie since she's now too old to breed and is retired.

PS... Joy now has a red number tag on her collar, and she is number "9" It might sound stupid, but I'm really excited about it!

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

Here's my hand-drawn picture Not the greatest artist in the world

 

[theawesomefowl]

Guess what--I'm probably going to get a bottle buckling (and either sheep or another goat) in a few weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!! My dad said I could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and nice picture, Dreaming of Goats! Your goats are adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

Thanks, and yes they are adorable

3/26/2011
We gave Almond Joy her CD/T shot since it's a month until she kids, about. I gave it sub-q and it was actually quite interesting and not that hard at all!!! We gave it in her armpit. After that, I tried to give Pi, the alpine oberhasli cross, a shot of CD/T but couldn't see what I was doing so the owner of the farm just did it I walked her around a bit on a leash, and she's better than my dog on the leash! Then, since I bought her 2 horse treats, I gave her one, and she nibbled on one a little, but I think she was full since she had quite a bit of hay. She's starting to get quite fat, too!!! I think I'm going to have one of my 4-H Projects be on how to give a goat a shot sub-q!!!!! That'll be a good project, I believe. What do you guys think?

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

4/19 (I think)

We went and worked with the goat. We picked up a new cow (Samuel Adams) and the next day he bought another one that I will be showing!!!!! They're for veal, and he's a red holstein or jersey (We aren't sure) His name is Budweiser, and he's still getting used to the halter. He's fine standing with it, it's the leading that needs a lot of work!!!!!! Joy is fine, and is bagging up quite a bit!

4/22

I went to shave Joy today, and she is getting bigger, and her udder is even fuller!!!!! The farm owner thinks she's gonna have a single, since she isn't too big, but who knows! I worked with her and she's doing very well! First, we ran the 7 "Newbie" goats (To freshening/milking) through the milking process-Without milking!- to get them used to the environment/system.

After that we pulled out the new (To us!) clippers, and the two trimmers. The clippers need a bigger comb, since they were pretty much shaved to the skin (The goats ) So they were all black with a brown head. It looked really bad, but at least they got more used to it, and we gt some practice in. Next time we need to give all 15-18 does dairy trims, which should be fun! I also worked with the calf on the halter.

 

[Dreaming Of Goats]

6/15/11
Wow I haven't been here in a while.... Joy kidded to a beautiful single doeling, I named her SNICKERS, but She died. The whole baby goat herd fell to enterotoxemia even though we did vaccinate against it, something didn't work She was a beautiful purebred oberhasli doe for the week and a half she was alive with the whitest ears ever (On the inside of them) which Joy has too. So, now I'm only going to be showing Joy for this year to "honor" Snicker's place in the show circuit which she would have had if she hadn't died

On a better note, she's milking like CRAZY, and is becoming an easy milker for me Bud the cow is very halter- trained and loves to go on walks now to get out of their pen. Thought you guys would like to know

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

I'm so sorry you lost the doeling

I think what you are doing in general is very cool though and you should be proud of yourself.

 

[ksalvagno]

Sorry about your doeling.