FergusonK's journal - Goodbye Java Jewel.

[Southern by choice]

K have you considered treating her for bacterial infection?
I get she has flukes and I know she had the mastitis but the scouring and the fever may very well be bacterial.
At this point it can't hurt.

 

[Ferguson K]

C, she's on antibiotics from the vet.

After 48 long hours Zinnia is up browsing. We're letting her munch the weeds in the front yard.

About to give her a bath and scrub 2 days of scours off of her.

 

[babsbag]

Good news that she is up and eating, hope that she continues to improve. Living in a dry hot state sure makes me thankful is so many ways. Liver flukes and lungworm aren't ever on the radar out here.

 

[Southern by choice]

I just got chills when I saw her up and eating the leaves!
I just cannot tell you how thankful I am. Seems almost crazy to get tears over a goat ... but there ya go!

 

[Ferguson K]

I have never been so excited. Zinnia Zambia is my first LaMancha and our herd Matriarch. She's an old lady and we will be lucky to get just one more breeding out of her. Zinnia has 10 lovely daughter's and two sons.

I know we're not out of the woods but she just took a SOLID poop. She also ate the chaffhaye and alfalfa this morning. Just fed her more chaffaye and pellets. Refilled her Sudan feeder and gave her some alfalfa hay.

She's still a walking stick figure but were going to keep pumping everything through her. She's had two probios drenches and one power punch this morning as well as injectable iron and her antibiotics. Just went to check on her and she ran from me. RAN. She said NO MORE I FEEL BETTER!

Put a close up of her eating because you can see shes still very very pale. Her mouth is so white. It's scary.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

So glad she's doing better! Hope she continues to get stronger!

 

[samssimonsays]

 

[misfitmorgan]

So glad she has improved!

 

[Ferguson K]

Well we are no longer going to Brenham as an exhibitor. We will be going as a spectator. If we go at all. I didn't get to the vet in time today because it has been the week of if it can it will.

Zinnia is doing better. I put her in the night pasture while the girls are out browsing and she's been munching on hay and napping all day.

John is home for four days, and he's trying to get as much done in this time as he can. This includes finding and working on the water line that busted two weeks ago. It took him four hours of cutting, digging, chopping, cussing, and more digging to find the shut off valve that the water company decided wasn't important enough to find and the electric company decided to cover up with trees. Needless to say he's going to be writing the water company a certified letter about our water bill if they expect us to pay for all the leaking that has been going on since their guy decided not to put any effort into finding the valve. We also have two new shut off valves on our side of the fence line. Should have done that years ago when we moved in. Oh well. He's planning on running PVC piping out to the goat's night pasture and installing a valve over their trough, and doing the same out to the horse pasture next time he comes home to help reduce the amount of hoses we have to stretch to water every body. We will eventually be running water to the buck pastures as well, but for now at least we have the one to the goats.

Hopefully we have time to work on the flooring in the bathroom that is rotten and trying to fall through before he leaves again.

All in a days work, and he did all of this while I was taking a (much needed) power nap on the couch with Mason.

 

[Ferguson K]

Since we aren't going, and I had several goats clipped, I decided to get some updated pictures of Lyra.

Blooper!