FergusonK's journal - Goodbye Java Jewel.

[frustratedearthmother]

Whoop, whoop! Feels good, huh!?!

 

[Ferguson K]

The only thing we lost was some milk. I'm not going to cry over spoiled milk, considering that we had no damage to our property and all of our animals survived the storms.

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Yay!! Glad everything is well!

 

[Baymule]

YAY!! So glad your power came back on! It sure brings it home how much we depend on electricity. Me? Oh I do love my washing machine, dryer, refrigerator, stove, freezer, oven and AC.

Glad all your animals are all ok. If the Trinity is up that high, then downstream from the Lake Livingston dam is going to be flooded.

 

[Ferguson K]

The truth in this is unreal!

Well Rita held out. She gave us four happy, healthy, bopppity piglets earlier today. They're just adorable. There's pictures of them on our farrowing thread.

Simon did not appreciate his biweekly bath earlier and has spent the evening chasing toes and attacking feet. Little turd is growing fast! He's all over the place, even ventured into the back porch earlier. That ended quickly when one of the goats came running up anticipating food.

Zinnia's mastitis is starting to settle. Sending another culture on Monday to find out of the antibiotics are working. She's skin and bones... looks terrible, but she's eating like a horse. I'll be posting a thread in a little bit on her progress... she's a rescue that I got from a friend whose been in the hospital. She was giving something like 12+lbs a day (sometimes 18!) and when she fell ill the goats weren't getting milked. One terribly full udder later and I'm helping her save the goat... I'm a kind soal I guess.

The kids and does got their CDT today. Does got their annuals, kids for their first rounds. I'm a little behind on shots with as crazy as everything has been around here. I've got their follow up marked in my phone. I officially know how many goats we're up to because I counted needles.
. It's official. We have 30 goats. Not all of these are keepers, though. In fact Haggard and Hero go to their homes tomorrow. I'm going to cry. They're such sweet little boys and were our first ND kids. I'll post pictures, thankfully they're going to live with one of our best couple friends so I can see them anytime I want. They dont have kids either, so, these will be spoiled like that. Their last goat was! Hero will be seeing me again in 10 days anyway. He still hasn't dropped and I'm going to be at their house with a banding gun in hand for our nieces birthday party. If he's dropped by then he will be banded.

We may have found homes for the two Pygmy x ND does. It's not set in stone, but, they may be going to live with the last who purchased our Boer kids.

The18th we go pick up our new herd sire and drop off Lilly's buckling in Oklahoma. They're several hours apart, so, when we drop off Lilly's buck we'regoing to get a hotel to before continuing on. Then getting up early and driving to meet T.G. to get the buckling. She messaged me earlier, he's growing like a weed!

I think that's it for now. Here's some pretty flowers to spice it up LOL.

 

[Baymule]

So glad everything is ok with you! My sister lives on the west side of Conroe, close to the San Jancinto river and has 3 feet of water in her house. She's 68, has her health issues, her husband is 74, has COPD, emphysema, heart disease, and IMO they are too durn old and sick to deal with this crap. It's not the first time they've flooded. But she is dug in, won't move and will clean it all up, redo the downstairs and start over. I am frustrated in that she won't sell and move the hell outa there. I don't care how nice the house is, if it floods in rain events like this, GET OUT. I talked to her last night, they had their dogs upstairs, they were upstairs (a real event for both of them since they go months without being to climb the stairs) had no food, no food for the dogs, and no diet coke. The rescue boats had come yesterday morning, but of course they wouldn't leave and are waiting for the water to go down so they can remodel and start over again. Their house is probably worth somewhere between a half million to 750,000 but I wouldn't give ten cents for it and live like that. My double wide is a piss-ant next to her place, but at least it is high and dry.

Rant over. I am still worried about my sis though.

 

[Mini Horses]

WOW-- Baymule, your sister is hard headed! They can afford to build a moat and should.

Ferg - so glad you have power!!!!!

That little piggy was being a really good mom to wait.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hopefully your sister will re-think all of this mess someday and get the heck out of there! Preferably sooner than later.

 

[Ferguson K]

Today we said goodbye to Haggard and Hero. They were promptly renamed Cheech ( Haggard ) and Chong ( Hero ). They will be spoiled! Haggard was already gifted with a collar. I warned them about the use of a choke collar on a goat, and, they showed me the collar has been welded together to keep it from sliding down and choking him. We shall see! I can only pray...

They had Ammonium Chloride, bloat guard, feed, and a few other Wether necessities on hand. They're ready to go with a first aide kit at home!

We're really going to miss them. Hero may be a LOT smaller than Haggard, but, they're only a few days apart. He's just that tiny still.

 

[TAH]

Today we said goodbye to Haggard and Hero. They were promptly renamed Cheech ( Haggard ) and Chong ( Hero ). They will be spoiled! Haggard was already gifted with a collar. I warned them about the use of a choke collar on a goat, and, they showed me the collar has been welded together to keep it from sliding down and choking him. We shall see! I can only pray...

They had Ammonium Chloride, bloat guard, feed, and a few other Wether necessities on hand. They're ready to go with a first aide kit at home!

We're really going to miss them. Hero may be a LOT smaller than Haggard, but, they're only a few days apart. He's just that tiny still.

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Glad to hear they went to good homes.