Jodief100--- random stuff and BIG news

[jodief100]

Thank you all. The traditional boy is doing much better. He can get up by himself now and is chasing after his momma constantly. This is much improved from Saturday where if I picked him up he could walk over and find the teat but he couldn't get up without help.

Chicks are starting to feather out.

It was a nice weekend to get work done, I have a sunburn.

6 nets moved to the front pasture and 9 goats are in it with Jack. I will move 8 more this weekend. I have more nets on order. Those things are great for sectioning off patures.

I am sore today but it is a good sore.

Spring is here, I found ticks in my hair!!!!! Jo Jo had one in his ear. Need more gunieas. I was in the pasture on the other side of the creek. Dang birds won't cross the creek.

 

[autumnprairie]

I to had great weather and and am sore, still not done. Is it me or does our to do list NEVER ends?
I glad you got a lot done.

 

[jodief100]

Rough start to the week. Hubby was out of town for work Monday night. Jack escpaed from the front field pen. He is used to getting dinner in the barn so he shows up at the barn at dinnertime. He is not leased trained and HATES car rides. I put a leash on him and he did OK until I got within a few feet of the truck. Then he fought me. I knocked him down, went through the cycle again....... After a few wrestling matches he slipped his collar and runs off into the woods. Did I mention he is 150 lbs? So I fed and watered all the stock at the barn and then drove food and water out to the front field. It is only .4 miles but I don't want to carry 5 gallons of water that far. "A pint's a pound" so 5 gallons is 40 pounds.

Jack shows up at the barn when I get back, so I put the leash on again and we walk out to the field. No problem this time. I then have to walk the fence line, in the dark to find where he got out. I hooked the electronet into a very old existing field fence. There was a Jack sized hole in the rusty field fence. It didn't look like he created it, just found it. So I did a "Bubba" repair, in the dark. I walked in the house for the evening at 22:08. Skipped dinner and went straight to the shower. Dog wrestling a big harry Pyr got me all sweaty and dirty.

All fine last night. I transfered my two broody hens into thier own coop, I have some hatching eggs on order I got from BYC so lets see how this works out. I am so excited! I haven't hatched out eggs in years. Even then I never saw it. We lived in Phoenix and the chickens had free range. A hen would disapear for a few weeks and then reappear with chicks. In warm, dry climates you can do such things.

Ordered 20 "hatchery choice" heratage breed turkeys yesterday....... They will arrive the week of April 20th.

No the list never ends, I just keep adding to it.

Finish Hoop House
Build little hen house for Silkies
2nd hoop house for turkeys
Build Goat shelter in back field
Stabilize and weatherize the barn water barrels
Install gutters and barrels at field shelters
Build brooder house

 

[TTs Chicks]

Dog rastlin is no fun - I hate when my pyr finds (or sometimes digs) a hole. Glad you got him back where he belongs

 

[autumnprairie]

glad things are coming along. I hate you had to fix the fence in the dark

 

[Roll farms]

The only time one of our LGD's has tried to escape has been Edge when she had pups....I think she wanted away from 11 hungry mouths, lol.

I feel your "neverending list" pain....but if we gotta be working, at least it's been grand weather for it.

 

[jodief100]

The only time one of our LGD's has tried to escape has been Edge when she had pups....I think she wanted away from 11 hungry mouths, lol.

I feel your "neverending list" pain....but if we gotta be working, at least it's been grand weather for it.

Jack is not containable. If he wants out, he will find a way. It is rarely a problem since he prefers to stay with "his" goats. I think the issue is I only brought down some of the goast and he is tryign to take care of all of them. Either that or he misses Snowey, my other LGD. I am not sure which. I have put him out in the field without Snowey before and he was fine so I suspect it is the former. I will keep putting him back and only feeding him a the field and hopefully he will catch on. I will be adding more goats this weekend so maybe that will help.

The neverending list isn't really a pain, I like staying busy. I just have too many things that "have" to be done before I can get to the things I want to do.

 

[jodief100]

Stupid kidded last night! A boy and a girl. No problems, dry and nursing on their own in a few hours. You will have to wait until hubby gets home for pictures. I am laid up right now.

I found where the free range hens are laying last night. I found a catch of about 4 dozen eggs up behind the barn, under an old stock tank tipped next to the scrap wood pile. So I get down on my knees to crawl down there and get the eggs and....... put my knee right on a board with some nails sticking through. About one inch of rusty nail right in my leg. Well I pull my knee off, round up the eggs and start towards the house and I have a very irrational psychosomatic reaction. I get really dizzy and feel faint. I sit down. Now I get nauseous. So I lay down, my head below my body in the cool wet grass and rest for awhile. Hubby keeps asking "are you OK" while he is frantically trying to finish up something on the garage that has to be done before the rain comes in. I raise my arm when he asks.

We finish up the chores, slowly. I round up Jack AGAIN! I decided to put Snowy in the front field. Hubby thinks Jack feels he needs to be with the babies.

When I go out for final barn check at 9:30, Stupid has babies on the ground. I round them up, put them in the pen and call it a night.

I am tired. I went to the Dr for a tetanus booster and antibiotics.

I need a nap, couldn't sleep, my leg hurt.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

for the leg

for new babies

 

[daisychick]

Wow! that sounds painful. Hope it doesn't give you problems for long so you aren't laid up all weekend.