Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

UPDATE: October, 2015

Had to sell most of my herd. I now have Mama, her daughter, Margaret, Last year's daughter, Apricot, Bonnie, her granddaughter. and Apricot's baby from this year. Apricot has a surprise baby. Just before I sold Ian, he bred her and she had Bubblegum Freddy. He looks to be the spittin' image of his grampa, Houdini.

And he acts just like him too. A budding escape artist with a big attitude. He challenges Rex, the head dog to head butting contests every chance he gets. Freddy stands about up to Rex's shoulder. Rex weighs about 50 pounds to Freddy's 10 pounds. He also challenges my 85 pound lab to the occassional head butting contest but Goofy just laughs at him.

Here is Rex.

 

[Latestarter]

Good to see you back posting. Happy you have a Houdini wannabe/replacement. Sorry you had to sell most of your herd. What ever happened to the lamb you bought? I'm assuming it didn't make it... Are you still in the previous landlord's trailer or have you found a better place to settle?

 

[goatgurl]

good to see you back Queen Mum, i was just wondering about the other day. I'm with latestarter, have you settled somewhere that you're happy with?

 

[Southern by choice]

Queen Mum! So strange... I too have been off site for awhile and I pop in and saw you had posted! Great update... I say strange because just YESTERDAY I was talking to my DH about Houdini. Telling him all you had told us about his amazing antics and then the loss of him. Still makes me sad. Amazing the things that stick in your head and the people and animals behind those thoughts.

Wishing you well as always.

 

[bonbean01]

Good to hear from you!!!!! And I also get a chuckle time to time remembering Houdini and his antics

 

[Queen Mum]

I am still in the trailer. PACKED in. My truck is still not working and I won't be moving any time soon. The cost is just too high.

Boy, do I miss Houdini. Freddy is so much like him in so many ways. I like that little guy. He is a load of fun to watch. He decided to have a duel with Mama yesterday. He was leaping around like a goat on a pogo stick. Mama was very gentle with him. When he realized he couldn't out fight her, he took up with Evelyn. She trounced him several times. He laid down in frustration and took a nap.

Peter was having a tough time because Mama kept telling him he wasn't a goat and he was sure he was a goat. A neighbor girl, about 13, came by and fell in love with him, so I gave Peter to her. Peter likes his new home. The young lady had a pure white calf, who needed a buddy. Peter and the calf, (named Re-Pete) are the best of buddies and go everywhere together, eat together, sleep together, graze together and are inseparable.


Bonny, Peter's goat pal missed him for a while but is fine now. She hangs out with Margaret and Evelyn.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

So kind of you to give Peter to that young lady!

 

[Queen Mum]

Wow! Has it been that LONG? Ten Months? I only have one of my original goats. Mama. She's getting pretty old now. I think she's about 13.
She's still giving milk from her last kid who was born in March or Aprill of 2014. AND Margaret is still trying to nurse on her mother. The shame of it!

I need babies. Mama needs to get bred. So I spent $250 and bought a beautiful purebred Alpine buckling. Bonzai. from Maple Grove in Fayetteville Arkansas. He is Gorgeous. And a sweetheart. I am registering him today. He is cream colored with coffee colored legs, dorsal stripe, belly and face. He's about 5 months old. His mother has a beautiful udder. The girls really like him and he has been flirting with Bonnie. One of my does who has had pink bottom.

Tragedy has stricken my farm twice this last month. First there was Buddy, then my lovely black lab Goofy has heart worms. I have been giving him preventative, but missed a couple months and the preventative was not fully effective in the first place. Apparently some vets use ivermec as a preventative, which is NOT fully effective. It only kills the immature larvae and not for a full month. GET THE LONG TERM SHOTS, people.

The cost of treatment is WAY out of my league. I've started a gofundme page and hope it works. But if not, my baby is toast. The treatment is nearly $1900.

 

[babsbag]

Link to the page? Maybe it isn't allowed on here but if not please PM me.

I think all heartworm preventative my vet sells is Ivermectin. Never heard of a long term shot. ???

 

[Queen Mum]

IVERMECTIN doesn't even work for a full month. AND it only works on the immature larvae, not the mature critters. That's why my dog now has heartworm. There is a shot that works for a full 6 months.