Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

I'm putting the kids in at night and milking in the mornings. OH MY GOODNESS. Today I got 5 full quarts of fresh milk. It is sweet and creamy milk. Mama gave me a little over 2 quarts. She is my 1% girl. Brownie was second with a little over a quart at about 4%, and then there is Apache and Caramel who contributed the rest. ALL the milk was beautiful. They all stood for milking very nicely.

BUT the kids. OH MY GOODNESS. One of Autumnprairies kids stands outside the door and hollers like he is dying. He was in the barn, but he broke out this morning. His mama barely notices that he's out there, because she is busy eating her breakfast while she is getting milked. She's a great little mother, but she really likes her breakfast, undisturbed on the milkstand. The little buckling, on the other hand, hollers really LOUD. "I want my milk." And then louder and then VERY VERY LOUDLY.

He runs from one side of the milk room to the other outside the barn. Jumping up and down.

Now I am making cheese.

I am doing this while it is pouring rain outside.

 

[Queen Mum]

Goat vision for the morning:

Annie's baby, aka Baby Smurf, aka Eeyore is outside my window running around and around and around a tree. He is so tiny. All the other goat babies are standing by watching him. BJ is standing in his food tray guarding it from intruders. There must be food in it. Houdini and Jack are trying to attract the attention of the female goats by blowing raspberries at them. (The girls are ignoring them.) Ian is napping on one side of the hay feeder while Trump Card is napping on the other side.

Oh, Eeyore is now running around and around a garbage bin and around one of the other baby goats. And Molly the LGD is trying to find 'treasures' to play with in the trash pile.

 

[Queen Mum]

Poor Mama! She has had a snotty nose for several days. She's been on vetRx but it's not helping. She was running a temperature this morning and her ears were flat. Her head was down and she was moping around. And she gets really grumpy! She is eating and drinking water, but she doesn't feel good. Poor baby. I love my Mama. I can't stand it when she is sick.

I started her on Pen G. The problem is she is so BIG that she takes a ton of Pen G. She is really good about it. I also give her Vitamin B. And an energy drench. (She likes that.)

 

[elevan]

Good call. If they get a fever while on VetRx it's time to move on to antibiotics.

Personally I might be tempted to use Tylan 50 4 ml /25# IM injection for 5 days (If you can get the Tylan 200 it's 1ml/ 25#). I like it better for respiratory issues that need antibiotics over Penicillin.

Don't forget to add the probiotics.

 

[Queen Mum]

Thanks for the Probiotics reminder. I wish I had some Tylan. The only things I have are Pen G and Tetracycline. No money for anything else till next month.

 

[elevan]

Tylan helped me save my calf and since it can also be used for goats, I'll always keep it on hand for respiratory issues.

 

[Queen Mum]

I guess I'm going to be buying some at the first of next month. Can you get it at the feed store, or do you have to get it from Jeffers?

 

[elevan]

I got the Tylan 50 at TSC. But you can get the Tylan 200 at Jeffers.

 

[jodief100]

I hope Mama is feeling better. She is such a wonderful goat.

 

[Queen Mum]

She is still moping around, but she is acting a little more "cheerful". A lot of laying around though because it is HOT today. Her temperature is down to normal though and her snotty nose seems to be clearing up. I checked her eyelids and they are nice and dark so I know this isn't about worms or anemia.

Brownie looks like a basketball. If she hadn't had kids two weeks ago, I would swear she was pregnant. I do NOT have to worry about whether or not she is getting enough to eat. She is one well nourished goat. JUST LIKE HER MOTHER! But I can not complain, she also really puts out the milk from her little udder. High fat content and sweet as you can imagine.

This morning between the four girls I got a gallon of milk. These girls are giving milk AND feeding their babies as well.

I mowed the yard, milked the girls, gave shots, and am working on pulling nails from pallets so I can build a chicken coop for my two hens. Mama Hen and Baby Chick.

Oh and here is a very cute picture of Autumnprairie's buckling climbing a tree. He likes to get as high as he can so he can eat the leaves up there. He is quite nimble footed.

The first picture is him reaching for the tender new leaves and the second one give you and idea of how high he was in the tree.

Each time he goes up a tree, he climbs a little higher. AND he is teaching the other babies how to climb.

I just spent a couple hours sitting outside removing nails from pallets so I can build a chicken coop for my chickens. I'm taking a break because it is HOT out there. Here I sit by the window and there are baby goats outside the window running and jumping and playing and having all sorts of fun out there. We have 7 of them. All of them are different sizes and it is really fun to watch them play.

They run around trees and chase each other back and forth and leap up and down. They explore piles of things and climb on different mommies. The bounce everywhere they go. Once in a while they lick the dirt or snack on the grass, but mostly they just explore and play. I also notice that when they greet each other their little tails wag really fast.

Every once in a while for no apparent reason, they all RACE around the field. This is followed by them running as fast as they can to their moms for a snack with tails furiously wagging. Brownies kids always have the farthest to go to find their mom. After they have a snack the Brownie's twins find a dirt hole and flop down and curl up. Annies' baby follows his mom, and they lay down together. Mama's kids go and lay under a hayfeeder. Apache and Caramels babies go trotting off with their moms to graze. They don't nap much anymore. And so it goes, run, hop, jump play, eat, nap and start over.

BTW, yesterday I made a very delicious sweet potato and ricotta cheese cake with home made ricotta cheese and home grown eggs. It has honey in it. It has a sweet crust. It is very tasty. I ate it for dinner last night and breakfast and lunch today. Fairly nutrious. Eggs, cheese, honey, milk and sweet potatoes.