rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

Today I shoveled the chickens, ducks, bucks, does, and kidding stall and pulled the giant buckling off his mom. I'm almost out of frozen milk and the good milk replacer won't be here for a few days and no one is bothering to kid so I'm going to have to make them share the milk there is.

 

[Baymule]

Today I shoveled the chickens, ducks, bucks, does,
I bet they didn't like THAT!

 

[rachels.haven]

Scooped them right up!

Here are the goat brothers.

 

[rachels.haven]

I like this pic better. They are pretty.

 

[farmerjan]

They are cute little guys. Are you just going to keep the doe milking and continue to feed the kids?

 

[rachels.haven]

I'm not sure yet. This is one doe that isn't built for milking and I don't feel like I'm getting it all, so this morning I milked her out as much as I could and put the big buckling back on her. I will probably repeat tonight with the nightly separation with some bottle feeding, then am milking for the little guy. I'd rather milk a different doe to feed the little guy because this doe takes so long to get a cup of milk out with my thumbs and pointer fingers doing all the work.

 

[rachels.haven]

This was a prospective hatching eggs. Dan broke into the lab today.

...thank you, Dan. I'm still looking for the permanent marker.

We also "scored" five more than inches of snow apparently. We went out to pick up a delayed milk order as it started and got stuck on the first hump of the shared driveway so we scraped tracks up the hill and drove home. Slippery stuff.

Baby goat weighed in at 1 pound 14 oz today.

 

[farmerjan]

We often use sharpies to mark eggs so that egg could be set... Unless he had to shake them up as he marked them. There is some bleed through of the markers, sometimes it might affect them, but often I don't see any difference in marked and not marked eggs.
Bless his little devilish heart.....

That little goat is really tiny..... but sounds /looks like he is doing good considering everything.....

 

[rachels.haven]

Thanks. I think the buckling is chugging along. The weight gain was a relief. I will breathe easier when he's over two pounds and can regulate his own body temperature. I tried turning off the heat lamp last night and he quit eating again. He is only a buckling, but he's cute and this is good practice.

Dan said he wanted the egg to look like Humpty Dumpty and he wants me to hatch it. I'm willing to try. Now he is loose in the house with a package of tiny self adhesive googly eyeballs to make a valentine for his valentine pen pal, which means we will probably be finding items randomly bedazzled with googly eyes for the next few weeks. But hey, with this kid, I can't get anything done with or without him without a mess breaking out, so that's life.

 

[rachels.haven]

lol.
If you're allergic to wheat do not bed a stall down with straw (or even the baby goat box inside). Just as itchy and slightly asthmatic as last year. Plus it's $12/bale.