rachels.haven's Journal

[SageHill]

Double cuteness!

 

[rachels.haven]

Snooter is doing very well on the milk stand. Her udder skin is very delicate. Now that I'm milking I can tell. The blood vessels in one of her teats appear to have burst and bled on the outside probably because the first few days around freshening she'd been kicking her udder as it expanded-in the pasture, on the stand, every few steps. She's probably a riot because that was very painful as it grew. She's figured out I'm the udder emptier and she wants her udder emptied just as much as I do. Her udder is nice and I think she's going to be a nice milker.

 

[Baymule]

First of all, I LOVE the name Snooter! I laugh every time I read it. Second, I’m glad she has figured out that you are the empty bag lady, plus treats and you get milk!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Snooter is doing very well on the milk stand.

Yay Snooter!

Always nice when a FF figures out that you are the reliever of pressure - not the torturer. I milked a Myotonic for a few days just to even out her udder because her two babies didn't figure out she had two faucets. She's a food hog so jumped right on the stand and dug into feed. Never moved as I milked out her over filled side. Kinda wish my dairy does were all like that!

 

[Baymule]

From what I read on here, dairy does are the Divas of the entire animal kingdom. They want what they want, when they want it and it must be just so. Y’all just think you own the goats, you don’t. Y’all just think you are selling them, you are not-they put in a transfer to a better farm. Be sure they take their tiaras with them!

 

[Ridgetop]

And DO NOT EVER MILK A DAIRY DOE OUT OF TURN! These girls know their place in the herd and are strict about it! One year our kids were at summer camp and DH had to milk. He did not follow the order milked as assigned by the goats and milked a lower ranking doe before THE HERD QUEEN! Mass confusion, panic, and anger in the herd ensued! He got the cold shoulder from the herd queen Sparkle for a month. If you have never been cold shouldered by a dairy doe, you cannot understand the level of shame you feel. Other does refused to come out of the pen to the stand when called. When returned to the herd the lower ranking doe tried to lord it over Sparkle for about 10 minutes before being beaten into submission.

Goats - you gotta love 'em! I still miss ours.

 

[Baymule]

Hahah! Gotta feed horses in proper order too. BJ fed horses for me once and told me they were running crazy, acting up and going nuts.
Me, who did you feed first?
BJ, Joe
Me, Joe is bottom of the pecking order, he is ALWAYS fed last.

 

[Mini Horses]

Oh my...SO RIGHT -- NEVER milk out of turn!!!!

There are not enough apologies or treats to be forgiven. They know!!!! They remember.

 

[rachels.haven]

Oh man, now I feel like a bad person. I make them go out of order all the time. The Lamanchas don't care and my 2 ND just had some kind of friend break up so now they don't want to come to the stand together and one now goes with a 2f Lamancha and the other goes with Snooter...hmm, I guess they are sort of divas.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Right now I milk the first one that makes it through the door, lol. Only problem is when TWO get through the door at the same time!

If/when I'm milking the same gals daily instead of milk sharing, I try to observe the proper order.