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He says he'll do it/we'll do it. I'm hoping this weekend. In his defense he got the flu 2 weeks ago and it did a number on his lungs so he's still sick so in theory we've only been putting it off for 2 weeks? And the corporate overlords have been causing upheval with their return to office demands and he's been dealing with that (the people willing to stay and/or move cross country after learning they can work just as efficiently as per their normal remote or at a satellite office are not necessarily the people that SHOULD stay so now they're down to people who can't do the job well or at all and people who are absolute pills and should be fired but they can't because theyre now short staffed and few good competent people want to apply to work under those conditons...and then there's DH who moved here before RTO who could do all their jobs well temporarily on the path to burnout, but he's one of the most competent and functional so he's getting a lot of interviews for hiring, dealing with crappy humans the managers can't fire yet, while trying to maintain and improve software he wrote for people who left, which is his actual job) while commuting an hour and a half by train to Arlington (takes longer and more hazardous by car in rush hour)
Yeah, I'm frustrated with him and his lack of inclination to help with yard work et c. I'm really terrible at doing child maintence+housework+yardwork+animals all at once and i need his help...but I understand some of this. The stupidity rto is...
Yeah, I'm frustrated with him and his lack of inclination to help with yard work et c. I'm really terrible at doing child maintence+housework+yardwork+animals all at once and i need his help...but I understand some of this. The stupidity rto is...
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Reddit is hiring remote. Problem is, he doesn't think they will hire a person with mostly back end experience with a current job in data collection/managment to do front end web development.
He did just get top ratings for his last big solo project and a promised raise and a lot of stock (do not look at stock market ir think about where it was when company decided how much it was worth and what to give). If his manager could, he'd let DH work remote and has already said he'd vouch for DH if he just couldn't get in one day. So they are treating him the best that they can while also dealing with crappery. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
He did just get top ratings for his last big solo project and a promised raise and a lot of stock (do not look at stock market ir think about where it was when company decided how much it was worth and what to give). If his manager could, he'd let DH work remote and has already said he'd vouch for DH if he just couldn't get in one day. So they are treating him the best that they can while also dealing with crappery. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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I can see the conflict... and the BS he is dealing with... my DS went through alot of crap at work with some of those type things... although no remote work and stuff with vdot... but they put priorities on things and sometimes the important things get blurred, or neglected... and your DH has alot on his plate...
Luckily nothing horrible happened to the goats... Maybe when the stuff gets totally dried out it is no longer near as poisonous? I know wild cherry loses its poison when the leaves are totally dried up... wilted is lethal...
Luckily nothing horrible happened to the goats... Maybe when the stuff gets totally dried out it is no longer near as poisonous? I know wild cherry loses its poison when the leaves are totally dried up... wilted is lethal...
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That's what I'm guessing. Its the same poison. The berries were the focus in research papers so I'm guessing they hold it the longest.
Yes, I've watched your son's issues with vdot that you've mentoned and it feels familiar. Politics stink, especially if you're a competent person at their job like your son. Sometimes you're an asset. Sometimes you're a workhorse. Sometimes youre a pawn, or a whipping boy to get to someone they can't touch as it sounded like in your son's case. Guess which today.
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Don't bbq your first fresheners, is what I'm re learning. Just keep milking.
Snooter's udder with S shaped teats is only slightly tough (but she might leak a little when she runs out of capacity, she seems muddy/dusty at stand time). And the other doe no longer leaks at all as far as I can tell. Very meaty in the udder up top though with lots of mammary tissue. The one I bred is still fine. Her cow hocked-ness is pretty much gone. I think she grew into her udder and understands the assignment. Good temperament too. Her Saanen dam did fall apart in her new home around 2f though when she became large, but so far so good. I doubt 50% dwarf Hope will wind up 200 lbs. A large mini is 140 and 60 lbs with a more substantial bone pattern that makes a big difference. Adding ND to Saanen in this project really does make for a more healthy animal, but you have to have minimum quality or you get crappy minis from crappy parents.
S-shaped teats with a slight tough textured skin annoys me and a meaty mammary annoys me (show breeders are now saying that mammary meatiness=muscle=milk in ADGA circles...I'm not impressed). It's probably about time to let these girls go because now I have 16 Pete daughters to freshen and sort through whenever I want. There are many good things, but we can not do all of them.
Snooter's udder with S shaped teats is only slightly tough (but she might leak a little when she runs out of capacity, she seems muddy/dusty at stand time). And the other doe no longer leaks at all as far as I can tell. Very meaty in the udder up top though with lots of mammary tissue. The one I bred is still fine. Her cow hocked-ness is pretty much gone. I think she grew into her udder and understands the assignment. Good temperament too. Her Saanen dam did fall apart in her new home around 2f though when she became large, but so far so good. I doubt 50% dwarf Hope will wind up 200 lbs. A large mini is 140 and 60 lbs with a more substantial bone pattern that makes a big difference. Adding ND to Saanen in this project really does make for a more healthy animal, but you have to have minimum quality or you get crappy minis from crappy parents.
S-shaped teats with a slight tough textured skin annoys me and a meaty mammary annoys me (show breeders are now saying that mammary meatiness=muscle=milk in ADGA circles...I'm not impressed). It's probably about time to let these girls go because now I have 16 Pete daughters to freshen and sort through whenever I want. There are many good things, but we can not do all of them.
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WOW.... 16 Pete daughters..... But that does give you choices....
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Show brerders are not necessarily interest in high milk yield. Having a meaty udder makes a small udder look bigger in the show ring. All that extra tissue cuts down on udder capacity. You are rght about udder texture and softness. As long as the medials and udder support is good, soft flexible udder tissue wil give you a better yield.
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Next year is a kid selling and culling year for the Lamancha herd, so expect some goat subtraction.
I've got a worn out, new to me buck I'd like a replacement son out of a nice doe and some experimentals to cull through and maybe keep something from, but other than that I need to market and sell, less than perfect does and most of the kids.
I've got a worn out, new to me buck I'd like a replacement son out of a nice doe and some experimentals to cull through and maybe keep something from, but other than that I need to market and sell, less than perfect does and most of the kids.
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Mini and standard experimental does were cidr'ed today for September freshening because I was thinking about herd culling off ramps (and also one of them was uddering up precociously so it's time to get her milking) . If I like the udders I will keep them. If I don't I will let them go when most does are going dry and people want fresh winter milk and I won't have to winter through a potentially worthless mixed breed doe.
