rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

The coyote hasn't been coming back around since Bailey has been here. The "local" coyotes are packing back up and starting to run around so I get the impression over the next few weeks he will either be packing up or run off. A bunch of people still want to shoot it. I spoke with my neighbor up the hill who runs a pick your own orchard and she says if it bothers us we should contact her and she'll put us in contact with a friend of hers who manages the local deer for some branch of the govt and he can come and "take care of it" for us. Not sure it will be back though.

I haven't made our appointment to go down to the PD and complete our own licenses to carry application because last week I threw my efforts into getting the family as up to date as I could on medical stuff and getting people to appointments at the right time (and also restarting a kid at school, I guess). I'll do it this week.

 

[rachels.haven]

Avalon kidded early. TRIPLET DOES!!! All keepers (especially nice since I'm making cuts). One fawn with a white pol, one black with a white pol, and one white with fawn spots, and although they are all small, everyone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. I believe Ava is done. @B&B Happy goats called it. Ava wants to take over the herd. I can not believe it.

I walked in after getting back from the library with my youngest to find her pushing in the barn surrounded by her friends, so I shuffled them around, divided off the spare stall and added hay and water and alfalfa pellets, and she got back to work, had the three, then I had to wipe them and do a hasty assisted nurse and ran off to grab my kid from the honking bus at the stop, barely catching it, trailing my tantruming 4 year old behind me (no, I will not get your shoes that you lost "SOMEWHERE in the house or barn" while the bus driver lays on her horn at the stop a quarter mile's jog down the road) as my neighbor from the way back part of our driveway shows up in her car leaving and stops and watches the screaming tantrum part (I don't think she ever had kids, so I'm sure that looked great). But hey, triplet does, healthy favorite doe, crazy tantrumer is now safe in the house drinking juice to stabilize his mood before I stuff him with evening food to get ready to put him to bed, and the older kid is home safe and not being taken by the bus back to school and I'm only a bad mother based on what my neighbor saw, and just a reasonably bad mother based on what the bus driver saw. Hope I wasn't too covered in amniotic fluid and blood when the neighbor showed up, lol.

And tomorrow morning I finish my gun license application and get it in and get to wait for it to get back to me.

Oh! And we had a hay delivery brought in and I put it up in the loft, so I should be set for winter. I may still be buying hay as we need it as the season winds down until it's gone, but we're really only using a bale every week or two with the browsing they're doing in the pens I put up, so it shouldn't be much. 60+ bales of nice hay is an equally nice feeling.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

CONGRATS! Three does is awesome!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Way to go AVA girl ...congratulations Rachael
Looking forwad to pictures....great news on the hay, .........sounds like you have had a very productive day !

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well, I tell ya....my mom was an absolutely horrid woman if ya think that was such a terrible thing...........and we sure didn't "complain" either.....I wouldn't be concerned....life is Full of "moments" with children and animals....and whoever gets to "witness" it....might not "look" next time if it were too "shocking"...........like all the others, can't wait for pics....and really Glad Bailey is watching over them too....

 

[rachels.haven]

Here are some "action shots". Table is not bowed, btw. I think it's a trick of the angle. Spent a good three minutes staring at it after looking at these, trying to see the bow in real life, not behind the camera. Just about drove me nuts. Pretty sure it's straight if I take the pic from straight on and level. I may move hay tomorrow regardless.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Ava looks quite pleased with herself ,........and the kids are adorable. Do you have any others that will be kidding soon ?

 

[rachels.haven]

I have my adult nurser that was supposed to be bred to kid on Friday too. I bred her, she seemed to finally stop cycling, but she has no bulge, is very slim and trim with a girlish figure, very little looseness around the rear end so I doubt it. BUT I'm keeping her off craigslist until day 150 just in case. I don't want a doe to have to adjust to a new home and being a mom at the same time. She doesn't take to change really well as it is.
Today she was getting butted around a little bit in the pen, so I wouldn't be surprised if she'll be going into heat soon.

 

[rachels.haven]

And yes, Ava is VERY proud of herself. She's taking over the herd and going to be trying for herd queen now.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Oh she' ll make to queen, "she who kids the most doe' wins " ...