rachels.haven's Journal

[Mini Horses]

I might test the doe who had the wonky kids, for personal info as to "why". (Maybe even the kid, instead) If she's pos, explains some things. If not then testing the kids may give info on your questions for any deficiency... I'd CK that before spending for entire herd. It's already there, IF that's it, so -- yeah just deal. Geesh....how's your well water now ???? You've had some hurdles!!

 

[rachels.haven]

Geesh....how's your well water now ???? You've had some hurdles!!

The well water system has been de-leaked to the best of our current financial ability so no excess heavily polluted orange/brown water is being run through the string filter, then it's being run through a UV filter, then a acid neutralizer so we stop dissolving our pipes with sour water, then a softener to take out the limestone used to neutralize the acid and it's taking a LOT of salt to keep it going even with leaking outside barn water turned off. Things are working. I'm not happy about them but I'm not praying for a natural disaster to destroy the house at the moment (maybe somehow just the feed and tack room in the big barn, but not the house today).
New roof is still working. New fence is still fencing (knock on wood). Basement refinish is okay. What WE have done to date still work. (All this after I attempted to move DH to a 5 acre farm house a block outside a walkable town in Ohio, that we could pay off quickly after our house sale, where the kids could go to school and college and he could stop driving as much or possibly ever and actually bike around...and we wound up in a shoebox house that wanted to kill us meant for just two people just outside of DC and Arlington. Man, am I not effective.)

 

[rachels.haven]

Not cache valley. The kid was septic with all four legs and part of the body affected. He's started pulling his hair out and at the skin where it hurt. The vet said it could have been raging joint ill (we dip cords but its not a guarantee) or it could have been that the dam, Emmi, caught and carried a bacterial infection before birth. The second affected other buck kid and weird, brownish cotoleydons and sludgy stuff in the placenta makes the second most likely. The other brother was probably being broken down alive as the infection consumed him. Gross and very sad. The kid was very sweet. Somehow the two small sisters are doing okay do far. Oh well. That's goat farming.

Time to go sanitize the tubs the kid used. Dangerous bugs.

 

[Baymule]

At least it’s not cache valley.

 

[rachels.haven]

Caught Cookie being butted across the field by Summer. She was getting her butt whoooped all the way. Later caught and reprimanded Cookie for chasing Summer's buckling as Summer left for milking and it all clicked into place. Get her good, Summer. And I'll take care of it when I'm around.

 

[Mini Horses]

Ok....glad the infection was just the one doe -- not the herd! You can treat most infections. Sad but, as you say, it's livestock!

LOL I mentioned the water as the first issue that came to mind -- beyond the goat problems at the moment -- since you've been plagued since that move. Ahhhhh.....DH may never move where you want, until he's in a box. It's a "man thing".

 

[Ridgetop]

Caught Cookie being butted across the field by Summer. She was getting her butt whoooped all the way. Later caught and reprimanded Cookie for chasing Summer's buckling as Summer left for milking and it all clicked into place.

Good reprimanding on part of the doe. Erick says if you have a puppy/young dog chasing or playig with the goats/sheep put them in with a tough, no-nonsense doe or buck. Punishment by the flock is more effective than human punishment since you are not always there. Summer should be a keeper just for her puppy training prowess. LOL

 

[rachels.haven]

Good reprimanding on part of the doe. Erick says if you have a puppy/young dog chasing or playig with the goats/sheep put them in with a tough, no-nonsense doe or buck. Punishment by the flock is more effective than human punishment since you are not always there. Summer should be a keeper just for her puppy training prowess. LOL

Shes a keeper. Summer isn't overly punitive, has an udder i like to milk and is a heavy milker, and has decent conformation. She's also the boss!

 

[rachels.haven]

Snooter the mini saanen has begun lead feeding and is at day 145 on Tuesday next week. She is unfortunately bred to Beaul so unless his pedigree works itself out the kids will be sold unregistered. (Snooter dares you to step a foot out of line)

It would have been nice to breed her mini lamancha for mini grades, but my mini bucks were feral then. They've since calmed down a bit so maybe this fall.