rachels.haven's Journal

[Mini Horses]

Yes, sharing & on line, no kids makes a difference....
My years of dedicated to milking, order demands known.

Same with feeding...chickens, goats, group by group, then mini mares, then cats. Patient if I follow norm, otherwise hollering all over the place...."hey, where's mine??"

 

[Baymule]

I feed dogs first, wait awhile, then feed sheep. Usually I water first, take hay to those in pens, feed last.

 

[Ridgetop]

No one likes change! LOL

 

[rachels.haven]

Littermates.
Dam raised as a single buck probably eating off mulitple "moms" on the left. Bottle fed filled up 3x daily on the right. Feeling insufficient, lol.

He identifies as a Charolais.
And he took to the lamb bar this morning too.

 

[rachels.haven]

Returned Summer's earless Charolais calf to her after milk test. She was SO mad. She called to him ZERO while he was away from him and appears to have missed him ZERO and she wants to go back to just being a milking doe. So out in the pasture I have a 40-50 lbs 4 week old Lamancha chasing my herd queen around the pasture while she attempts to run away and stop him off, doing handstands everywhere, which is quite a sight to see (you didn't think a goat could do that, did you), all the while, Emmi, my blown teats doe that had quads and lost both bucks, is trying to get his attention, offering her (empty) udder, licking him, talking to him. Summer's been the one I've seen feeding him, but yeah, looks like he had two mommies. He may only be down to one now, but if he's insistent he may win and go back to two mommies. Poor fat baby, poor Summer, and poor Emmi.

 

[Baymule]

Bad mom, mom wanna be and baby is confused!

 

[rachels.haven]

Bad mom, mom wanna be and baby is confused!

I won't hold it against Summer. She was empty and her teats get all chapped from all the nursing he does. He works her over pretty good. This morning she was mostly empty and Auntie Emmi was very lopsided and the buckling was running around getting into trouble as usual.