Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

DOH! The very nice lady offered to let me have a half brother to the buck I was inquiring about so they can stay together!!! I really do prefer to add in pairs as it reduces the stress and gives an instant friend to the new kid/s. Even if they didn't come from the same place, add 2 or more goats at the same time and they will bond to each other.

The kitten is doing good. I am so over the middle of the night feedings though!!! It was fun for like the first night. Now, not so much. But on the one hand, she is eating a bit more and faster so that is good. I think I am leaning towards naming her Captain Barbosa. She is a feisty, did I say feisty already? little thing! She is cutting teeth and tests them out on my lips and fingers. She will be all cuddly....and then wham, she reaches up with sharp little claws and tries to take a bite out of my face!!! Good thing she is a little pipsqueak still and I am bigger than she is or I would be in big trouble!

Katastrophe is missing her little boys, but she is giving me about a cup and a half of milk, milking once a day. For a 40 lb little FF goat, that isn't too shabby!

 

[babsbag]

The middle of the night feedings ended very early around here, at about 2 weeks. She is old enough IMO. I would put mine in a dog crate with a heating pad under it, a warm kitten sleeps longer.

I have a new kitten too. Some feral mama kitty decided she needed to have a litter of three under my deck. One had gotten itself stuck and was crying otherwise I never would have known. They are about 3-4 weeks old. And that is where the good news ends. They had fleas and were very anemic. One died that night and then today my BCs opened the bathroom door and killed one. I am sure at first it was just play, but it ended very very badly. They are still in time out and it has been 4 hours. So now I have another only kittern to raise. I wish we lived closer.

Good luck with the biting kitten. If you figure out how to stop that let me know as I have one too.

 

[promiseacres]

When I have raised kittens no mid night feedings. They genersll do well unless they have other health issues. Yeah for more goats!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I do have her crate in the laundry room with the poultry heat lamp shining on the front half so if she ever gets cool, she can snuggle under the warm, red glow. I like the red heat lamps myself! But she is usually in the very back or middle of the crate so I know she is comfortable. She is responding to sounds now. While we originally guessed she was around 3 weeks originally, I suspected she might have been closer to 2 originally. Now I am pretty sure. With the responding to noises just the last few days and sitting up on her front legs much sturdier than 7 days ago. Her "bites", while they are "real" aren't a big deal yet. If she doesn't learn to bite her toys instead of me, then we will have a couple of real lessons to learn, but I think she is just mouthing everything cause she is a baby. Once she is taking 1 oz or more at each feeding, I will let her sleep through the night (for about 6 hours) but she is still so hungry and still only taking about 15-20 mls a feeding. Not much.

 

[babsbag]

That is actually about the right amount for a kitten that young. I was thinking she was older. My last litter would take about 25ml each when they were about 3 weeks. This little one won't suck on the bottle, just licks it off of the nipple. I didn't need another kitten in my life right now.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

We just started sucking the bottle a few days ago and she is definitely full and satisfied when she is done so I know she is getting the right amount... It just means less sleep for a little while longer for me.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Wiley ran away!!!

I went to my girlfriends house to catch up around 7pm on thursday, let the dogs out back and asked DH to please let them in when he was done doing his workout. He called me around 9 to say that Wiley was gone. The other dogs were home but she apparently got out and they couldn't find her anywhere. I flew home, drove around the country blocks, calling her. All the way to the school on one side, the train tracks down the other way, back tracking the main road. Nothing. I sat on the porch and cried. Logically I would have thought, 'well, at least the dogs we have had for years are still here' but I was devastated. I fed the kitten and went to bed, and I asked DH to wake me up if she came home. At 4:25 in the morning I heard her bark at the front door and Beaux answered from the kitchen! I ran out of bed almost knocking DH off the bed in the process. I was sooo happy to see the muddy little vagabond! She was dirtier than usual and had been running in the mud but nothing was amiss. She went straight to the backdoor like she wanted to go out!!! I don't think so! I fed her the dinner she missed and gave Beaux and Leaky more too since they were good and didn't run away. I fed the kitten since I was already up and went to catch a few more minutes of sleep. I am still a bit confused as to why Leaky didn't go with her. I understand when dogs get out together, get super excited running together and just keep going. Since I took her to work the day before, she might have heard my truck pulling out of the drive and tried to catch up to me, or she may have gone back by Jesses place since he is just around the corner from us. That is where I got her from even though he only had her a week. Either way, I am so happy she is back! She has just enough Charlie in her to drive me crazy!

 

[Latestarter]

Wow... I can identify! Glad she came back & unhurt!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Thanks Latestarter! I was soooo relieved!

My kittens name is officially the Pirate Queen Captain Barbosa. She is growing well. Today she was licking my face all snugly and sweet. Non cat people would be like"oh how cute! She loves you!" cat people know she was just taste testing my face for later!!! LOL!

I now have a zombie baby in my "nursery". My truck battery was dead this morning when I went to buy hay and feed for my animals, so I asked my neighbor for some help running around town in her truck. We bought grain and came home to drop it off before heading out for hay. Earlier, I had seen a dove fighting a crow. It struck me as odd since the dove pair are usually really mellow. Well I saw 2 dead babies in the middle of the driveway when we stopped back so I went to grab a bag to clean up and when I came back and showed my husband the poor babies, we saw that one had started to breath since I first saw them. He asked me to nurse it back to health. He is the one that feeds the wild birds and while he hadn't seen them, I had let him know when the dove pair started to come to his feeders. He named his zombie dove Hector. He has some bloody wounds (that I dressed with raw honey) and alot of bruising. He easily fell at least 20-30 feet if not more. I think Big Ugly (the tree they fell out of) is around 80+ feet high. If he hangs in and does the healing thing, I can feed him and keep him warm. He seemed to eat a little moistened baby chick food from a syringe, kind of like my daughters baby pigeons did when she hand fed them.

OK now for a Life Lesson from the school of Hard Knocks:

When Wiley says something like...."Hide your eyes and count to ten"....DON'T DO IT!!!! Mr Bun learned the hard way not to play the 'close your eyes and hold out your hand' game with her, but look what she did to Pooh Bear!!!!



Sorry for the rude pic, but I couldn't resist! LOL! I hardly believed the first time she did it, but had to share the proof now that she did it again.

 

[Latestarter]

Now that is some fantastic aim there. What did that stuffed animal ever do to her/him? Or is it perhaps just a general statement about what he/she feels about stuffed animals?