~54 here right now, clear blue skies, sun going down, just came in from collecting final (2) eggs and closing up the chooks. Supposed to be like this - up near 60 over next few days.
Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall
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for us the rest of the week will be in the teens, with negative numbers at night and negative windchills!
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so my kids found this....
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That was the cutest thing ever!
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Everyone who knows I have goats on FB has sent that to me
Still cracks me up
Still cracks me up
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What an absolute little pill.
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took a few new pictures:
it's always nice to have help, Melanie likes to make sure that they got all the goodies!! She tips the hay bucket all the time!
Here's one of Obie taken yesterday- you can go back and compare this picture to the one we posted in Jan 2016
Here's Maggie taken yesterday too!!
it's always nice to have help, Melanie likes to make sure that they got all the goodies!! She tips the hay bucket all the time!
Here's one of Obie taken yesterday- you can go back and compare this picture to the one we posted in Jan 2016
Here's Maggie taken yesterday too!!
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I am so ready for winter to be over 
with the way our weather has been this season, there is a layer of ice under our snow which makes walking a dangerous thing!!
DD and I weighed Moose and Monkey the other day....Monkey is now 28.5 lbs and Moose is 23 lbs-
I think we are still dealing with the after effects of Moose being sick a month ago. Shortly after getting Moose's fever/respiratory issue under control, she developed major dry skin/flakes etc so treated her for mites. Flakes are gone but her coat is really dry, she has some bald patches and seems thin. Eating a mixture of grass/alfalfa hay plus some pellets. plan to run a fecal on her.
with the way our weather has been this season, there is a layer of ice under our snow which makes walking a dangerous thing!!DD and I weighed Moose and Monkey the other day....Monkey is now 28.5 lbs and Moose is 23 lbs-
I think we are still dealing with the after effects of Moose being sick a month ago. Shortly after getting Moose's fever/respiratory issue under control, she developed major dry skin/flakes etc so treated her for mites. Flakes are gone but her coat is really dry, she has some bald patches and seems thin. Eating a mixture of grass/alfalfa hay plus some pellets. plan to run a fecal on her.
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Loved the pics! 
You are gonna have lots of babies
What you using to treat the mites?
I assume you are keeping the minerals out free choice?
I feel ya on the whole winter thing
Thankfully we don't have it like y'all but we got ice last night and this morning 
Goats are staying locked up, I can't risk one of the bred girls slipping on it!
You are gonna have lots of babies
What you using to treat the mites?
I assume you are keeping the minerals out free choice?
I feel ya on the whole winter thing
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Loved the pics!
You are gonna have lots of babies
What you using to treat the mites?
I assume you are keeping the minerals out free choice?
I feel ya on the whole winter thing
we are thinking at least 4 for Maggie, 3-4 for Obie, 1-2 for Coco and Melanie
we use 10% permethrin- it comes as a concentrate that we dilute down according to the instructions.
we keep the loose minerals out free choice as well- they go through the minerals some days like candy! Have to put more out today for them.
we sure don't need the bred does slipping on the ice- that was a big concern when Chester(our buck) kept jumping the fence-hot wire did the trick- he hasn't tried since we installed it!
