Moses and Caleb are getting along, I put Mo back with them the other day. They were playing earlier. Moses is so much bigger than him now. He seems to look bigger everyday, but weight doesn't always reflect that... I went ahead and wormed Caleb and Will, along with Alana's second scheduled worming. I think she should be good and won't need anymore. I will put her back with the other Kiko does in a few days. Caleb had a higher worm count than I would have liked and he had several types of worm eggs. I went ahead and wormed him and I wormed Will too because his eyes were good but not great and he has not been wormed in forever. And because he is in with Caleb and in the same area and environment he very well could have the same worms. I did not do a fecal on him though. Alana got her hopefully last worming and she is looking much better. She is looking a bit wider and you can not see her ribs at all anymore. I will do another fecal in a few days on her. I also took my baby girl Callie out into the front field where we set up some electric fencing. We put it up so we could take the dogs into a large field without trees or shelters ect. and no other animals. Just a big open field. We have been taking them out there everyday and letting them play and run around. It is so funny now because you can just see it in them, how they are just itching to get out there. It's like they live to all get together and run around. Callie likes to play with the others but seems to like to chase me the most. I run around and she is right on me. She has chased some of the others around before but really only feels comfortable chasing me. And the funniest thing is, she loves to bite your butt. haha She will grab my arms too but prefers to grab my pants. lol Boy can she bite too. She is smart enough to not bite too hard and she always lets go as soon as I tell her 'easy!'. So she knows what she is doing and is ok. Oh and the first few days I was able to get past her or juke her but she is wise to my ways now and it's pretty hard to get past her. I wish you could see her. She is such a good girl. Well I went and got D to play with her and they had a blast for a little bit then they both wanted to go back so off they went. I put them back and they just lie around again. haha Cal has mastered the art of taking a dog down from behind. She does it to D and Badger. She has some uncanny way of flipping them on their back when running and next thing you know she is on their neck. Atta girl.
She's my baby!!
I need you to ship me a hay feeder! Our hay barrel works okay but we have a few modifications to make to it to make is easier to deal with and help the goats make less mess with it. We have an idea for another hay feeder too just have to get around to it. We have to figure out a way to mount our grain feeder too and I need to find a way to mount the mineral feeders we have so I can leave minerals out all the time rather than mixing it in their feed like I have been doing lately. Guess I should have written all that info on my own journal rather than hijacking yours!Straw Hat Kikos said:I've been pretty busy lately and there is a on the "to do list" right now. I did get another hay feeder built. I like this one even better than my other one. This one is really cool. I do need to make a guard on it because I made ti too low. I made it for the Nigerians and underestimated their jumping ability. haha A quick and easy to build guard will fix that issue though. The sale was great as always. Going again this Fri and may help pick up a doe for a friend. I may also go trim a bunch of Boer hooves for that same friend. I've never done Boer hooves and I bet they'll be overgrown.... They all need wormed too.
I am going to build four mineral feeder hopefully soon and another hay feeder. We've been building all kinds of stuff to make the winter easier on us and the animals. I think that in a few more weeks everything will be done and everything will be easier.
I did a second treatment on Alana for the Liverflukes and it's been a few day since that second treatment. I did a fecal on her and she has almost non left. She looks much better now and has already gained weight. He sides are no where near sucken in and you can not see her ribs at all now!! She has gained close to a BCS condition. Her eyes are screaming red too. I decided, because she was in heat today, that I would breed her to my Moses. Funny story here. None of the Kiko does show signs of heat. Their heats are so hard to detect. That's why I just threw Mo in there awhile ago. I knew the would go into heat sometime. Well because Alana has been away for a couple of weeks she must have changed her stance on things. I put her back with the other does, Moses was in the buck pen, and she went into heat. She stood against that fence all day yesterday making my poor boy go crazy!! He didn't leave the fence all day. Well I determined that she was healthy enough to be bred and I threw him in there this morning. It was so funny.She let him breed her and he did but then she must have been confused because she started to mount him!! She was chasing him and doing everything she could to mount him!! She was just like a buck, making the sounds, doing the tongue. It was so funny. And of course Moses did NOT like that. He kept giving her a whack to tell her to stop and he would run but not too far because he wanted to mount her. The were actually doing circles over and over. haha I'm laughing just thinking about it. I have never seen anything like it. I was laughing my butt off!! In the end they settled down and did their business many times. lol That Moses....
It has been raining here all day too. All four Kikos have been hanging out with each other. It made me smile earlier when all four of my awesome Kikos came walking up to me. It was quite a sight.
Oh and Callie came out with me for an hour of so. She fallowed me everywhere I went for a bit then we both went and laid down and went to sleep.
But yep, come visit me, you can see our nicely fenced in front yard and meet our goats and bring a hay feeder with you!
The English teacher says thanks!! Yeah, like I should make smartA remarks---last year on teacher appreciation day, I shot off an email to all my coworkers that said something likeJust wanted to say that I think I fixed all my horrible word usage and some spelling. I type pretty quick and words suffer from that sometimes. I don't go back over and re-read it if it's real long, as my last few posts have been. I do it all the time. I bet it looks so bad when you're reading it.
