Wehner Homestead

[Hens and Roos]

glad to hear that your finger is getting better. Congrats on the new additions..

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Nubians are so sweet! Congrats!

You really need to keep her in quarantine until you test her. You will be putting all your goats at risk. 30 -60 days and test while in quarantine.
She is dangerously thin.
Testing this week is ideal because stress will "cause" activity in any of the diseases, so it is the best time to test.
Yeah you will want to definitely test for CL Johnes and CAE. If she has been with sheep watch out for orf.

Also you will want to test her for G6S. That is a DNA test.

She does have a very sweet face! I do love our Ruby and her kids. I don't want a whole herd of Nubians but I sure do love the ones we have.
Sometimes I miss my Mini Nubians. But honestly it got to be too much with so many breeds. So many bucks, so many lines.

I forgot about G6S!!! I’m SO glad you mentioned it! How do I go about getting that one done?

What is ORF? She was only around sheep for about a month, a little over a year ago.

I didn’t grain her last night as I didn’t want to upset her stomach. She did have complete access to high quality grass hay and mineral. I’ll start giving her a small amount of grain three times a day.

Since she will need kept separate to gain weight properly, I should be able to get her tested an the results back...

 

[Rammy]

Finally got caught up on the posts. Glad to see your finger is doing better and your bull and your doggie. Sounds like you have had it a little rough! Hope you and your furry babies continue to improve and no more accidents!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@Southern by choice do you think Blossom could tolerate chopped alfalfa? That’s what we had to get for Sparkle and CeCe because there ended up being a hay shortage here and couldn’t find any decent bales of alfalfa.

 

[RollingAcres]

Congrats on your new addition! When you mentioned "new addition" I thought you were referring to the kittens. I didn't know there are actually more!

 

[Southern by choice]

I'll message you.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Congrats on the new goat.
Glad things are going better.

 

[Bruce]

AD is going away to college in the fall

You are going to have to plan future vacations very much around her school schedule!

I didn’t clarify all of the kitten details in the post.

Ah, I see. OK, DS and DD2 can get a kitten each then

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Busy as usual!

DD2 had physical therapy yesterday. She is getting stronger all the time and wanted to share a pic of her. I love that our goats do so well with her! (They swarmed her at one point wanting attention and I was steadying her so couldn’t get a pic.)

Musical pens yesterday. After a convo with SBC, it was decided that Blossom was trying to be like Ruby and spiral decline. She is now in complete quarantine with no fence lines shared and no possibility of contact with other goats. She can see them from a distance. I’ll start a thread to chronicle her journey.

Sparkle and CeCe were moved to the baby pen so that their pen could be used for Blossom. We also weighed them last night. CeCe is 39# and Sparkle is 31#. As always, the girls enjoy their walkabout. Took a pic of Sparkle and Jewel following me to get a sunset pic. CeCe started yelling for us and ran to Sparkle when I called. She then acknowledged me. Sparkle always comes to Mom first.

Had to make a new pen inside the doe pen for the babies to be separated at night. I’ll try to get a pic of it tonight.

Also started the process of something temporary to get the chicks out of the brooder since they’ve outgrown it. I have a guess on pullets and Roos so going to separate accordingly and see if I’m correct. Lol

Picked up Panacur for kittens yesterday so first of three days for worming has been started. Disney was NOT happy about it. Wilson didn’t mind.

Caramel got a BoSe shot and weighed too. She’s 86#. She and Knight were slightly interested in each other last night so hoping that she’s coming into heat. Separating her at night when we feed the doe ration since she isn’t milking and may be too fat to breed. Really hoping to get her second freshening this fall.

Maxine was in heat last night, so breeding this morning.

Rock-a-Doodle has started challenging me when I care for that Coop. DH has used a sorting stick to keep him back while I feed, water, and gather eggs. Hoping he’s just feeling his Wheaties and straightens up or he’ll be dinner next!

Queenie stayed out all night for the first time last night. She seems to have stayed home and we didn’t loose any chickens to the Fox that I saw within a 100 yards of my coops during the day yesterday.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Blossom’s thread is under goat illnesses.