WhiteMountainsRanch Kidding/Journal Thread; Summer Update

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

All of them are gorgeous! Rachel's grand sire is Kastdemur's King of the Hill, and we plan to breed her to Time in a Bottle next year. Looks like we are all related!

So funny how all that works out. Those boys sure must get around! LOL. But seriously, you can find Kastdemur blood all over the US.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I know I know, we're getting to her babies! But I had to show a pic of Camille. I love this goat. AND she's a spittin' image of her grandpa! Kastdemur's Time in a Bottle.

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/6210_sam_1980.jpg

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/6210_time.jpg

My goat Sasha looks very similar to your Camille! And I think they might have similar lines. I know Sasha has a lot of Kastdemur's in her lines, and I think Kastdemur's Time in a Bottle's grandpa (Kastdemur's Audacity) is Sasha's great grandpa.

Not the best pictures, and they're a couple months old, but here's my Sasha:
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/3458_p1010145.jpg

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/3458_p1000914.jpg

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/3458_p1000903.jpg

Awww she is cute! I like how her "belt" goes all the way around. Camille's only goes half-way up.

 

[autumnprairie]

Love the history and the pics

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

Wow I do hope your on the mend!

Beautiful JUST BEAUTIFUL........ Those are some sweet looking girls!!!!!

They are adorable!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Wow I do hope your on the mend!

Beautiful JUST BEAUTIFUL........ Those are some sweet looking girls!!!!!

They are adorable!

Aww thank you! I am smitten with them! They seem so small compared to my other ones! Now I need to figure out what I am going to do with 12 goats and how am I going to feed them all.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

As some of you may have read a few pages back; we recently relocated the whole farm, and my rabbit cage stands were old and falling apart, so we were in the process of making new ones and only had a couple built. The rest of the cages were still sitting on the ground. Well last week a rattlesnake got into TWO of my cages, (the ones with my most recent litters, they were about 6 weeks old), and was repeatedly striking at the babies (I'm assuming it wanted to eat them, but the snake was too small). It killed four out of six in the first cage and three out of four in the second cage. The last baby in the second cage was also bit, but I didn't notice any affects until two days later. Actually I thought at first it didn't get bit, but it did. I won't get too graphic, but the side of her face and neck swelled up and popped. I thought she was a goner, but she never did die. I gave her a bit of baby aspirin and some sub-q fluids and then a couple days later some penicillin. Now almost a week later she is eating and drinking and on the mend and acting just fine. I can't believe she lived! She must have gotten just the smallest dose of venom. It's amazing a baby bunny can have that happen and live while humans, thousands of times her size, die. I just wanted to share the story as I thought it was really neat and unusual.

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

ohhhh gezzz, i am sorry about all those death from the snakes ( i hate snakes)
But i am shocked one little one lived, the snake must have not had enough venom left after strikeing so many?


How can you keep them ( the snakes away) any natural methods or do you just have to kill when seen?

Thats one thing we do not have up here in soggy land is rattlers at least on this side of the mountains...

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

ohhhh gezzz, i am sorry about all those death from the snakes ( i hate snakes)
But i am shocked one little one lived, the snake must have not had enough venom left after strikeing so many?

How can you keep them ( the snakes away) any natural methods or do you just have to kill when seen?

Thats one thing we do not have up here in soggy land is rattlers at least on this side of the mountains...

That's what we were thinking, the snake must have struck so much it "ran out" of venom, and only had a tiny little bit for the very last bunny. :/

There is no way to keep them away, really. If they are on our property we kill them. They aren't endangered or protected or anything. We've dispatched 8 so far this year. Fortunately, they are the only venomous snakes around here and are easy to spot (or hear). We don't have any that "can fool you".

 

[autumnprairie]

That is one lucky bunny, I have snakes here but so far they have left my rabbits and chickens alone. I did have a field rat eat two of my new born rabbits so I have moved my rabbits around so it won't happen again

 

[babsbag]

ohhhh gezzz, i am sorry about all those death from the snakes ( i hate snakes)
But i am shocked one little one lived, the snake must have not had enough venom left after strikeing so many?

How can you keep them ( the snakes away) any natural methods or do you just have to kill when seen?

Thats one thing we do not have up here in soggy land is rattlers at least on this side of the mountains...

That's what we were thinking, the snake must have struck so much it "ran out" of venom, and only had a tiny little bit for the very last bunny. :/

There is no way to keep them away, really. If they are on our property we kill them. They aren't endangered or protected or anything. We've dispatched 8 so far this year. Fortunately, they are the only venomous snakes around here and are easy to spot (or hear). We don't have any that "can fool you".

Did I send you the email about the rattlesnake aversion training for your dogs? I know you vaccinate them, but my vet isn't sold on that vaccine, she says the studies were done with a different kind of rattlesnake and that there was no control group. IDK. Fortunately we haven't seen many on our land, I keep EVERYTHING picked up and I hear that the Guineas are supposed to help too. I really should redo the aversion training.

When my LGD was a pup there was a huge snake in the field, not sure if rattler or gopher as I was too far away, but from the size I would guess rattler. She actually came when I called her off of her interest in him, I was so so glad. Then the snake got through the fence and gone before I could ID it. I am sure my dogs would interface with a snake given a chance. It is scarey.

I am pretty sure that a neighbors goat got bit by one a few weeks ago. Horribly swollen face and chest, but didn't die. Couldn't find a bite, but that is the only thing that would explain the sudden swollen area. It was decided that the puncture could have swollen shut, again IDK. No experience, Thank God.

Just be very very careful