I REFUSE to think about winter yet...we have to get through hurricane season first...
Don't want to think about that yet either. We've got at least 11 more days before it starts and I intend to ignore it until it happens.
Life is kind of status quo these days... water, weed, feed, milk, lather, rinse, repeat...
K'ili was being my little shadow last night and generally getting in my way. She is a former bottle baby and they have a way of trying to walk right in front of you because that's how kids get their mothers to stop and let them nurse. So, in her walk in front of me she stopped and pooped and I saw yucky, nasty, tape worm segments in her poo. Oh gee whiz! The lady I bought her from told me that she'd just been wormed the day she kidded - and I bought her about a week later - so I didn't think she'd need to be wormed yet. I'm going to go ahead and use Valbazen on her instead of messing around with 5 days straight of Panacur. (what a pia) So, I'm going to have to figure out a milk withdrawal time and feed her milk to the dogs and/or chickens. There's no real established rule about milk withdrawal with a bunch of wormer meds because most of them are 'off label' for goats and a true withdrawal time hasn't been established. I think I'll do 5 - 7 days at least...maybe 10.
I got the newest baby buck disbudded Sunday evening. I grabbed the little girl to do her next, got her head clipped and decided to wait a few days on her. Her little horn buds are practically non-existant and even though I've done this hundreds of times I prefer to do it with a visible target. So, while the iron was hot (literally) I grabbed Dusty, the new Nubian buckling, and worked on a little scur that he had. He had very conveniently knocked it off about an hour earlier so I grabbed his sweet unsuspecting self and applied hot iron to his head. I dunno why he reacted so violently - but he was not a happy camper. It was so bad that he stayed away from me for approximately a half of a nano-second. I just can't pi** him off, lol. That's a bottle baby for ya. I don't know if I actually did any good or not - he was jerking around and I had already unplugged the iron - so time will tell I guess.
All I know about that young'un is that he's not really little and if he keeps up this growth rate he'll be huge. When I got him he was about 3/4 the size of K'ili (who admittedly is not a large Nubian). But, he has almost caught up with her in height...maybe being about 2 inches shy of her size and he's not even 4 months old yet. Granted, he's not nearly as filled out yet - but OMG - he's gonna be scary big I think!
Had to pull a broody offa her stinky, disgusting, stinky (did I say stinky?) nest. Not sure why, but almost all of those eggs rotted and about half of 'em busted all over everything - including her. I pulled the nest out and tossed any remaining stinkers. I wonder if she'd start again on a new batch of eggs or if she's just tired of it yet? It's so much easier raising chicks when the mama's do all the work. May put in a fresh nest box and another batch of eggs. I want babies - but not the responsibilities
Got a few more minutes before I leave so gotta get my office in order. Later ya'll!
I might just have to use some of those bags in my garden. That's a great idea, and I have plenty of them. At the end of the growing season, I can just pull them out and toss them.
