glenolam's madness - April passed away

[glenolam]

Just looked it up - $53 for a gallon container. Seems easy enough, but I wonder what's cheaper...buying and *shiver* painting that stuff on or buying cheap linolium stuff at home depot and screwing that on....hmmm....

 

[lorihadams]

Check on it and see.

We decided on that because the square footage is not that bad and with linoleum, if you get any water under it or you don't get the edges down well enough then it will come up eventually. We have an enclosed trailer and a friend sprayed the bedliner stuff on there and 2 ft up the side walls and it is FABULOUS!!! we can take a hose to it and scrub it with a brush if need be and it ain't going nowhere! Water doesn't faze it either. It also gives a little grip to the floor when it is wet.

 

[glenolam]

Just a few more hours then I'm off till Monday. Phew.

Today is day 5 of "The Treatment". I've come to wish that all goats behave as my Saanans, Jenny and Katie, do. I love them so much right now....when it's time for the medicine Jenny, who is all of 150# and gets 30cc of DiMethox, just starts licking the syringe. I put my arm around her head and put the syringe in her mouth and she just drinks it like it's cool-aid. Then Katie, who's 95# and gets 19cc, comes over to investigate. I do the same as does she - basically drinks the stuff without any hesitation or struggle.

I've gotten it down to a method now. Fudgie comes into the milk barn, gets milked and has her grain and then I shove 22ccs down her throat. She doesn't like it at all.

She is let back into the goat pen and I attempt to get Opi out without the others kiling her or me in their tries to get outside the gate. Opi's milked and given her 13ccs.

Then I fill up the feed buckets and prepare for mass hysteria. I open the gate, everyone RUSHES out only to realize I've walked right past them with the grain. DUH. You'd think they'd figure it out by now, but nope.

Every day it's the same "Oh we're free, we're free, we're.....hey.... she's going in THERE with the grain!!!"

As everyone chomps down I bring the gallon jug of DiMethox into the goat barn and prepare to man up. Mallory, the 155# nubian that tosses Big G around like a rag doll is always first. She gives me the most problems. So I wrangle her and try not to get tossed on my keister. I put her in a choke hold and get as much of the 30ccs she gets down her throat as I can. By the time I'm done she's acting like she's choking and then spews everything back up. Sigh....

The new Alpines are next. They don't yet trust me and now that I'm subjecting them to these horrible conditions and treatments it's going to take a really really long time for them to love me. Since they're harder to catch, I grab one of them while they're still eating grain and shove the crap down.

Then I go and give April, the other nubian, and Eloise, my first goat their rations. They're OK with it.

But I save my precious Saanas for last. They're so easy I enjoy doing them last so I can breath and not struggle.

6 more days counting today. Ugh.

So this weekend is going to be filled with putting a floor possibly walls in the new milk barn, getting wood chips for the gardens and cleaning up.

 

[savingdogs]

and this tx is for the lung worms?

how much coughing? mine cough now and then often when eating their grain. i should do a fecal when i have $ i guess.

 

[Henrietta23]

NOW I remember why I'm content with three goats most of the time. Donki the nubian turns into a whirling dervish when the dosing syringe comes out. The saanen/oberhaslis are dolls about and do the syringe licking thing too. But Donki is such a beast that I dread it!

 

[glenolam]

SD - the DiMethox is only for the coccidia. Since 3 or 4 of the 4 samples I brought in had moderate coccidia the vet thought I should treat everyone to nip it in the bud before it got really bad. I'm glad I did, though, because with all this rain we've had their area is really really wet and I can just imagine how the coccidia thingies would thrive right now.

I've been super busy the past few days. I put tile in the milk barn, well not real tile, the $0.88/sq ft peel and press stuff. Looks pretty nice too! And I got free wood chips from a co-worker so I finished mulching all the gardens.

We let the chicks out of their cage today. Big G's idea, not mine. I know they are too small and can fit right through the fence but would he listen....NOOOOOOO. So now I've chased ANOTHER one down for the third time, rescued one from my cat Mo who really wanted a snack and found a ding dang SNAKE in the back field (where I was rescuing chick #3). I've HAD IT.

Here's some pictures of the past few days:

the Spawn of Joey ewwwwww

BEFORE THE MULCH:

AFTER THE MULCH:

And...As I was taking pictures of the garden on the side of the house where I had transplanted some irises from the front, I saw it. The Beast lives.

See it?? To the right of the picture? Here, here's a closer upper:

See it now? NO! For Pete's Sake!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! The dang beach rose bush is ALIVE! And it was reborn in another garden!!

I think I need some ultra helpers 'round here to finish this beast once and for all.

 

[Wifezilla]

I was looking for a snake!

 

[glenolam]

 

[savingdogs]

I was too, WZ!

 

[Mo's palominos]

What kind of rose is that ? And where can I get some? I tried to look up beach rose and not much turned up. Sounds like it's just what I need for the fence row, something that just won't die !