poor icecream.
yeah this grass is crazy, the goats arnt moving quite as fast as i thought they would LOL! there making progress...but not all that quickly.
thinking i need a lawn mower...or a market lamb.
today however has been a ugh day.
whent in to clean gimpy and the lav guinea out and gimpy had gotten himself stuck, twisted his good leg out of place...
I put him down and moved the lavender guinea into the coop...it made no sense to let him sufer aother day, he didnt eat this monrning and thelavneder keet was trying to peck at him once he got stuck.
didnt think id be able to do it...
but i did.
and mum just let me now that they put charlie to sleep...
hed gone back down hill this morning and theyd taken him back in for fluids today and once again antibiotics all day an by this afternoon hed perked up a bit, but hed started panting inscessanlty and he was bloated...
the vet told them the next step would be $1000 in an ultrasound and liver biopsy...all those would have done would confirm or deny the existence of a tumor or abcess...They wouldnt have given a efinitive reason for the massive infection and they wouldnt have given the specialist any more answers than "hes got cancer..." or "hes not got cancer" he would have simply been put in a kennel in ICU kept on fluids and anitbiotics for however long and left to stress...
the antibitocis had perked him up but realy one nothign to effect the infection, and the other type they tried today didnt make an edge either...whatever was causing the ifnection jsut wasnt responing to anitbiotics and if they couldnt get the infection under control theres no way they could have done anything else either.
dad and my brother sat with him when he was put to sleep...
TMI ALERT
after he took his last breath he evacuated his bowels...aparently it smelt like DEATH...it was black blood, clots and what dad could only descirbe as rotting flesh...
his insides had literally been decaying...
even had they pai thousands to have him looke at by the specialist....given the state his insies werein...there would have been NOHTING anyone could have done to repair the amage.
im personally thinking a virus similarto parvo might be at fault, where he would have picked it up i ont know, and in a healthy adult dog parvo is nothing, oesnt even give em a tummy ache...but in a dog with a compromised immune system, parvo would ravage the immune system just like it would a young pup.
but thats ust a theory.
Chalrlie is now at peace, we can all mourn his passing and move on to celebrate his life.
otherwise, my house is clean, made home made febreeze today and it works like a charm (1/8 cup your fave fabric softner, 2 tablespoons of baking soda an hot water to fill, lid on, shake shake shake and spray. shake wel before each use.)
the lavender guinea is in the main coop...now i just have to hope the others dont eat him...
the thing i was dreading with gimpy is done andover with and hes no longer suffering...
i gave the babies their first clipper session today (that whent over like a fart in church lol) but its done for now...
and i gave ruby the WORST haircut ever...
she rolledin something gross (likely duck poop)followed by something sticky...i couldnt get it all out so i had to shave off almost all her tail and all of both her back ugg boots...so shes realy looking rather funny right now. its just hair, itl grow back and she realy doesnt give a damn but still she wasjust starting to look all nice and plush again :/
ive got to dose the pups and ruby with dewormer again tongiht and tomorrow...(routein stuff)
when i do the 8 week dewormer ill deworm dozer and jasper and the cats too...
need to pick up a bottle of ivomec at some point and will probbaly need another bottle of safeguard before its time to deworm the goats again...
right now the rest of the ay brings dewormer...me figuring out how i want to prep this fish, and whatevers on tv...
tomorrow afternoon brings fresh bedding for the ducks geese and guineas, and weed wacking of the fenceline...
and friday im hoping to get the rest of the gourds scrubbed...
I wish the darn stuff was edible - we could eat well forever on what's in the backyard alone! The 'good' news is, you can't weed whack the stuff down, you have to dig up the roots, so I officially can't do it and must delegate the task to one of the guys 
Have fun cleaning today! I have to run errands today - the tags for the MH and car are due (which means it's almost my birthday - Yay. Another year older and deeper in debt 
) and pick up some pint and a half sized canning jars at the store - they are having a buy 2 get one free sale at the 'big name' store here. It will be nice to get away for a while, as Ice Cream has hit her cycle again - started bellowing at 8am, and hasn't quit yet :/ It is annoying to listen to, but I don't worry about the neighbors - this is payback for their dog barking at all hours of the day and night, incessantly 
