Belly Measurements

We measured the doe's bellies, to keep track of who's growing and possibly pregnant.

Yoda 35"

Angel 46"

Deb 36"

CeCe 49"

We took pics of their bellies, also. I will post those as soon as my computer recognizes my camera again. GRRRRRRRR!

Pregnant goats??

We think we have some pregnant goats!!

Cookie

Saturday evening, Duane came in and said Cookie was hurt. He thought it was her shoulder, upper leg area on her left front side. She couldn't put very much weight on it.

Sunday morning, she still wouldn't walk on it. But if she was laying down, trying to get up, she could put weight on her knee. I felt her leg, checked her hoof, and couldn't find anything wrong. She also started having intestinal difficulities again.

Today, Monday, she isn't doing very well at all. She won't/can't get up. She will eat, if you put it under her face, but she's not very happy. She was yelling while eating. She was locked in the barn with her sister, Speckles, last night. Cookie was shivering this morning. We but her in a box, and brought her on the porch. It's so cold outside, that we had to let the other goats in the barn. The went in, and immediately started headbutting Cookie. I took Cookies temp, but it was 96. something. Extremely low for a goat. We did give her a dose of wormer this morning, before I took her temp. We think she's going to die shortly, and we're not sure why. :(

Feeding Trough

Duane moved the feeding trough to the outside of the fence. Makes it a lot easier at feeding time!

Angel had her hooves trimmed

New Feeding Trough

The goats eating out of the new feeding trough we made out of pvc pipe. It's working really well! We are thinking about moving it outside the fence. It's hard to pour the food into it, while the goats are trying to get the food out of the scoop!

Shadow

Cookie - Biomycin shot

We ran to the vet today, to get Cookie a Biomycin shot. It's an antibiotic, that also helps to stop the runs.

While taking the top cap off the needle, I poked my right index finger. I hit a nerve. OUCH!

Wormer

We gave all the other goats their oral dose of Cydectin today. Much easier to push their dose into their mouths with a syringe, than try and make sure they all eat the proper amount of the other dewormer.

Cookie, Franny

We took Cookie to the vet, as she was worse. We got the results of Franny's autopsy:

DIAGNOSIS: Hepatocellular degeneration, centrilobular, moderate, liver
Mild abomasitis

COMMENT: The histopathologic findings in the liver suggest a stomachworm infestation.

Looks like Franny died of stomach worms. :( We had not wormed the goats since the spring as it's been so dry because of the drought. I told the vet that, and that we didn't think worms would be a problem when it was so dry. She said normally it wouldn't be, except we are in a high worm infestation area. Well, now that we know that, it won't happen again!

She gave Cookie an oral dose of Cydectin, an anti-wormer. And we bought a bottle to bring home to five to the other goats.

Cookie

Cookie appears to be the only one still having problems. Her temp this morning was 102.2, which is fine for a goat. :) Her gums do appear to be white.

Barn

We mucked out the barn today. We put it all on the Garden of Mystery.
We spread lime on the floor before putting new hay down.
D moved the hay rack from inside the barn to under the overhang in front. He put up a small wall to protect it from the rain.

Frannie

We check on Frannie 1st thing this morning. She was laying down, glassy eyes, could barely hold her head up. On second check, she couldn't even hold her head up. When we picked up her head, she just moaned, and flopped back over. We called the vet, and rushed Frannie to see her. Frannie died in the van, 5 minutes after we got there. We are having an autopsy done. Won't get the results for about 9 days.

CeCe, Frannie

CeCe is better today.

Franny is not eating her grain. She lays down a lot. Gets up and moves to a new spot to lay down. No Temp.

CeCe's Sick

CeCe was having having respiratory problems. Breathing 16 times in 10 seconds, snotty nose, and a tempt over 106. I went to the vet and got her a Biomycin shot. Came home and administered that.

Goats Wormed

Some of the goats are still having intestional problems. We wormed them all today.

New Chickens

We got 5 new chickens today. 4 hens and 1 rooster from Squirrels brother. I'm not sure what kind they are. Ray said they were Longstalks. I haven't looked that up, but they look similiar to Long Island Reds.

Chicken Coop

We cleaned out the chicken coop. Put in a new bag of feed.

1 egg today

1 egg today

Pepto all this week, everyone but Billy

1 egg today

1 egg today

1 egg today

1 egg today

2 eggs today!

Dog Wormed

Hoove trimming - Pepto

Hooves trimmed on all goats.
Pepto to all goats except Billy.

1 egg today & Pics

One more egg today! Here are some pics of todays and yesterdays eggs.
The eggs with a cherry tomato. See how small the eggs are?

With a Medium sized tomato

And fried! The cutest little fried eggs I've ever seen! We cut them in half, so the 4 little kids could each have some. It amounted to one bite per person! lol

1 egg today

Goats - Pepto

All the goats, except for Billy, got a dose of pepto today. They must be eating something that doesn't agree with them.

Cookie - Pepto

seems to be having intestinal difficulties. So she got a dose of pepto.

Our Corn!

We harvested our first sweet corn of the year tonight. It was sooooooooo good! Can't wait for the rest of it to get ready!

Goat Pics

Angel and her kids (does) Speckles, and Cookie. (from top and bottom)


Cece laying down, with her buddy Yoda resting her head on her back.

Shadows shots

He's finished his puppy shots!