Crooked Creek Farm

Belly Measurements

2006-01-14T15:40:00.000-05:00

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??

2006-01-09T16:40:00.000-05:00

We think we have some pregnant goats!!

Cookie

2005-10-24T12:37:00.000-04:00

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

2005-10-22T16:36:00.000-04:00

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

Angel had her hooves trimmed

2005-10-12T16:06:00.000-04:00

New Feeding Trough

2005-10-08T16:02:00.000-04:00

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

2005-10-08T15:58:00.000-04:00

Cookie - Biomycin shot

2005-09-21T16:07:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-18T16:15:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-17T12:10:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-12T16:50:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-10T12:49:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-10T12:47:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-09T21:46:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-08T18:42:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-07T12:41:00.000-04:00

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

New Chickens

2005-09-05T12:39:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-31T16:07:00.000-04:00

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

1 egg today

2005-08-30T19:50:00.000-04:00

1 egg today

2005-08-29T15:49:00.000-04:00

Pepto all this week, everyone but Billy

2005-08-28T19:27:00.000-04:00

1 egg today

2005-08-27T19:25:00.000-04:00

1 egg today

2005-08-25T07:24:00.000-04:00

1 egg today

2005-08-24T19:24:00.000-04:00

1 egg today

2005-08-23T20:25:00.000-04:00

2 eggs today!

2005-08-22T21:14:00.000-04:00

Dog Wormed

2005-08-22T19:52:00.001-04:00

Hoove trimming - Pepto

2005-08-22T19:52:00.000-04:00

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

1 egg today & Pics

2005-08-21T09:02:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-20T08:44:00.000-04:00

Goats - Pepto

2005-08-19T15:52:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-19T15:50:00.000-04:00

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

Our Corn!

2005-08-15T21:00:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-10T18:25:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-09T20:36:00.000-04:00

He's finished his puppy shots!

Chickens

2005-08-07T20:09:00.000-04:00

Today, we butchered two of our roosters, Duck and Goose. The kids helped prepare them by pulling feathers. We ate them for dinner. :)

1 egg today, lost

2005-07-22T21:06:00.000-04:00

Penquin laid another egg today. Except she laid it on the floor, and it got stepped on. :(

Hoof Trimming

2005-07-22T15:08:00.000-04:00

Mel trimmed Speckles hooves.

1st egg!

2005-07-20T21:06:00.000-04:00

We got our first egg from this batch of chickens! It's really teeny, lol, but the kids and I were really excited!

2005-07-03T22:52:00.000-04:00

Yoda, the little stinker, got out of the fence TWICE today, and was eating the corn in the corn maze! At least it's the feed corn she's eating, and not the people corn! But still! The little stinker!

Dehorning, Hoof Trimming

2005-06-27T22:45:00.000-04:00

The vet came today to dehorned Cookie and Speckles, and trim Angels hooves. The vet is a woman, and she just picked up Angel, and flipped her over. woah Angel ways like 100 pounds! Don't mess with the vet! lol While I was helping to hold Angel down, she jerked her head back, and got my left forearm with her horn. OW!!! Swelled up really, big, hurt really bad.

CeCe tried to squeeze between my and the barn, but she didn't fit. Something had to give, so it was my leg. Now I have a big bruise on the back of my left thigh from her horn. sigh

I also now have a bruise on my right lower shin. Don't know from what, but happened in the barnyard today. sigh

Cookie and Speckles did very well with the dehorning. Their recovering nicely.

2005-06-26T16:41:00.000-04:00

The kids moving branches.

2005-06-26T16:37:00.000-04:00

Abigail in the corn maze. Do you like her lacey dress with the water boots? lol picture by Mel

Hoof Trimming

2005-06-25T20:22:00.000-04:00

We trimmed the hooves on Cece, Billy, Franny, Deb, and Yoda.

Shadow's shots

2005-06-24T22:50:00.000-04:00

Shadow got his shots today. Will need more in 4 weeks.

New Goats

2005-06-21T20:20:00.000-04:00

The new goats are doing well. The barn yard has been thrown into a tizzy, though. All the "old" goats trying to show the "new" goats whose in charge. They'll settle down in a day or two.

Angels hooves are so bad. :( It's going to take awhile to get them trimmed down to where they are supposed to be.

New Goats

2005-06-17T11:18:00.000-04:00

We went and picked up the 3 new goats tonight. The mom - now named Angel, and her two 4 week old kids - now named Speckles and Cookie.

New Goats

2005-06-15T00:52:00.000-04:00

We went to look at two kids that we're thinking about getting from Todd. sooo cute Little brown heads, one with white speckles on the ears. They are Ce Ce's granddaughters!

Also considering a polled doe, just finished nursing, possibly pregnant again.

Bringing CeCe home

2004-08-14T23:45:00.000-04:00

Duane trying to get the goat to walk to the van

Duane loading the goat into the van

A close up of CeCe

It took CeCe under 3 minutes to escape from her fence! We had to chase her down in the cow field! She didn't want to come back to her pen.

Barn Raising

2004-08-14T22:30:00.000-04:00

The barn frame.

"Whadda ya mean, my saws too big!" As he uses a chainsaw to cut the boards!

YIKES! Do you see my dear, dear husband laying on the roof, using a chainsaw??!!!

Everyone, including Grandma and Grandpa, watching Duane work on the barn. That's me in the back with the sunglasses.

An arial view of the barn

The kids couldn't wait to get inside and play!