No goat babies yet
Production:
Janie: 17.6 pounds
Annie: 14.2 pounds
Sally: 20.5 pounds
Eggs: 26
Yes, Janie is holding up so much. I cannot wait to take Yum-Yum to his beef camp. I need to band and brand him first though. I’ll either take him Saturday to Cattleman’s Livestock Auction or I guess I better do it myself. I’m hoping to get hay this weekend, so maybe the auction on Saturday (the only day they can do it) and then hay on Sunday. I guess calling Dan the Hay Man is on my To-Do List for tomorrow. But I digress…back to the topic of Janie and her super hold up today. She’s been giving less and less these days and then one day, she’ll give a whole bunch.
We are waiting on Carmy (Dante’s goat) to kid. We’ve been actively waiting for 2 weeks and still no babies. Her tail is about to fall off and her pin bones can’t get any looser and her bag is huge and her vulva is gaping open (you could drive a toy Buick up there). Poor girl. She is as round as a beach ball. The last time she kidded, over a year ago, she had 6 babies. Only two survived. We have been locking her in the milking shed at night just to keep her safe. I thought she was in labor today, but I think she was just very uncomfortable.
There is a mama hen under the goat stanchion setting on a nest. Yesterday the peeps starting coming out. Yesterday there were 2. This afternoon there are 4. She still has 5 more eggs to hatch. I hope they hatch tonight. This morning, we couldn’t stand not knowing how many chicks she had. We lifted the goat stanchion off so we could have easier access to her. She tried to kill Dante’s glove. I managed to pick her up and we saw 3 peeps this morning. She was very angry. I asked Dante, “I thought we weren’t going to interfere?” He said, “That was yesterday.” This afternoon, she had taken them out for a little walk and we saw 4. Yeah. She went back to setting on the others that have not hatched yet. I hope we get all 9 hatched.
After afternoon milking, we went to Frontier for dinner. Andre drove us both ways. He did really well. He had to drive home in the dark. I’ve not driven with him in the dark before. I’m proud of him. He remembered to dim his brights anytime we met another car.
We got home to our dog, Bear, being out and me having to cruise the neighborhood for him. I found him. Now he is locked in a shed; and tomorrow, we will try to find the short in the electric fence.
Well, it’s my second day of eating food again after my 2-week milk-fast (actually I was only drinking milk for 2 weeks- no food). I really like to chew.The bacon, green-chile, cheeseburger was very good tonight.
Buttercup and I went for a morning walk this morning. We went 1.94 miles in 30:52 minutes with an average pace of 15:52/minute/miles. We’ll do it again in the morning. Hopefully I get started on time tomorrow, 5:45 AM.
I’ve done it! I’ve completed one day of my goal of blogging. Goodnight.