Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

Seems like with animals its always something.

I am very sorry to hear about Houdini. I can not believe how big Ian is. I hope things get better for you.

OK, UPDATE! Mama is doing great!

I have a new baby. An orphan someone gave me. I call him Abraham Lincoln. He is part Nubian, part something else. He is pretty nice looking, though I don't know how big he will be. He has a broad chest and nice straight topline. He is very sweet.

Reina is nursing him and has decided to adopt him. She seems to be willing to nurse orphan babies and takes them on almost immediately if I exclusively bottle feed them her milk for a couple days and then put them on the stand with her for a day or two. She is just a Mama in her heart!

Here he is on the milk stand.

All the other kids are growing like weeds and they just dwarf, little Abraham.

I had to put horn guards on Jealous Bean because she has been head butting everyone. Good old Bicycle handlebar grips!

Let's see, where were we. Brownie got killed. She got out on the road and got hit by a car. She had to be put down. I cried for a long time.
Everyone else is doing well.

Jelly Bean is due any day now. Triplets, I am pretty sure. Mama is due February 22. Polka Dot due February 26, Reinna is due March 14, Kiwi due March 17. Apple Dumpling and Apricot are due in Mid April. And I do not think Fuzzy Peach is bred. If she is, the daddy is Abraham (a Nigerian Dwarf).

My latest aquisition is Lizzy Bell. A half Fleckveigh, half Brahma heifer. Newly adopted rescue.

The loss of Houdini had to just be so heartbreaking.
You haven't been on for awhile either... I think a lot of us must have just been dealing with so much of life!
Sorry about Brownie too.

Are you going to start a kidding thread?

The calf is a hoot!
I saw on another posting about your knee... will need more info... I need to have mine done but don't want to and would rather have a steel brace. Not sure if it is even an option as I now have a Bakers cyst on top of the regular knee issue.
Honestly I don't have time for this kinda stuff. Knee, shoulder... ridiculous I tell ya!

Good to see ya Queen Mum!

The last time I had my knee done, it got better right away. No big deal. This time, it is just not healing well. I must be getting old.

Southern by choice said:

The loss of Houdini had to just be so heartbreaking.
You haven't been on for awhile either... I think a lot of us must have just been dealing with so much of life!
Sorry about Brownie too.

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I totally STILL miss Houdini! Other than Mama, he was my favorite goat. He had so much character. Brownie was a loss. My best milker and I raised her from a tiny baby. I felt so bad that I lost her. It was MY fault for not having the electric fence done. But Houdini sticks with me much more.

Southern by choice said:

Are you going to start a kidding thread?

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Yeah, I think I will. A lot has been going on. I moved in November to this house and am still trying to get things put away. It takes forever!

Southern by choice said:

Honestly I don't have time for this kinda stuff. Knee, shoulder... ridiculous I tell ya!

Good to see ya Queen Mum!

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More than ridiculous. It's absurdly annoying and ruins the flow of my chi... or something like that!

Well, I can't believe it. I have to move again. My landlady, a wonderful person, is selling the house to her grandson. SO for the fourth time in two years, I have to move. I have less than 30 days, I have to be out by the first of May. FORTUNATELY, the landlady has a two bedroom single wide Mobile home that I can rent.

It's just that I have to sell almost all of my goats to move there since there is only about an acre for them to graze on. I am keeping Mama and her latest baby and one of her girls from last year plus her new baby. Selling my goats makes me so very very sad! This year's babies were just BEAUTIFUL! And I have to sell them at the wrong time for them. They won't be weaned yet.

I will have to build a shelter for the goats and figure out where I am going to milk.

Oh my gosh, so sorry, that's got to be so hard... at least she has a place where you can take some of them.

oh queen mum. i hate that you have to move again. and i know that selling your goats is very painful. having to make a big move and sell most of my goats is how i switched from alpines to lamanchas some years back. it was very hard on my heart. I'm a firm believer that when God closes a door he opens a windows. will be praying for you.

Today was the BIG day. I took my goats to the sale. They all sold well. The people who bought them were very happy to get well cared for healthy goats and I got really good prices for them. My does brought the highest prices for milk goats at the sale. The bucklings sold well and better than expected. The hardest part for me was selling Ian. I am already missing him, the big old puppy. He sprayed me when he got off the trailer. I guess that was his parting shot.

Mama looks so forlorn without her BIG herd.

I did have to buy a ewe (shetland) lamb because no one would bid on the poor little thing and until she was sold mine couldn't go on the sale. AND MINE WERE THE next to last to be sold. She has cerebral palsy of some sort. But she is otherwise very healthy. I have named her Petunia and am guessing that she will not have a long life, but she will be well cared for during whatever life she does have.