Goats&moregoats: KickinUpDust Farm Journal

Sorry got some double pictures, don't know how. That is also Izzy my wether to busy eating to look at camera.

Things are a little crazy here. Have a goat that is showing the pre labor signs and by my records she shouldn't be. Once again goats throwing me off? Seems they love to do that!. We have puffy lady parts and mucus discharge on tail. So I spent part of Thursday moving a small chain link dog pen into the goat barn to separate her and her life time buddy from the others. Checking on her twice a day.
Some might say these pics are graphic. You can see the goop on tail.


Confirmed my Poppit is definitely expecting(hoping it's a single). She will be a 11 months when she delivers, but you can see from pics how tiny she is and why I did not want to breed her this year. White & Black.

Trying to get the back half of pasture hotwired so as I can open it back up and give all the critters a bit more space to mill about. Should have that done this weekend. Also still trying to complete the instant garage moving and putting back together. I want to board the lower section up and use a tarp for roofing this year. Run hot wire along the top & bottom of boards on the outside to keep wild critters out and use it for my kid barn. Pictures will be posted when complete. Will use pallets on front section to separate from adult goats and dogs, with a swinging door to go in and out. So it will be butted up against adult pasture from the front.

Having difficulty getting hay to my place. I have no truck. Last person that helped me is to busy with storm issues and another that offered can't get down off their road right now. So buying a few bales at a time from a feed store and it's costly. Hoping for a break in this area soon.

Chickens are still doing awesome. Get 7-9 eggs a day. This keeps me and my extended family in fresh eggs.

Ok, on the up swing of things again. Got another round bale of hay delivered this morning. After lunch going out to finish taking apart instant garage and my soon to be son in law is going to move it for me. That way tomorrow afternoon I can work on getting it back together. Will buy plywood next week and get that together. Also tomorrow finish the back pasture.
Got pictures up here but was trying to upload a short video. I haven't figured that one out yet.

Poppit is adorable

The dogs look happy!

You have hay!

Life is good!

Southern by choice said:

Poppit is adorable

The dogs look happy!

You have hay!

Life is good!

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Life is great!

So this morning we had about 30 visitors in the side field. Turkeys. Have to enlarge picture to see them just at the top.
We took Yukon and Tahoe out on the leash for their morning romp and they followed those tracks all over the place. So my daughter and I got our exercise in.

Haze is showing more signs of delivery before January. She is definitely all puffy and more discharge. I am thinking sometime in the next few days. Annabelle(one to the right of Haze) has also developed a bit of discharge but nothing much. Thinking she lost her mucus plug today. All the others look as they should.
Lady part pictures(opinions welcome)

Ok, here is a couple of pictures of my ever so big ladies, who are playing the guessing game...will I have them today?
Some discharge, softening ligs, Annabelle being restless. Haze being overly grumpy. Spent a few hours watching them late last night. Came home at midnight. Will be out to check on them in a few minutes.


Then a picture of Hazel actually sitting to watch all the happenings. Sorry so dark, lighting in barn at night is not meant for pictures.


Pippy climbing on Venus, who does not appreciate this behavior..lol


and Miss Poppit being spoiled as usual by one of my helpers.

The waiting will drive me crazy! . Discovered that Hazel is not bred. Izzy(the wether) and Rhett(the ram) both were after her yesterday. I was very disappointed, she has such a lovely baby from last year. Oh well, nothing to do about that one. All are healthy and doing fine.

Yukon and Tahoe still sleep in the second barn. The goats and sheep don't totally avoid them anymore, but all the older ones keep a distance between them. At least they don't run around all crazy like when the dogs get to close.

Started to help take care of my "mother-in-law" two weeks ago, so I dropped my out of house work to two hours in the am. Now "brother-in-law" is back in the hospital and needs bypass surgery at some point. Not stable enough to do it now. So they are working on getting him stable enough for a few stints until he can have the bypass. So he won't be home for Christmas. She is trying to decide what she is going to do for the long term, he was her other care giver. I can't do all of the care and work outside the house. So we will see what happens there.

My other half, Dan went to doctors yesterday. They are running some test. Go back on the 2nd of Jan unless doc calls him in before then. Checking on stuff to do with his heart and his thyroid. He has a fast heartbeat, they did an EKG right at docs office, lab work and now waiting. So praying that it is not anything serious.

and now it's off to care for her for the morning, animals feed time changed to around noon slowly over the last week. Then back home to do afternoon stuff.

That is a lot of health crisis. I know how stressful that can be.
I think one of the difficult things added in is that often the caregiver ends up neglecting themselves and that is never good. Hopefully you will have some help and that all start healing and getting care they need.
This getting older stuff stinks. Just sayin' !