Southern's (Southern By Choice) Journal- FLOODED!

That looks remarkably similar to a dog's head resting on a dining room table... Glad you've had a great Thanksgiving! Lots of work involved, but a real feeling of accomplishment when it's done. Happy animals, happy owners. High temps here today in the 20s... snow showers off and on over past several days. A couple inches of powder on the ground. Mel is becoming spoiled... I have to get him a real job soonest.

@Ferguson K - we bought the scale for about $300 and best $ spent IMO!
this one goes to 660lbs- we got the 42x30
http://www.palletscales.net/ps250_hog_sheep_scale.htm
this one goes to 2200 and is 56x20 $430
http://www.palletscales.net/vs-2000_livestock_scale.htm

DH and sons will handle the big bucks but lets face it- noone but those who love goats want to touch peed on legs
we do the CD&T 30 days before kidding to protect the kids since we need to disbud etc... we try to do hooves if we can... some does are too big and we can't lift their feet.

food coma

@Latestarter - I really think you should just find 2 scrub goats- wethers whatever- that you can just eat later... but start getting Mel use to livestock. As you can see in other threads waiting too long means there is a possibility he may not get trained. He has all the right potential as all his litter mates are exceptional dogs.
Did I read in another thread you retired?

... and yes the shame of it... Badger's head on MY table!
20 degrees Almosr 70 here yesterday... temps will be going back down next week though... 50's daytime. I hate the cold so for me anything under 70 is cold... for the dogs the colder the better... the goats... they hate the cold too.
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I was up early and all was still...a little before 6 am I heard squealing tires then BOOM!
Grabbed flashlight... got DD & DH and headed out... ANOTHER car in the trees. Guy was ok. Car totaled. 2nd car in less then a month.
Just glad he wasn't dead. Several people have died across the road and I am just glad that each time we go out the person has been alive.

LOL- as I guessed BLUE decided the car in the trees was something too close to his field... he has gone through the barn over the fencing and is now on "guard" out there.

Oh Blue.
Smart dogs can be a PITB sometimes.

Rain Rain Go AWAY!

Well all this rain and dreary seems to have affected ALL the barnyard animals! Dogs, goats, even the chickens!

They were ALL TERRIBLE tonight!
Terrible I say!

The dogs do love the rain and so they are out all day ripping and running getting muddy then they'd duck int the barn for a bit then go and lay out by the wire (by the roadside) and watch... and then wrestle and play....

Well tonight DD went to lock up the gates and put everyone up for the night. Keep in mind it is pitch black out!
Dogs decide to play this game of No... we'r staying out here and you can't make me. Except Chunk... he will always do what is asked. GOOD BOY!

The goats were all being snotty and hormonal and one of our does (Zephyr) who is never any trouble at all was being as mean as could be to 2 of our other goats! Zephyr has never done as much as a head butt to anything! She was butting the boss!
Mariah was biting tails!
Millie, Ruby and Cici were all just standing there like WHHHHHAAT?

Meanwhile the electric wire handle which was on the ground (we drop the top and step over) got stepped on by one of the pups! He starts yelping and ALL THE GOATS COME RUNNING OUT OF THE BARN!

Now I will say that is pretty cool... the goats do love their dogs and it is funny to see how the relationships are so strong that the goats think they will "protect" the dogs.

But now the goats won't go back into the barn, the dogs won't go either.

Our does are all bred and I must say this is the first year that we have seen this level of hormonal snottiness! And I mean they are all snots!

Eventually they all did go where they were suppose to.

The chickens were even squabbling today!

Hoping for nice weather tomorrow! Suppose to be partly cloudy but at least no rain!

Got a sick human kid throwing up so I'm up ... at least it is just a little bug and should be over soon. Badger won't leave her side.

New day tomorrow!
oh... actually it's already the new day.

Except for the sick child... (almost said kid - no confusion there...) Animals are funny sometimes. I could just picture all this happening real time as you described it... Specially the dogs running around in the wet. I have to deal with that here too with Mel and my daughter's dog. They love to run all over the mud covered back yard chasing one another. Hope the youngun is feeling better fast and that you have some better weather and tempers.

I know you don't think that was a fun night but the way you wrote it had me laughing.

Oh My! But, I know how you feel about the rain and the mud...

We are ankle deep in texas gumbo - and I'm not talking about the tasty, delicious kind of gumbo either!

Hope your sick one gets better quickly - and mostly hope nobody else catches that bug!

Aww! Hope your daughter gets better soon!

Southern by choice said:

Zephyr has never done as much as a head butt to anything! She was butting the boss!

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Yesterday Buttercup, my doeling from this year, decided to be a bit sassy and headbutt Compadre when we entered the pen! Silly girl! I don't think he noticed, lol, and I don't know if she actually got him, or just was very close to it...
What a good boy Chunk! The more you share about that dog, the more I him.

sure it wasn't a full moon last night

hope your daughter feels better soon!

our girls were snots yesterday too....maybe something in the air

We finally got some sunshine. And I have been sick for over a week and can't go out and play. I am better, but know if I go outside and pile into something at full speed, like I usually do, I'll get knocked right back down. So here I sit. You are probably getting the rain that we had for a week, it just moved out. All the rivers, creeks, lakes and ponds are overflowing.