Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

My does with singles are always light on the side the kids nurse on.

Scarlet should be that way too but rosco is such a piggy he wouldn't let that other side go untouched. She is very close to producing the same on each side but the left is the tiniest bit less producing. Maybe 1/4-2/3 cup less?

@Latestarter - As per the 1960's and skirt-lengths, smaller than a mini would be a micro-mini. I know this, of course, from movies and history trivia. I could not be expected to remember anything from that time-period, since I was sooo young. Well, actually, I was young having been born in '61.

Ah well... I guess micro mini is acceptable

Given the nice long weekend and no soccer games to go to, we did some catching up around our place.

We had enough milk to make our 1st batch of Chevre cheese for the year....it turned out yummy!!

DD and DS(11) decided it was nice enough to start clipping the goats- yesterday they did 3 of the does and the 2 yearling does. DD has finals starting tomorrow so she has been studying as well. Today DD decided to clip Chester(our buck) and he is being very good standing for her.

It's interesting to see what their coat looks like underneath!

Our weather has been warm and humid during the day and cool at night- which is somewhat earlier for us then normal......

we have been dealing with Maggie and her sore hoof for the last week or so- we were trimming hoofs and she moved on us and a little too much got trimmed off. We have been treating it and keeping her dry but she ended up with an infection/swelling in that hoof. After several days, we have her on the mend and hopefully she will start putting more weight on it

The other morning, I went out to feed the bucklings, who are hanging out with Marsh and Monty(our 2 yearling wethers- they were part of the 6 kids born last year) and Marsh was not there to meet me at the door and get in my face like he usually does for attention....he was laying down and not looking right....got him standing and took his temp...107.0 , made a few phone calls- (1 being our vet), gave him Pen G and ibuprofen and waited for the vet. Marsh's temp dropped to 103.4 when the vet arrived and treated him with Baytril. Marsh is doing somewhat better but not out of the woods yet, we check on him multiple times in the day(my kids are off for summer so they help when I'm not home) we have to call the vet tomorrow and give him an up date..... that he pulls through

On a better note, milking is going pretty well- we got a hand held milker that we use with Melaine- she has been giving us about 1 lb of milk per milking and the milker works great with her. I am still hand milking Coco and Obie because they do not like the milker and wont let their milk down!! We think Obie is drying herself off already on us(she kidded a single buckling in April)- only one side fills up and not very much at that

All 7 of our bucklings are fully weaned and doing well- a few are still not sure that it's okay for us to touch them....

my dad continues to have his challenges, which can make things ruff....

Hope he's better
Marsh and your dad

OneFineAcre said:

Hope he's better
Marsh and your dad

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Thanks

Praying for Marsh.