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New and unused here before. In this case, it was a horse wormer that I don't usually use and probably won't again for a long time.

I wish. She got mad that I didn't "trust" her after I asked. (...Uh, no? I've already been bitten once this year! and technically she wouldn't know if they had it or not either if no tests were done) I actually might have a solution to my small genes problem in the wings. Maybe.

The hand chopped hay re-annalysis came back yesterday, worse than the original one on protein-3.5%. No, my does just like eating fluffy junk food. Fine, I guess they can have an extra bale every day until we run out of it. I tape wormed the bucks with a novel wormer earlier and the ruttiness is...

This morning and presumably last night Riker decided that a living opossum belonged in the barn in the barn. As long as it stayed in the barn with the goats he was happy. I was not. So one pair of work gloves and a pair of leather gloves later I got the muck shovel and a big red flag back...

Edit: Wow, my internet conked out for a bit and made the post go screwy. Sorry. I don't even know how to do that on purpose.

I have a few options. I can pay about $400 extra to have them driven up from GA or AL, or slightly more to have them flown or driven down from breeders I know from Mass or NH. Driving across country with a mess of young children is challenging for now, so it's pay someone without kids to do it...

They declined letting me pay for a CL test or two even if I did all the legwork and came and got it and sent it in myself, all on my dollar. Bullet dodged, I guess. This herd is staying closed. They could be fine, but they could not be and I don't want to find out. The general overt attitude...

To focus on what we/I can do I asked if I could come and get a sample from the dam (or dams if I opt to get a second buckling) to run a full panel on before pickup. Two samples is better than one. If I can't I'll back out.

Ugh. Warning:brief venting. I'd like to bring in a mini lamancha buck for use on ff or older does. Might even go MDGA all the way if ADGA annoys me enough and they are close. Found a nice herd not too far away that looks like it's made an effort to bring in and keep nice stock out of their own...

I just looked up what greenbrier is. We had that. It keeps wanting to creep over the fence but the goats keep eating it back as far as they can reach like it's made out of cotton candy-wickedly prickly cotton candy and they check it every day to see if there's anything closer they can nibble...

Wow! That makes me want to look up hay choppers and dream big. That's amazing.

I put a hay probe through the middle of several bales around the stack. I wonder if it didn't cut right and only collected drier brittle dead matter that it didn't push aside. I had to stick it in quite a few times to get a decent sized sample and kept having to stop and pull it out and pull...

Yeah, I had issues with the probe getting tied up with hay wound around it. I think I botched the sample. I'll hold off letting the does have a month of hay party to use it all up all gone for now. Lol, they're going to be sad. Today was fun.

You know, I may resample that hay and hand chop instead of using my hay probe. Something does not seem right. Usually goats are hay brats. I wonder if I did something wrong.

My grass hay. I'm surprised it came in so low. It has seedheads but doesn't look like straw.

It is local drought hay. And it is over mature crabgrass. We had issues this year with getting enough water at the right times locally and we are still short on rainfall for the year. Not like last year, but still pretty bad. Driving an hour north puts us in a different rainfall pattern, I...

I can try that.

The hay analysis(s?) came back. The alfalfas are 18 and 19% protein and the 80 bales of luscious, sweet grass hay I picked up for the bucks when they refuse to eat the alfalfa due to doe in heat is only 5% protein. :confused: Also, we're still low on selenium and copper (already knew that). So...

Still all negative results. I'll retest in about 6 months give or take. Three (really 2.5) more 6 month intervals tests to go before this blows over. Lily, the slow grower. Time to get my milk scale calibrated and sign up for milk testing again.

Gee, you have a serious bluebird problem.