Well, okay then. I need another blog like I need a hole in the head. I haven't been keeping up with EatingWildMontana, which is where I need to be. But here goes nothing. Really. I'll try to get this stuff written up occasionally, but you may want to check out EatingWildMontana.com for my...
Folks, I hope this isn't too spammy for you. With all the headaches with epe, I haven't posted about my publishing company's audiobook raffle going on. Basically, we're giving away one copy each of our top five audiobooks: The Lost Enforcer, Modern Sorcery, Acheron Highway, Samurai Son, and...
Okay, I've had a horrible year and now I'm looking at two very sick llamas. Weather has been awful and we've had a sudden shift to below zero weather after having nothing but rain before that and the grossest mud. We lost Sid because he was 21 years old. We lost Rico at 14 due to cancer...
After getting a doe from a game damaged hunt, I realized that all the hides I have in the freezer and salted in my wash room need to be tanned. So, I have four hides soaking in alum and salt in my downstairs bathroom...
:sick
But, OTOH, if they tan okay, I should have some nice hides.
I have...
I honestly don't know how beekeepers keep wasps away here in Montana. We seem to have oodles of them. I am thinking next year of putting together a small apiary, but I'm wondering how to keep the wasps from destroying a colony. Thoughts?
I have lost my mind. Long story short, I discovered a craigslist ad with three packing llamas and all their gear. We went to see them, and yes, we got them. They were passed from owner to owner for awhile (nobody's fault -- general circumstances) and the current owner discovered he doesn't have...
One of the things that has been keeping me busy lately besides weird kid deaths :rolleyes: has been the Small Product Lab. Basically, we're to come up with an idea and create, market it, and bring it to full production in 10 days. I had been meaning to write a goat book for some time (I am a...
We've been going crazy with the two kids that died. Now, with a kid with scours, I'm beginning to feel cursed. But maybe it's my own fault.
We chose to have later births because cold weather is hard on the critters. But the kids that are having the most problems are generally the ones born...
Trouble comes in threes, I guess. :barnie Hopefully this one won't end up with a dead kid like the other two.
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I have a 3 week old buckling, named Blackjack, who is scouring big time. I mean, the diarrhea is all down his back legs. It's bad. Really bad. This afternoon when we found...
It all started a day after Delilah's buckling was born four days ago. The little guy started looking "off" the second day. By the evening of the second day, I brought him up to the house. I gave him some antibiotics and yogurt. Yesterday, he had all the signs of FKS -- distended belly, floppy...
I'm still in shock. Galadriel, our almost 3 month old bottle baby died in my arms tonight. I went to feed the critters and milk the does. Galadriel had been acting a bit reluctant to hang out with the other girls and laid down but when I called her to the bottle. She ate like a fiend. She...
SOLD -- We had a surprise doeling back in September who is now about 8 to 9 months old. Frost is small but she should end up a nice size, especially if you're looking for a smaller sized girl. Nice personality. She is beyond cute, but her size isn't where I'm heading. And as you can see, I have...
This is a rant -- not at you or anyone on this list. I just adopted a lovely llama 7 month old baby from a woman who had rescued her from a person who got her in a trade. It appears the trader is a bit off their rocker and threatens to shoot anything that "drives them crazy." The woman who...
Of course while we're trying to get Sid to come around, we adopted a new female llama. Meet Llorelei. She's a 7 month old rescue.
Here are pictures of her and Sid.
Yeah, she's a mess, but she is a sweetie.
Sid the llama is fairly old. I think he's probably 16 or 17? Anyway, he stopped eating completely. Doesn't want llama lunch, sweet feed, hay, or grass. Was drinking a lot of water and then slowed down drinking. We've been trying to get hold of a llama doc around here.
Any suggestions?
Sid stopped eating. We're not sure if it's in protest from not getting llama lunch or whether he's really sick. We have phone calls into the vet. Sigh. Thoughts? He's pretty ancient now. I'm guessing 17? We wormed him and tried sweet feed. Tried fresh grass. Tried hay. Got llama lunch today...
As you may or may not be aware, Galadriel, my now 2 week old doeling had it particularly rough after being born. She had been doing very well lately but last night she seemed a little poky. I figured she had just woken up. She had spent the majority of the day in her crate, but hadn't pooped...
I am bad at math even with my math minor. 2 goats equals 19. Or at least that's the number I have now. I THOUGHT I had 15. But then I did a nose count.
Heidi
Belle
Annie
Delilah
Blaze
Wingnut
Ginger
Mocha
Frost
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Galadriel
Angus
Ragnar
Rollo
Spectre
Bison
Oreo
Skittles
Oh...
I have a tough time with insect bites and stings. I would love to have bees because I make mead now! But alas, I suspect I am stuck on the sidelines watching all of you. :caf :( :hit Still, I am soooooo tempted.:smack
Or how to drive myself batty with goats. We've had two healthy kids from Belle and a near-total disaster with Heidi. You can read about Heidi's Kid mess HERE.
The good news is that Honey is doing better. :celebrate
Here are Cinnamon and Nutmeg, "the Spice Girls" from Belle:
Cinnamon...