Coffee anyone ?

[RR Homestead]

Got home around midnight last night from wrenching, got a beautiful view while wrenching...View attachment 123053

I was so busy drooling over the rigs I didn't even notice the sky for a minute. I miss driving truck.

Coffee is ready. I finished the lambs, all in the freezer. Have one sold, will give meat to son in law, he loves to cook and is very creative. If they lived next door, I'd eat at their house real often. LOL I finally found a raw meat that my Anatolians will eat-lamb. I think I'll start making more wethers and slaughtering at home.

I have a couple goats and sheep going in the freezer for our pets too. We almost exclusively raise all our dogs/cats food. It's a labor of love for sure.

I'm adopting him!!!!!

I can take him today!!!!

Congratulations doesn't cover it but CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! So incredibly happy for you both!

Sorry, he's not up for adoption...yet...

Now that's funny!

Posted in my journal.
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He's at the fosters, she's going to get him crate trained, housebroken until I bring him home, but said I should visit frequently, yippee!
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She's a dog trainer, said D is a puppy, 9-12 months. He weighs about 35 pounds, but I had no problem picking him up.

Working on a name.

This is the best post! Did I say CONGRATULATIONS yet???? So happy for you two and absolutely lovely pup!

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I like Biblical names, thinking of Caleb.

Love the name!

Ah - it's Forecast Frenzy here. It's going to rain, it's going to pour, FLOOD WATCH, run for your lives, buy all the bread you can.
OMG -- the media and the wanna be weathermen, weather aps -- all are running around like Chicken Little (giving CL a bad name). It's cloudy, there were drippy drop marks on the ground. I stupidly paid attention to the frenzy and thought - it's going to pour soon - and kept the sheep in the barn gave them their alfalfa and pumpkins. Rain gauge is wet, guessing 1/10 inch??? not even close to any of the marks on it.
So it will probably rain, things will get wet, people will be stupid and media will play it up even if they have to have someone with a hose standing over them.
On the plus side - in the rush to go feed sheep before the skies opened up (they have opened to blue sky now) I took Sage and Lumen (she's the will be 13 in a few days) with me. Lumen had a great time. She is still the powerhouse dog she was in her younger years - though the moves are in her mind and she will fall over trying (LOL and she did - but she's very happy).

We were going to get 1 1/2 in 24 hours then 1/4 inch then none then 1 inch then then then then. We got almost 2 in 24 hours. That they didn't forecast. Oh and we were supposed to have pretty hefty gusts with everyone panicking and we didn't get anything to speak of.

Busy morning cleaning up the utility room. I store vet stuff for three species, dog and chicken chow in there. I have an over the door shoe pocket storage for tools and odds and ends. Animals seem to require a lot of gear.

Ok this is genius!!! Mind if I copy cat ya?? I'm totally going to do this at our new house. This is genius! Animals sure do require a lot of gear.

Of course!!! She's listened to the media hype batten down the hatches, stock up on tp, etc.
Granted it's going to rain and people will be crazy stupid here in jolly ol' CA - add in hype and boom.

It's amazing how nuts CA folks get with "weather". Most weather we have here isn't anything compared to other states. We've been trying to figure out what we want to buy to get more cold weather ready for winter when we move. It's not going to be like here and we are expecting that.

 

[fuzzi]

Caleb eats shoes, just destroyed #3...all from different pairs.

Time to rearrange...

 

[fuzzi]

Congratulations doesn't cover it but CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! So incredibly happy for you both!

Now that's funny!

This is the best post! Did I say CONGRATULATIONS yet???? So happy for you two and absolutely lovely pup!

Love the name!

Thank you!


I made a thread "Caleb's Chronicles" in the LGD area, drop in if you want to read/see more.

 

[RR Homestead]

Good Friday evening y'all! Having coffee catching up here. So nice to read such a great group of supportive happy folks. Gosh y'all are great!
Had an exhausting day of pretty much no sleep. Every time we'd fall asleep something or someone would wake us up. Absolutely exhausted. Struggling not to be grumpy. The last wake up was someone in our driveway honking and carrying on. We went out to find an older gentleman who was driving by and found a calf in the road. He wasn't a local it turns out and a local stopped and took the calf home. He left me the number of who took the calf in case I could find the owner or help. I started calling all the remaining neighbors who would possibly have a young calf that got out and everyone said all their calves were accounted for. Contacted the gal who had the calf and told her I would take it and take care of it until we found the owner. Explained we had everything here for caring for it and she told us she went to tractor supply and got it colostrum. I asked some questions and realized immediately they have no clue how to take care of the calf so encouraged them to bring her over. This calf is at least a week or two old. The gal had to ask grandma because she wanted to take care of it. 20 or so minutes later someone pulled into our driveway in an SUV. I went back out and it was grandpa with the calf. I figured they were keeping her since they stopped responding to questions. I'm guessing grandma said no. When I got the calf out of the back I knew it was likely a lost cause. I don't know how they tried to feed her but she got milk in her lungs for sure. She's not trying to cough it up yet either. Severely dehydrated. No meat on her bones. No suck reflex. However has good strength still which is surprising but there's a bit more to it that we can't yet figure out. She's survived the last 5 hours but I wouldn't say is improving yet. Doing all we can for her. If she makes it I'll probably wean one of the bigger calves off our milk cow and graft her on. As of last check she still has no suck. She's an interesting case. Still waiting to see what her stool looks like but she has urinated which was surprising with how dehydrated she is. So we'll see how she does overnight. We are really thinking someone dumped her on the side of the road. We don't know if she was hit and if that's why her behavior is odd or worse. She acts like she has some brain problems. Almost time for feeding calves and milking so we'll see how she does.

 

[RR Homestead]

Thank you!


I made a thread "Caleb's Chronicles" in the LGD area, drop in if you want to read/see more.

I will do that! Thanks! back for sure!

 

[Mini Horses]

been trying to figure out what we want to buy to get more cold weather ready for winter

Long johns! Insulated jackets. Insulated boots.

 

[RR Homestead]

Long johns! Insulated jackets. Insulated boots.

Any recommendations on the long johns and jackets? Got plenty of insulated boots to hold us over for now thankfully.

 

[RR Homestead]

Under my user name is says "Overrun with beasties". It took me a bit to figure out if i'd put that and forgotten or if someone was spying on me here. That's adorable and sadly quite true at the moment at least.
Thought I would update on the calf in case anyone wants to know. She is getting a slight suck but still not enough to actually nurse so after quite a bit of trying on our part she was tubed milk for supper. She's made dramatic improvements since I had last checked on her. She's almost completely re hydrated which was unexpected so fast. I've been dealing with dairy calves so much for so long I forgot how much hardier beef calves are. Most of our graft calves are dairy or dairy cross and those are the ones I'm constantly battling sickness in for the first few weeks or so. She's slowly starting to improve and after tubing her milk and milk safe electrolytes (first milk she's gotten here so far) she's now finally settled down in her hay bed in the calf box and sleeping. That's the first she's done that since her arrival. My better half moved one of our spare camera's onto her area so I can watch her closer than from a far away camera. I don't want to mess with her now that she's finally resting but she still needs here eye treated. Her eyes were sunk so far in her eye lashes were rolled in and scratching her eyes. Hoping pinkeye doesn't set in and her left eye ball is clearly irritated and running from it. Good news is the raspy milk lungs seems to have cleared up and since she's already been treated hopefully it won't turn into pneumonia. I'm really surprised I don't hear any mama cows balling anywhere around here but having said that we are really thinking this is a dumped calf that was meant to die. She was really dehydrated to where just milk or electrolytes wouldn't have saved her. Now watching close for scours to set in so we can catch that quickly. We just keep praying if God wants us to save and raise this calf that he will guide us to saving her. My biggest concern now is if this calf never had colostrum.

 

[Weldman]

Any recommendations on the long johns and jackets? Got plenty of insulated boots to hold us over for now thankfully.

Layers. I run around with T shirt, long sleeve T shirt and light sweater from 50°F down to 30's, once it hits below 30's I put thermals on. Around the 10's when I start putting jacket on and when it hits sub zero is when a balaclava and other trimmings go on. When it gets around -30°F is when I put the coveralls on over everything and when the wind chill hits -60°F is when I put on scarf along with another thin layer of thermal which equals up to 6 inches of clothing needing to find a 2 inch garden hose to relieve pressure.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Trying to disassociate from work this weekend.
Going to go run soon, and then need to go to the hardware store for a few things. Ironically I might go into work if I don't think of anything else to do, I have a woodworking project for myself that I want to get done, and I have all the tools at work.