Flooded Creek Farm Goat Cam. Weighed the babies...WOW!!!

[Mamaboid]

I need one of these jungle gyms! I am going to show it to DH and see if he could do something similar for our wethers. Would this work for grown goats? (though our 2 are only half grown right now)

Check out the camera link most mornings before noon and you will see the adult goats playing on it. Not this morning because some dummy forgot to turn the camera around.
The adult does play on it all the time. The bucks don't because they are fainters and they don't climb or jump. Elsie never gets up on it either.

 

[Mamaboid]

Hello All. It's been a while since I posted anything on here, so I thought I would bring you up to date. The kids are growing and thriving. Elsie is doing such a wonderful job raising all three of them.

I put an order in to Jeffers today for DiMethox to treat the kids. I need to get the 5 day treatment in before I go in the hospital on the 5th.

Since Elsie had her CD&T shot 4 weeks before she kidded, I was going to wait until the kids were 6 weeks to give them theirs, but I will be only a week out of the hospital at 6 weeks, so I think I will do those on the 4th. That will be 5 weeks old. Is it better to do it then than to wait another 3 or 4 weeks until I am able to get down there to do it?

I want to get all their hooves trimmed before I go in also, so I will be working on those this week. It is supposed to get up to almost 60 here later in the week so it won't be so cold to work.

On a different note, I put my chickens all on lockdown for a few days. Yesterday, while cleaning goat huts, I discovered 17 eggs in two different nests in the goat huts. So, the chickens stay in until they learn where they are supposed to drop those things. ggrrrr Stupid birds.

And finally, my brother and sister-in-law were here today, and my sil is a wonder with a camera. She took a bunch of pictures and gave me permission to share them with you all. So, compliments of Michal, for your enjoyment.....some of the herd.

Stephanie

Elsie

Brandy

Elizabeth and Elijah

Dusty and Brandy

Dusty

Erin and William (Erin is the goat, William is my nephew)

Dude and Eli (I think I posted this one before but I had to get everybody in here)

Hope everybody is having a great day.

BJ

 

[Queen Mum]

LOVE this one. It should be picture of the YEAR!

It is so sweet! Tell your SIL, that she did a WONDERFUL job on the pictures.

 

[cindyg]

Just delightful, thanks for sharing

 

[wannacow]

Beauty!

 

[hcppam]

What cuties!

 

[vermillionoaks]

Great pics. You have some nice goats!

 

[Mamaboid]

Thanks all. We love em, and they are just slightly () spoiled.

 

[autumnprairie]

As they should be, mine are too!

 

[Mamaboid]

WOW! We finally got around to weighing the babies again tonight. Couldn't believe it.
Elijah weight at birth 4.5 pounds weight at 22 days 16.5 pounds .54 per day
Erin weight at birth 4. pounds weight at 22 days 12 pounds .36 per day
Elizabeth weight at birth 3.5 pounds weight at 22 days 11 pounds..34 per day

A strange thing happened. We have had hands on these babies every day from the minute they were born. Checked them out from stem to stern til they are almost automatically rolling over so we can make sure things are where they are supposed to be , and thought we had 2 horned goats and a polled goat. The little buck has had horns from day 2 that you could feel. The doeling Erin's were obvious from about day 4. Elizabeth had no horns, no buds, the swirl on top of her head just like her polled mother, and we were sure she was polled. Tonight, I was kissin on all the babes, picked up Elizabeth and kissed her on the top of the head... .....horn buds. I swear, they were not there yesterday. I thought I had the wrong goat, but nope. It makes no difference to us, we like horns and we already decided to keep her, it is just weird that they popped up like that overnight. Literally overnight.