KinderKorner's ** Kid Pictures

[KinderKorner]

I am leaving for the weekend on a float trip. Whoot! Anyway here is an update from last week.

We patched all the cracks on the front, painted 2 coats on half of it, 1 coat on the door, and painted over the patches on the right before we ran out of paint.

Here is the next side we will be working on. It needs scraped, brushed, washed, patched then painted.

You can see I have already begun patching the biggest cracks above the windows.

Here is the new and improved front. I bought more paint but I don't know when I'll get time to finish. You can really see the stages in this picture. The right is just painted over the patches, the bottom has no paint, and the left has two coats. I think the left looks great! (We didn't really do the bottom yet) But it's coming along, slowly but surely.

One of my favorite and best does left today. Her babies and me miss her.

 

[KinderKorner]

Float trip was fun but tiring. I'm glad to be home.

Yesterday we got a lot of progress done on the front of the milkhouse, and I can now say it's 98% painted.

Tulip one of the 2 bred does I bought kidded today. One buckling.

The other doe never took.

So basically I paid for 2 bred does, hoping for 4 kids, and I got 1 buckling out of the deal.

He isn't even special, or beautiful, and he doesn't even have a belly band like his father did. Just a boring brown buckling.

I know it's a risk you take but I'm hoping the breeder will give me a discount on another baby or something, because I'm a bit disappointed to say the least. :/

Tulips udder looks fairly nice though, and her milk comes out very easily and quickly. (Just like her sister Lily) Which is why I wanted the two does in the first place. So if anything, I guess I have another good milker. I'm just a little sad.

I'm already keeping 2 other bucklings from this year, and now I'll have to keep this one because I wanted a Ferguson baby so badly.

And even sadder is the fact that every buck I have is related, pretty closely too. So I really need to find another buck. That would put me at 8. Someone has to go, but I haven't decided who yet.

In other news I have a doeling with high production potential that is open for sale. So if anyone is interested in a Registered Kinder Doeling that will be a great milker, let me know!

 

[KinderKorner]

I figured it was time for an update.

The house got appraised, and hopefully we will be closing next week!

That is if we can sort of the problems that popped up. (The crazy banker suddenly decided he wants a higher interest rate for no reason. So if we can't talk him back down, we will have to start over at another bank)

I pretty much finished painting the front and side of the building. Got the front window frame in.

We have been working on putting up fencing, but even with a borrowed tractor it takes over 45 minutes to dig the hole because the ground is so dry!

Yesterday we dug a hole for my brace post, and alas the hole was 3 inches too far away. grrr. So now we have to dig it by hand or redig for 45 minutes with the tractor. I'm not sure which is worse. We gave up in fustration after 4 hours of back breaking work and only getting 2 posts in.

We sold a couple bucklings and a doeling. When mom went to drop off a buckling at a buyers house she came back with a doeling and a bucking. I told her it's bad math to sell one and buy two.

 

[KinderKorner]

I have a lot to catch up on. Sorry for the long post.

Well fence posts are going in, very slowly. I think we have 7 in the ground, and a couple more holes dugs out of the 30 wood posts.

Soon to be father in law is so sweet. He goes up there nearly everyday, and just works on stuff. Like mowing, weed eating, cutting down a dead tree, fixing the old lawn mower.... I don't even know he is there, until I notice how lovely the lawn looks, and how my the wild patches of trees are suddenly trimmed.

Renters got out a week or so ago. Work has begun inside. Fiance got 4 of his friends there for 2 days before they all leave for college. Give 6 men sledge hammers and they make quick work of the destruction that needs to be done. They have 2 of the upstairs rooms gutted, except for parts of the ceilings. Now only like 12 more rooms to go.

I don't know how we will ever get done in 2 1/2 months before my wedding. Things are crazy around here. Wedding planning is going badly. We haven't even looked at rings, or picked out flowers, music, ceremony, or anything else really.

House needs to be completely gutted, rewired, and rewalled. Among many others things.

Barns and fencing must be build.

I'm getting overwelmed.

But today we are closing. Later than expected, but I figure that just gave us more time without house payments.

On a sad note. Goatie, my very favorite and first goat, went into labor on tuesday as expected. She is super fat, and was bred as an accident. I had not planned on breeding her anymore because of her weight, and loosing Sara Rabbit my other fat doe, kidding last year. Well I was at Fiances and mom called me home when back feet appeared and she wasn't progressing.

I got home, and found her struggling. It seems as though she wasn't dialated? I'm not sure, but her rear was tiny, and not big enough for a baby. Never seen it like that. Her tail was all swollen from pushing, but her rear wasn't open/ready for kidding. I have no clue why. I pulled as hard as I could for a while and got the baby out. It's elbows were just bent and stuck and when I pulled hard enough to straighten it out, it slid right out. It was born fully formed and dead, for no apparent reason. A beautiful spotted doeling, with a belly band from none other than Jacob my Pygmy. (Goatie's favorite.) We thought she had been bred to Dandy. She began cleaning it off, calling to it, and nudging it when it didn't respond. Goatie has always been our best mother. She is very protective, gentle, and loving with her babies. She adores them, and still loves her adult babies even now that they have gone on to have their own babies and grand babies.

We waited a long time, expecting more because she has always had multiples such as triplets, and she was huge. But no more babies came. I was worried there was more stuck in her, but I bounced and didn't feel anything, and after the Sara Rabbit disaster I decided to let her be. It was late, so I wrapped the dead baby up in a puppy pad and hid it behind the barn for the night. Goatie freaked out when I took her baby away. She cried so loudly, and searched all over the barn for it, but she was too weak from the struggle and eventually laid down and just cried all night. The next morning, Goatie has somehow found her baby, and was standing protectively over it, and had licked it clean. She was making soft, low cries to it, apparently knowing something is wrong.

I took it and hid it again, this time on the other side of the farm because I had to go to work. She found it again while I was in the shower. I got my mother to bury it while I was at work.

It's now Friday, and she is still wandering aimlessly around the farm, crying soft, heart breaking cries for her baby. She seems to be doing okay as far as no infection or problems. But she is so upset and grieving her baby. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I've never seen an animal mourn this hard before. I nearly cry everytime I go outside and hear her pitiful calling.

Goatie is very special. She was bought at an animal swap when I still lived in the a subdivision. She slept in the house and was our pet 'dog.' She was potty trained, and stayed in the yard when she ran free to go potty. She does tricks, and HATES other goats. Years later we have since bought a farm, but she still runs free and sleeps on the porch. She goes with me on walks, and follows me as I feed the animals every morning. She still sneaks into the house while we aren't looking, and will knock on the door and then run in when we open it to see who is there. She loves potato chips, and won't eat anything off the ground or if it has been slobered on by animal or human. She comes when called, and adores riding in the car. She can open locks, gates, and doors. She is the best pet I've ever had, and I'm so thankful she lived through this difficult time. It hurts my heart when I look at her now because she hasn't been herself. I wish I had a baby to give to her, or a way to explain that her kid is gone.

This week has really shown me how much I love the little booger, and how fast she can be gone. I hope she lives many more happy years, and hopefully if I'm ever brave enough she'll get to have more babies at least one more time someday.

 

[daisychick]

Hope Goatie is doing better. Sorry you lost a baby.

 

[that's*satyrical]

That is so sad. Poor Goatie. I hope she feels better soon

 

[Pearce Pastures]

That is just heartbreaking.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Aww that is really sad. Goatie sounds like a really special pet and I hope someday she can have a baby of her own to raise. She sounds like she would be a great mommy. Hugs to you and Goatie.

 

[KinderKorner]

This was Goatie's 4th kidding, so it's not new to her. She is doing a lot better. She isn't crying anymore, but she is still really clingy to me.

The house has had it's ups and downs. We did close in it. We got the upstairs all gutted, just need to finish cleaning up the mess and the small details.

But we took a step backwards.

A tree had to come down, for when we moved our power line for our new electricity in a month or two. Well father in law (I'm just going to skip the word soon) dropped the tree right on the power line to the house last week.

So now we are completely without power, and it's not worth the money to pay to have it back hooked up when we are going to rip it out very soon. So now we can't work in the dark, and it's hard to take down the plaster without fans blowing the dust out.

Electrician is a guy from my church, and he is sweet as can be. I called him almost in tears, and he assured me it would be okay, it would just encourage us to go a little faster. He's coming out today, and is going to go ahead and put in our new panel, and just run one outlet. So we can at least hook a power strip to it and plug in a few things.

It's not what we planned, but we will make it work. Sadly our pocket book will be a little thinner.

To get to the place where the panel will be, the living room wall had to be ripped out, so destruction on livingroom has begun. All the walls are almost down and the ceiling is started.

I can't wait to move onto the next phase of remodeling after the house is gutted. Because I have a lung diease, I can't help with removing the walls because of the dust. I guess I get a good excuse for not working. But really I feel useless not being able to help.

Overall I'd say work is going well. The yard is getting cleaned up, trees are coming down, walls are coming out.

I really need to get some pictures. I wanted before and after pictures of everything, and so far i have nothing. Camera has been acting up, and it's hard to remember to bring it along.

 

[jodief100]

I am so sorry to hear about Goatie. What a wonderful girl she is.