Porkchop48 - Long overdue LONG update

[porkchop48]

Where is knox county? I am down in Morgan county.

One big tree lifted my coop about 4 ft in the air, still replacing fences, stick pickin gup glass and limbs. Plum tuckered out. Add that to a scraptastic day at work and I am just done.


Speaking of craptastics days at work.. Really people when you start a meeting out like that, really how well do you thinkn it is going to go? Upset .. yes I am upset, Again how did you really think it was going to go.


OK small bit of whining, I am done now.

 

[porkchop48]

Finally a day to get stuff done.

Got some work done in the frog room. Worked with Thermo for a bit. Managed to get half the coop shoveled out and new bedding put in. Did some garden weeding. Dinner is one. Picked more stuff from the garden to can tonight. Took some pics of the goats to post and of course the batteries in the camera died. I can not even get it to turn on to get the pics downloaded.

I am about ready to have a hissy girlie fit.

SO I am now trying to email some not so great pics from my phone to myself to see if I can post them that way. It may be tedious but I got nothing else better to do right.

Thermo is trying my patience like you would not believe. He is pretty good with the goats, even the kids. But I can not get him to leave the cows alone. I can not get him to not run across the street. An underground fence is not an option with him or the mini farm. I got one of those spiked colors to help with pulling while walking on a leash. We have been doing much better. I also got a 30 ft traning leash so he would learn the words " come" or " here"

Let see if this one pic works then continue on with my mini rant.

 

[porkchop48]

OK a little blurry but you get the point. That was one of my males traying to woo one of the new females I picked up yesterday.

I feel bad keeping every one cooped up but it must be done when new birds come it.

I now have 2 males a green and a black shoulder, 2 hens ( a indie blue and a black shoulder) and a white pea chick.

OK back to Thermo. Tonight starts shock collar training. I know some people hate them but I have to be able to do something to get his attention as he is heading for the road. He does not hear well so yelling his name does not work. I am hoping the vibration of the collar ( I did make sure to get one with a vibration mode) will make him stop long enough for me to get his attention and have him come back. Lots of good treats are ready for this evenings traning session. Wish me luck.

My new Turken roo. I picked up 5 new turkens the other day. 4 girls one boy.

Here is Socket. My new Silkie roo. I had 2 black hens and a blue splash roo. They unfortunately were at a friends house and got taken by some kind of critter. The brood of chicks they had hatched out are not at my house in the brooder in the garage. Not all of them were found but atleast it gives us something to start over with.

Same friend also brought me 4 goslings the other day. I think they are pilgrams. The people she got them from said it was 2 males and 2 females based on colors. So the only auto sexing gesse are pilgrims. Please please let them be pilgrims.

And here is Ditto.

Ditto got her name due to looking alot like Bailey. Both are little nubian doelings. of course Bailey has grown and they do not look quite alike but at the time they were almost identical. They looked enough alike that when DH sent me a pic from the stock barn I got mad asking him why he took Bailey to the sale.

She is a total mamma girl and the one I had posted about in the emergency forum. There is no keeping her in a pen and if you stop too soon she runs into you.

 

[ILuvSheep]

OK a little blurry but you get the point. That was one of my males traying to woo one of the new females I picked up yesterday.

I feel bad keeping every one cooped up but it must be done when new birds come it.

I now have 2 males a green and a black shoulder, 2 hens ( a indie blue and a black shoulder) and a white pea chick.

OK back to Thermo. Tonight starts shock collar training. I know some people hate them but I have to be able to do something to get his attention as he is heading for the road. He does not hear well so yelling his name does not work. I am hoping the vibration of the collar ( I did make sure to get one with a vibration mode) will make him stop long enough for me to get his attention and have him come back. Lots of good treats are ready for this evenings traning session. Wish me luck.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii285/porkchop48/07142012689.jpg
My new Turken roo. I picked up 5 new turkens the other day. 4 girls one boy.

Here is Socket. My new Silkie roo. I had 2 black hens and a blue splash roo. They unfortunately were at a friends house and got taken by some kind of critter. The brood of chicks they had hatched out are not at my house in the brooder in the garage. Not all of them were found but atleast it gives us something to start over with.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii285/porkchop48/07142012686.jpg

Same friend also brought me 4 goslings the other day. I think they are pilgrams. The people she got them from said it was 2 males and 2 females based on colors. So the only auto sexing gesse are pilgrims. Please please let them be pilgrims.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii285/porkchop48/07112012678.jpg

And here is Ditto.

Ditto got her name due to looking alot like Bailey. Both are little nubian doelings. of course Bailey has grown and they do not look quite alike but at the time they were almost identical. They looked enough alike that when DH sent me a pic from the stock barn I got mad asking him why he took Bailey to the sale.

She is a total mamma girl and the one I had posted about in the emergency forum. There is no keeping her in a pen and if you stop too soon she runs into you.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii285/porkchop48/07102012674.jpg

Oh my word... I just read your entire journal anf you need a hugs!! I do NOT know hwo you get it done!! Sorry for the loss of the doeling, and that they are pilgrims!!

Also, you said on page 3 you'd have turtle pictures. Lol, its page 10!! If you have nothing better to do them try and upload photos from your e-mail, take some of the turtles!!

Best of luck and Ill be stalking you!! O.O (ya creepy i know, LMAO)

Oh, and that Turken pic is AMAZING! What color is he? He is to DROOL FOR !! <--- see??? LMAO

 

[autumnprairie]

I love Ditto and the goslins are adorable what are pilgrim geese

 

[porkchop48]

You just ever have one of them days... This is mine. Hell the last 2 weeks have been.

Finally get the two bucklings sold. The lady has had them for a little under 2 weeks and one is dead. No idea why. Now I feel like I did something wrong. No bite marks, no wounds. she said he was acting fine. His brother is fine.

4 peacocks - Gone. No clue where they went. Not sure if some one has them locked up or they just decided to leave. Great just great. My luck though.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

I wish I knew what to tell you

 

[elevan]

Big hugs to you

Don't beat yourself up on the buckling issue. 2 weeks in their new home is more than enough time that they could have developed a parasite load and I'd say that is what took the one down. Worms only take 4 days to build up and cocci can build very quickly. Both are opportunist and will bloom when the immune system is low. A goat's immune system will drop due to stress. Moving to a new home is a stress. Goats can go from fine to dead very very quickly due to a parasite load. You are not to blame, so don't let it get to you.

 

[porkchop48]

My newest little pride and joy... Squatch with his Mama Mini Me.

He is a beast of a goat.. Well for me anyways was 11-12 lbs at birth. Mini me was the one that had the very hard time. No wonder looking at the size of him compared to her. She is a very short stocky goat.

His name is Squatch. As much as I would love to keep him, he just does not fit into my plans with them little dangles.

My sidways pic of Ditto. She is a little ham but found out after I got her she was pulled from her mom way too young at about 5 weeks. Might explain why she is smallish and such a clingy goat but I love her dearly.

Ditto again.

Kurt and Steiner.

Kurt is the black, white and tan one. Steiner is the Borwn and white. Both are pure aplines.

Tut doing the fence scratch. Tut is a nubian apline mis that will be 5 months old Augut 7th. First kid born at the farm. She is a keeper.

 

[Roll farms]

Very nice!

I'd be tempted to give Ditto cocci meds. She has 'the look' and being weaned early could certainly cause stress, which is a contributing factor.