Straw Hat Kikos

[CocoNUT]

OK everyone! Being a little mischevious has once again POSSIBLY caused confusion!

@ Straw - MEN will often wear panty hose when hunting...to help PREVENT ticks/chiggers from 'digging in'! It provides a layer through which the larger ticks (& even smaller ones) will have a GREATER DIFFICULTY biting! Am I the ONLY one who has heard of this? Or is this one of those "we don't discuss this" kinda things between men?! (I AM known for my 'interrogation' skills! So the guys who shared this info with me could argue they admitted this under "duress.")

 

[CocoNUT]

I didn't know that there were so many varieties of mosquitoes until I lived here in Belize. They haven't been too bad this year, mostly little tiny ones. I have not seen the ones with the striped legs that carry dengue and malaria. Last year I had to put spray on the goats in the evenings or they'd keep me awake banging their head against the zinc panels trying to keep them away. If there is a mosi in the area, it will find me. I'm going to put in a dragonfly pond.

Ticks were bad here this year also. I use Brewers Yeast/Garlic tablets for the cats and the dogs. I still find a few on them if they've been out into the bush.

You could build tick boxes. These are little wooden boxes with lots of holes drilled into them. You put in fish bait that smells bad (sold in sporting goods stores). put a lock on the box. Attach it to something. When it's full of ticks, you burn it. In Pennsylvania, the Fish/Game Dept uses them in the wooded areas near the beaches. The deer were being eaten alive by the ticks.

It's almost always summer here. The lowest temp we've had this winter is 60 degrees. So how come all the animals get "winter" fur?

Well you're in the tropics! Lucky you! I grew up in the tropics as well...never had to worry about anything, really! Our ticks didn't have diseases...and they weren't even that common...you had to really try HARD to get one on you! C'mon now...60 degrees is chilly when the average is 80! That blood will thin out eventually.

I like the idea of the tick box. Probably attract every nasty scavenger in my woods though!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

haha I myself have never heard of it and I do not think that the people around here would ever do that. Too "manly" lol

As for me....I'd die first.

ppl I'm working on updating and putting the scare up and some pictures too

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

I didn't know that there were so many varieties of mosquitoes until I lived here in Belize. They haven't been too bad this year, mostly little tiny ones. I have not seen the ones with the striped legs that carry dengue and malaria. Last year I had to put spray on the goats in the evenings or they'd keep me awake banging their head against the zinc panels trying to keep them away. If there is a mosi in the area, it will find me. I'm going to put in a dragonfly pond.

Ticks were bad here this year also. I use Brewers Yeast/Garlic tablets for the cats and the dogs. I still find a few on them if they've been out into the bush.

You could build tick boxes. These are little wooden boxes with lots of holes drilled into them. You put in fish bait that smells bad (sold in sporting goods stores). put a lock on the box. Attach it to something. When it's full of ticks, you burn it. In Pennsylvania, the Fish/Game Dept uses them in the wooded areas near the beaches. The deer were being eaten alive by the ticks.

It's almost always summer here. The lowest temp we've had this winter is 60 degrees. So how come all the animals get "winter" fur?

I didn't realize garlic and Brewers Yeast worked for ticks! Good to know! How do you get the cats and dogs to eat them?

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Ok so the other day I was taking care of the goats of course and when I jumped up onto the red gate (that's the gate's name) I looked across to see if I need to carry another bale and toss it into the hay feeder. Well I look over there and my hay feeder isn't there. My first thought was "this is a joke" then right after that I thought "someone took my freaking hay feeder and put it into another field". So I looked from the gate, across the buck field and the Nigerian field and don't see it. Then I looked thru the Kiko field and I see it. It's 10 yards away from where it was, and down hill and to the right. It's on it's side, hay spilled, all the goats standing around it eating hay. I had no idea how it got there and it was weird. Then I realize that my Arianna is underneath it. For those of you that don't know or remember what it looks like:

So picture that on it's side, lengthwise. I jumped over the gate (I don't open gate but instead go over them) and ran over there. Now she scared me pretty bad when I had seen that but here on out is funny. I run over and see that she was trapped under it and had her head (and horns) thru the cattle panel. So what she had done is she somehow put her head theu the cattle panel and got her horns thru too and couldn't get out. idk if that was that morning or the night before, as I don't check on them at night. It is strange how far she had dragged it so I'm thinking she must have gotten scared at one point by either the dogs, the night, or the goats. So I ran over there and was just hoping she was ok and would be ok. I kneeled down and told her it's ok and took a second to make sure she was ok and wanted her to stay calm and also I didn't want to move it yet. Thankfully she was laying in a natural way and way not being crushed, was laying weird,her neck was ok, etc. She was basically just laying down normal with her head in the air but was restrained. There was alot of hay in it though so I yanked the hay out and away from her head. Well she spun her head around and started eating the hay as I'm determining the best way to get her head out and her up. SHE WAS EATING THE HAY and was completely relaxed. Had this been any of the other Kikos it would have been hard to do. Then I lift the feeder up some and try to get her head out but wasn't really working so as I'm lifting the feeder up and moving it around to line the cattle panel up with her horns she is still laying there and is now chewing her cud. LOL I push her head thru, she is free and she just lays there chewing her cud. After a minute she lets up walks to the feeder and is eating hay from it. Then she pees and poops and then eats hay again. Now all the goats are back around all eating hay. I think she was under there for a bit though because there was a pile of poop under her and we all know that when goats are restrained and can't move, they do not poop because they would be under it. But she is 100% fine, relaxed, no cuts, no limping, no nothing. It was so funny though! Goat scared the crap out of me.

Now I'm going to get some pictures up that I took today.

 

[marlowmanor]

Ok so the other day I was taking care of the goats of course and when I jumped up onto the red gate (that's the gate's name) I looked across to see if I need to carry another bale and toss it into the hay feeder. Well I look over there and my hay feeder isn't there. My first thought was "this is a joke" then right after that I thought "someone took my freaking hay feeder and put it into another field". So I looked from the gate, across the buck field and the Nigerian field and don't see it. Then I looked thru the Kiko field and I see it. It's 10 yards away from where it was, and down hill and to the right. It's on it's side, hay spilled, all the goats standing around it eating hay. I had no idea how it got there and it was weird. Then I realize that my Arianna is underneath it. For those of you that don't know or remember what it looks like:

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/6788_july_2012_040.jpg

So picture that on it's side, lengthwise. I jumped over the gate (I don't open gate but instead go over them) and ran over there. Now she scared me pretty bad when I had seen that but here on out is funny. I run over and see that she was trapped under it and had her head (and horns) thru the cattle panel. So what she had done is she somehow put her head theu the cattle panel and got her horns thru too and couldn't get out. idk if that was that morning or the night before, as I don't check on them at night. It is strange how far she had dragged it so I'm thinking she must have gotten scared at one point by either the dogs, the night, or the goats. So I ran over there and was just hoping she was ok and would be ok. I kneeled down and told her it's ok and took a second to make sure she was ok and wanted her to stay calm and also I didn't want to move it yet. Thankfully she was laying in a natural way and way not being crushed, was laying weird,her neck was ok, etc. She was basically just laying down normal with her head in the air but was restrained. There was alot of hay in it though so I yanked the hay out and away from her head. Well she spun her head around and started eating the hay as I'm determining the best way to get her head out and her up. SHE WAS EATING THE HAY and was completely relaxed. Had this been any of the other Kikos it would have been hard to do. Then I lift the feeder up some and try to get her head out but wasn't really working so as I'm lifting the feeder up and moving it around to line the cattle panel up with her horns she is still laying there and is now chewing her cud. LOL I push her head thru, she is free and she just lays there chewing her cud. After a minute she lets up walks to the feeder and is eating hay from it. Then she pees and poops and then eats hay again. Now all the goats are back around all eating hay. I think she was under there for a bit though because there was a pile of poop under her and we all know that when goats are restrained and can't move, they do not poop because they would be under it. But she is 100% fine, relaxed, no cuts, no limping, no nothing. It was so funny though! Goat scared the crap out of me.

Now I'm going to get some pictures up that I took today.

Glad all was okay. Good thing it was Ariana in there not one of the others as she seems to be your calmest Kiko.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Glad all was okay. Good thing it was Ariana in there not one of the others as she seems to be your calmest Kiko.

By far! I think Moses would have killed himself by breaking his neck if I got within 10 ft. lol And Alana would have bit me. haha Crazy goat. Sis would be ok but would not have been as calm.

btw I have told you that Alana bites when restrained right? Yep. She knows she can't hit me so she tries to bite me. It is so funnny. Boy does that goat have an attitude issue.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Ok here's some pictures.

Coco

Coco

Heidi and C1 (Southern's goats)

Katie and her little bag starting. (Southern's goat)

Katie again (Southern's goat)

Heidi and C1 again (Southern's goat)

Katie. Isn't she a gorgeous goat? (Southern's goat)

Again (Southern's goat)

Buck shelter

Shelf for the bucks. Goat like that kind of thing.

The roof. It has a layer of plastic for rain protection then these boards.

D and Callie playing

Busy-body Arianna

:/

Callie looking sad

Her and D

Again

Fierce D!!

Callie sleeping while standing. She was just closing her eyes.

Moses

Moses

Sis

I didn't know that there were so many varieties of mosquitoes until I lived here in Belize. They haven't been too bad this year, mostly little tiny ones. I have not seen the ones with the striped legs that carry dengue and malaria. Last year I had to put spray on the goats in the evenings or they'd keep me awake banging their head against the zinc panels trying to keep them away. If there is a mosi in the area, it will find me. I'm going to put in a dragonfly pond.

Ticks were bad here this year also. I use Brewers Yeast/Garlic tablets for the cats and the dogs. I still find a few on them if they've been out into the bush.

You could build tick boxes. These are little wooden boxes with lots of holes drilled into them. You put in fish bait that smells bad (sold in sporting goods stores). put a lock on the box. Attach it to something. When it's full of ticks, you burn it. In Pennsylvania, the Fish/Game Dept uses them in the wooded areas near the beaches. The deer were being eaten alive by the ticks.

It's almost always summer here. The lowest temp we've had this winter is 60 degrees. So how come all the animals get "winter" fur?

I only see like two here but I'm no expert so idk. ha

Poor goats. I would think that they get pretty eaten up by therm there.

Ticks

That's a great idea. I should look into that. (I'll add it to my list of things to look into) ha

Winter fur in 60 degrees? I wish it was always 69 degrees, partly cloudy with a constant slight breeze. Best kind of weather and temp right there.

 

[marlowmanor]

Great photos! C1 needs a name. You can't just call her C1 all the time. You should name her if you plan to keep her. But heck I'll likely name the kids born here even though they likely won't stay. C1 is a pretty girl though. I'd gladly take her for my herd, but I may get some kids with similar coloring from my does too. Love Katie's coloring too, I love the unique face markings.
Buck shelter is nice and Callie is getting big!
It looks like you took a curling iron to Moses hair do!

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Great photos! C1 needs a name. You can't just call her C1 all the time. You should name her if you plan to keep her. But heck I'll likely name the kids born here even though they likely won't stay. C1 is a pretty girl though. I'd gladly take her for my herd, but I may get some kids with similar coloring from my does too. Love Katie's coloring too, I love the unique face markings.
Buck shelter is nice and Callie is getting big!
It looks like you took a curling iron to Moses hair do!

I betcha if he tried to come at Moses with a curling iron, SHK would be the only one getting touched with it