- Thread starter
- #511
Wehner Homestead
Herd Master
Haven’t been on since Sat. It’s been wild here. Will try to give details soon.
Wehner Homestead
- Thread starter Wehner Homestead
- Start date
Bruce
Herd Master
- Thread starter
- #513
Wehner Homestead
Herd Master
Wow! So much to tell y’all. I’ll try not to forget anything.
Going to cover the Friday issues first. My cut is better. Still tender if I bump it just right, think that’s from digging the rust out. Seems to be healing fine otherwise.
Left arm is no longer sore though was horrible to work through on Sat. One of my coworkers noticed my hand was swollen and had one of the docs check me out. Realized my whole shoulder was hot and red. Decided it was the tetanus shot versus an infection and to watch. Better Sunday and each day moving forward. (We all think it was given too high, making it more likely that a nerve was hit when given.)
Jewel hasn’t escaped her pen since the boards and mats were placed under the edges. Oddly enough, it’s like she feels safer.
DH successfully retrieved DD2’s birth certificate after an interesting trip through Louisville. Said it’s not something he’d ever want to do again! (I’ve now been on the hunt for our marriage license that I thought I knew where it was. Can find the receipt where we paid for it but not the marriage license! Ugh! That’s needed for insurance too.)
The sky was beautiful Friday night. DS even came and got me to look at it!
DD1 memorized 100 high frequency words to read as a Kindergartner at school. She’d been promised a kitten if she was successful and worked hard. (It’s the end of the year. She needed some encouragement to keep working hard.) Last Thursday, she finished her last test for them and so we picked up a kitten for her on Friday. Of course you can’t get just one so the plan was to get each of the kids one. (Friend had a stray show up with a litter, kittens young but mom not making enough milk, something got three of the kittens leaving two...so we took the two and another will be coming from another friend when it’s old enough to leave Mom.) We are having to supplement with canned kitten food and kitten chow that’s softened with a bit of goat milk. They seem to be thriving as the little orange male was getting runny eyes when we picked them up and was clear by Sunday evening.
DD1 picked first as her reward and picked the dark tiger female. She named her Disney. DS wanted the orange male so we agreed. He named his Wilson (like the sports ball manufacturer.) Both are fairly fuzzy like they might end up having medium length hair.
Disney
Wilson
We got Otis in. Through a variety of events and obligations, we didn’t get him in until Monday night. I was really stressing about waiting that long. (See the LGD thread for Queenie’s involvement.) Otis actually showed an interest in being moved, was quite docile and laid back, and had no mobility issues as observed by myself, DH, and my dad while in motion. He was obviously interested in grain and readily followed the bucket. None of us thought that he appeared underweight and we observed him passing stool without a single concern. We did opt to dump some Ivomec on him as a preventative. The whole situation is being chalked up to a miracle!
(I’ve tried to get a decent pic of just him and haven’t been successful.)
Had an issue with one of the older bucks (King) bothering Diamond’s two bucklings. It was a constant issue. Knight would even intervene and King would avoid them if I was holding a stick. If he wasn’t bugging them, he was violating them. We don’t feel that this is acceptable so DH split their current pen and Knight and King are on the slightly bigger side and Jackson and Jericho are on the other. It’s like the little guys sighed in relief and Knight keeps King in his place.
We’ve decided to sell King. He doesn’t fit into my breeding plan much as I plan to use Knight and Theo heavily and add some specific genetics next year. I have to get Nellie’s trips that he sired, registered and then I’ll advertise him. (I need to check and make sure he’s tattooed. I don’t think any in that purchase were actually done.)
The buck pen will be going down near the parking for the various trailers. This might eventually become a quarantine pen but we need to rework our barn paddocks, then I think the bucks will go toward the east border of our property. They will also need a full-time LGD or two. (We expect to have four to six Nigerian bucks, four to six Mini Lamancha bucks, and the possibility of Mini Nubians leaves the need for probably two more bucks, therefore, a decent-sized area will be required.)
DH is aggressively researching milking machines. I think we are quickly headed toward dairy status. I’m not sure how official we will be for awhile but I do know that he’s planning at least a functional milk room for me and whomever may have to fill in.
The Easter chicks appear to be 4 Roos and 8 pullets at this time. We will see if my theories hold true. I need to get updated pics. Most have crests and several have colored legs. 7 are a shade of blue.
Rock-a-Doodle has been caught breeding the girls. Watching closely to make sure that he doesn’t injure any of them. I’ll separate or cull him if necessary.
We now have two hens laying green eggs. It appeared that I got a blue egg one day but I’m now thinking it was just the lighting and it was actually green. I think there is one more pullet from Nov that isn’t laying yet based on production counts.
Egg eating has slowed down in the RIR pen. Culling the one has helped though I think someone else is still eating some. They’ve started laying in one of two designated places so I haven’t had an egg hunt lately.
CeCe and Sparkle are growing fast. They are eating a lot more hay, alfalfa pellets, and grain than they were. Both get a 32 Oz bottle twice a day. They still enjoy walkabout but have to know where Mom is. Sparkle is quite the sweetie and has a distress call for when she can’t find me. She nuzzles my neck after being separated from me.
I almost forgot that Faith has greatly improved. She has been greeting us when we come home. Her mouth is healing and she’s trying to avoid taking her meds but we keep sticking them in something different to tempt her. So far, so good.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten something so I’ll add later.
Going to cover the Friday issues first. My cut is better. Still tender if I bump it just right, think that’s from digging the rust out. Seems to be healing fine otherwise.
Left arm is no longer sore though was horrible to work through on Sat. One of my coworkers noticed my hand was swollen and had one of the docs check me out. Realized my whole shoulder was hot and red. Decided it was the tetanus shot versus an infection and to watch. Better Sunday and each day moving forward. (We all think it was given too high, making it more likely that a nerve was hit when given.)
Jewel hasn’t escaped her pen since the boards and mats were placed under the edges. Oddly enough, it’s like she feels safer.
DH successfully retrieved DD2’s birth certificate after an interesting trip through Louisville. Said it’s not something he’d ever want to do again! (I’ve now been on the hunt for our marriage license that I thought I knew where it was. Can find the receipt where we paid for it but not the marriage license! Ugh! That’s needed for insurance too.)
The sky was beautiful Friday night. DS even came and got me to look at it!
DD1 memorized 100 high frequency words to read as a Kindergartner at school. She’d been promised a kitten if she was successful and worked hard. (It’s the end of the year. She needed some encouragement to keep working hard.) Last Thursday, she finished her last test for them and so we picked up a kitten for her on Friday. Of course you can’t get just one so the plan was to get each of the kids one. (Friend had a stray show up with a litter, kittens young but mom not making enough milk, something got three of the kittens leaving two...so we took the two and another will be coming from another friend when it’s old enough to leave Mom.) We are having to supplement with canned kitten food and kitten chow that’s softened with a bit of goat milk. They seem to be thriving as the little orange male was getting runny eyes when we picked them up and was clear by Sunday evening.
DD1 picked first as her reward and picked the dark tiger female. She named her Disney. DS wanted the orange male so we agreed. He named his Wilson (like the sports ball manufacturer.) Both are fairly fuzzy like they might end up having medium length hair.
Disney
Wilson
We got Otis in. Through a variety of events and obligations, we didn’t get him in until Monday night. I was really stressing about waiting that long. (See the LGD thread for Queenie’s involvement.) Otis actually showed an interest in being moved, was quite docile and laid back, and had no mobility issues as observed by myself, DH, and my dad while in motion. He was obviously interested in grain and readily followed the bucket. None of us thought that he appeared underweight and we observed him passing stool without a single concern. We did opt to dump some Ivomec on him as a preventative. The whole situation is being chalked up to a miracle!
(I’ve tried to get a decent pic of just him and haven’t been successful.)
Had an issue with one of the older bucks (King) bothering Diamond’s two bucklings. It was a constant issue. Knight would even intervene and King would avoid them if I was holding a stick. If he wasn’t bugging them, he was violating them. We don’t feel that this is acceptable so DH split their current pen and Knight and King are on the slightly bigger side and Jackson and Jericho are on the other. It’s like the little guys sighed in relief and Knight keeps King in his place.
We’ve decided to sell King. He doesn’t fit into my breeding plan much as I plan to use Knight and Theo heavily and add some specific genetics next year. I have to get Nellie’s trips that he sired, registered and then I’ll advertise him. (I need to check and make sure he’s tattooed. I don’t think any in that purchase were actually done.)
The buck pen will be going down near the parking for the various trailers. This might eventually become a quarantine pen but we need to rework our barn paddocks, then I think the bucks will go toward the east border of our property. They will also need a full-time LGD or two. (We expect to have four to six Nigerian bucks, four to six Mini Lamancha bucks, and the possibility of Mini Nubians leaves the need for probably two more bucks, therefore, a decent-sized area will be required.)
DH is aggressively researching milking machines. I think we are quickly headed toward dairy status. I’m not sure how official we will be for awhile but I do know that he’s planning at least a functional milk room for me and whomever may have to fill in.
The Easter chicks appear to be 4 Roos and 8 pullets at this time. We will see if my theories hold true. I need to get updated pics. Most have crests and several have colored legs. 7 are a shade of blue.
Rock-a-Doodle has been caught breeding the girls. Watching closely to make sure that he doesn’t injure any of them. I’ll separate or cull him if necessary.
We now have two hens laying green eggs. It appeared that I got a blue egg one day but I’m now thinking it was just the lighting and it was actually green. I think there is one more pullet from Nov that isn’t laying yet based on production counts.
Egg eating has slowed down in the RIR pen. Culling the one has helped though I think someone else is still eating some. They’ve started laying in one of two designated places so I haven’t had an egg hunt lately.
CeCe and Sparkle are growing fast. They are eating a lot more hay, alfalfa pellets, and grain than they were. Both get a 32 Oz bottle twice a day. They still enjoy walkabout but have to know where Mom is. Sparkle is quite the sweetie and has a distress call for when she can’t find me. She nuzzles my neck after being separated from me.
I almost forgot that Faith has greatly improved. She has been greeting us when we come home. Her mouth is healing and she’s trying to avoid taking her meds but we keep sticking them in something different to tempt her. So far, so good.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten something so I’ll add later.
RollingAcres
Herd Master
So glad to hear that your cut is almost healed and better! Nice to hear that Jewel hasn't escaped and Faith has improved!
Your new addition are so darn cute!!! I know my son would love to have a cat, but unfortunately for him and myself, we are both allergic to cats.
Your new addition are so darn cute!!! I know my son would love to have a cat, but unfortunately for him and myself, we are both allergic to cats.
Bruce
Herd Master
Doesn't seem quite fair that DD1 does all the work and the other 2 also get kittens.
- Thread starter
- #517
Wehner Homestead
Herd Master
So someone posted pics of cute goats with pendulous ears. I believe it was Nubians but I truly can’t recall any details. Anyway, one of our 4-H kids helps with our kids on occasion and watches the farm when we go on our yearly vacation. We’ve adopted each other and she calls me her second mom and her pic is on my phone screen with the three I birthed. I’ll refer to her as AD (adopted daughter).
AD called all worked up last night. There’s been a lot going on there lately too. They raise show sheep and a Nubian was bought in milk last year to help feed some of the bottle babies. I recall there being production issues but no one knew if it was owner error (inexperience milking), stress, end of her lactation, etc. When she didn’t produce it was decided to move her to an elder family member’s house to be companion for a geriatric horse for the time being so that she was out of the way. Well since then, the horse has died and the goat has been horribly lonely. AD is going away to college in the fall and she was going over every day to care for the doe. Sending her to slaughter was mentioned and AD called me in a panic. Needless to say, I agreed.
A Nubian doe was delivered tonight! She seems very sweet, underweight, rough coat, and needs lots of work on her hooves. I have ADGA papers in hand but have the buyer’s name filled out as the girl that AD’s family bought her from. That might be a bit of a hitch...either way, we will now be breeding Mini Nubians to a small degree.
The current plan is to run a fecal and quarantine until that’s done. She hasn’t been around other goats for more than a year. I will have the rest of her testing done soon as I need to test the rest of my crew anyway before fall breeding commences.
I didn’t know anything off of her papers until tonight so I’ll share soon. We are calling her Blossom and I snapped some candid pics just to share.
Edited to add: She’s my Mother’s Day gift somehow...lol
AD called all worked up last night. There’s been a lot going on there lately too. They raise show sheep and a Nubian was bought in milk last year to help feed some of the bottle babies. I recall there being production issues but no one knew if it was owner error (inexperience milking), stress, end of her lactation, etc. When she didn’t produce it was decided to move her to an elder family member’s house to be companion for a geriatric horse for the time being so that she was out of the way. Well since then, the horse has died and the goat has been horribly lonely. AD is going away to college in the fall and she was going over every day to care for the doe. Sending her to slaughter was mentioned and AD called me in a panic. Needless to say, I agreed.
A Nubian doe was delivered tonight! She seems very sweet, underweight, rough coat, and needs lots of work on her hooves. I have ADGA papers in hand but have the buyer’s name filled out as the girl that AD’s family bought her from. That might be a bit of a hitch...either way, we will now be breeding Mini Nubians to a small degree.
The current plan is to run a fecal and quarantine until that’s done. She hasn’t been around other goats for more than a year. I will have the rest of her testing done soon as I need to test the rest of my crew anyway before fall breeding commences.
I didn’t know anything off of her papers until tonight so I’ll share soon. We are calling her Blossom and I snapped some candid pics just to share.
Edited to add: She’s my Mother’s Day gift somehow...lol
- Thread starter
- #518
Wehner Homestead
Herd Master
Need to clarify a few things...
@Latestarter I didn’t think you were being sassy. It’s been painfully clear that my memory isn’t what it used to be. There are worse things but as someone that remembers a lot, it’s hard to swallow. It’s really okay, just something I wish I wasn’t dealing with.
@Bruce I didn’t clarify all of the kitten details in the post. Trying to get too much out, too fast. If you recall from the cat introduction, DD2 had two kittens last year that didn’t survive somehow...thinking dogs that we don’t have any more. We owed her a kitten and that has been openly discussed. (DD1 had three cats prior to getting Disney and DD2 had none.) DS was promised a kitten when one of his cats got rough with DD2 and had to be rehomed over the winter. Won’t tolerate aggressive behavior and he cornered her. Was going to “off” him but someone was looking for a more defensive barn cat that no kids would be around so I sent him there. (Yes, he was neutrrrd at 6 mos so he wasn’t intact.) DS has one other cat still but he has a chronic upper respiratory infection and appears quite miserable at times so he’s going to “disappear” soon.
As far as the Nubian, I’d said I need to focus on the breeds I have now and improving my lines. Now I’ve got to figure out what I’m doing with this girl all the way around! Bring on the airplane ears though!!
After DH agreed last night, his comment was something along the lines of “looks like we may as well start a dairy now!” Lol
@Latestarter I didn’t think you were being sassy. It’s been painfully clear that my memory isn’t what it used to be. There are worse things but as someone that remembers a lot, it’s hard to swallow. It’s really okay, just something I wish I wasn’t dealing with.
@Bruce I didn’t clarify all of the kitten details in the post. Trying to get too much out, too fast. If you recall from the cat introduction, DD2 had two kittens last year that didn’t survive somehow...thinking dogs that we don’t have any more. We owed her a kitten and that has been openly discussed. (DD1 had three cats prior to getting Disney and DD2 had none.) DS was promised a kitten when one of his cats got rough with DD2 and had to be rehomed over the winter. Won’t tolerate aggressive behavior and he cornered her. Was going to “off” him but someone was looking for a more defensive barn cat that no kids would be around so I sent him there. (Yes, he was neutrrrd at 6 mos so he wasn’t intact.) DS has one other cat still but he has a chronic upper respiratory infection and appears quite miserable at times so he’s going to “disappear” soon.
As far as the Nubian, I’d said I need to focus on the breeds I have now and improving my lines. Now I’ve got to figure out what I’m doing with this girl all the way around! Bring on the airplane ears though!!
After DH agreed last night, his comment was something along the lines of “looks like we may as well start a dairy now!” Lol
Southern by choice
Herd Master
Nubians are so sweet! Congrats!
You really need to keep her in quarantine until you test her. You will be putting all your goats at risk. 30 -60 days and test while in quarantine.
She is dangerously thin.
Testing this week is ideal because stress will "cause" activity in any of the diseases, so it is the best time to test.
Yeah you will want to definitely test for CL Johnes and CAE. If she has been with sheep watch out for orf.
Also you will want to test her for G6S. That is a DNA test.
She does have a very sweet face! I do love our Ruby and her kids. I don't want a whole herd of Nubians but I sure do love the ones we have.
Sometimes I miss my Mini Nubians. But honestly it got to be too much with so many breeds. So many bucks, so many lines.
You really need to keep her in quarantine until you test her. You will be putting all your goats at risk. 30 -60 days and test while in quarantine.
She is dangerously thin.
Testing this week is ideal because stress will "cause" activity in any of the diseases, so it is the best time to test.
Yeah you will want to definitely test for CL Johnes and CAE. If she has been with sheep watch out for orf.
Also you will want to test her for G6S. That is a DNA test.
She does have a very sweet face! I do love our Ruby and her kids. I don't want a whole herd of Nubians but I sure do love the ones we have.
Sometimes I miss my Mini Nubians. But honestly it got to be too much with so many breeds. So many bucks, so many lines.
promiseacres
Herd Master
Just got caught up on your thread
glad things are going a bit better. I always react to a tetanus shot... :/
glad things are going a bit better. I always react to a tetanus shot... :/
