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Ok this is really a heads up for renart and any other N. Kitsap residents!

My mother and I were aproached by a local off duty sheriff the other day. He warned us that there has been an un-specified number of confirmed cases of rabies in the local coyote packs.  The sheriffs office has not gone public with this as of yet, as they do not want to start a panic. But we were asked to quietly give the heads up to local farmers.

But please be aware, watch your self, and your livestock. There has been a few reports of daytime run ins with this growing pack. There is talk of a big hunt being put together locally here. And has been sudgested that if you have the proper amount of property, and see a coyote during the day, acting abnormally, to protect yourself and your livestock.

I know the pack that I have running here is quite large in numbers. I have personally counted 23 run through my property and my mothers proplerty in a short amount of time. Sounds unbelievable doesnt it? I wish! And I am just about certain that the pack that runs through my property will also run through renarts, as we are less than 3 miles apart.

Just wanted to put a quiet heads up about whats going on locally with our wild canine counterparts.

Ok now back to our regular programing.

Well things have taken a twist. I have decided I am gonna pull the plug and go a different direction.    So as of today I will be totally changing what I do. May not see ya much anymore. 

I think Elvira looks more like Moe

So my hubby made me my cabinet incubator I love it, I do move my eggs to a LG to hatch in. Why it keeps my cabinet clean and I don't need to up the humidity in the cabinet just the little LG.  I found a great site that has a heater and fan and therm all together, I'm going to order one in a couple of weeks and see if I can make another incubator or maybe I'll just see if I can make a nice brooder with it. Its a Incu Kit and its at the incubator warehouse. There are 3 sizes to choose from, now saying that Ive never used them so don't know if they work or not.  I was thinking of doing a frig incubator but just thought it was to big for me and I was afraid to mess with the freon stuff. 

    Oh my cabinet incubator has the same stuff that the GQF has, that's were I got all the parts. Oh I also have a PID unit to take care of the temp in it also. Its a plug and go incubator LOVR IT

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What ever you do DO NOT EVER LET ANYBODY EVEN A VET cut horns off. You will be so sorry. I have seen the mess that happens. I can tell you how to remove full horns with out cutting it just takes some time and a few of the green cheerios !

Uh yea, he's just gonna have to look doofie cause I'm not messin with them and I can't afford to have a vet come out! He's not hurting anyone and it actually gives him character so he'll have to live that way as long as he's here!

I agree I would not mess with his scur unless it becomes a problem.

As for bucks wanting to "play". Since I needed to keep the neck muscles built up for show. I put a wood spool in the pen. I taught my bucks that when they were on the spool we could "play". If they came at me while on the ground I would take their feet out from under them and pin them to the ground until they stopped struggling. This was very effective for mine. The reason I did this was that some times I would need somebody to care for the goats while we were gone. I also educated them about the "HOT SHOT"  and told the helpers to carry it anytime they needed to go in the pen. One little push of the button and they boyz would back off because they knew what went along with that buzzing sound.

I was not mean to these guys but I also was not about to take a chance of somebody getting hurt so I taught my bucks some basic manners. 
 

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Oh here are some goatie pics!! 

 

Ok this is Mr one horn, or also known as DKGH Emmy's Golden Edition  or Eddie, who is a bad boy playing in his hay!!  We are currently in the middle of making new hay feeders for both him and the girls!

 

 

 

These are my Togg/Nubian cross Doelings,  Cinnamon, Meg, and Chloe

 

 

Here are my older does  Fidelity, Future and Prime, and in back you can barely see my first gen mini Nubian Electra, she is the OLD Lady

at 9 almost 10 years, but she is my calmest and best buddy!!

You never told me you were raising Unicorns !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!          

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Oh here are some goatie pics!! 

Nice pics,

Yes that would be called a scur. It is the result of a disbudding job that was slightly less than perfect. 

Yessss, I know..... I didn't do the job myself, I am his third owner.  And thanks Robin, I think it does too!!  That is one job I am not looking forward too, and I am researching different disbudding irons, I want one that works well and quick! I will probably have to pay a lot more money but, I think it's worth it, if you can do an efficient job in short order. It's bad enough it has to be done, but, after having to rescue several horned goats from down the street, when they were trapped in the fence, it's a necessary evil!

DANG IT JIM ! ! !   just a few months ago I sold a very good iron for too cheap. Let me look I may still have the smaller one. You could have it you would just have to buy the tip for big goats. Also I would really like share info with you about burning and PLEASE don't use one of those STUPID BOXES to put the kid in.
 

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This is 3 shots of us getting ready to ba-be-que yesterday, and you can see Mr. Peeps watching from his perch in the window.weird window we got free from El Dumpo.....

See him yet ?

He was gobbling the whole time..

Weird light is a bar-be-que light, and Mr. Peeps did not appreciate the flash from the camera at all !!!

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Ouch! I had t Google it. I've seen it before, especially in some of my older relatives when I went to Europe to meet the family. I did not know the name for it. I had assumed it was related to arthritis, but that does not appear to be the case.

 

That needle procedure looks far less invasive than the hand surgery. I sure hope it works for you! Do you have to sleep with a hand splint? My mom was an O.T. and one of her areas of expertise was in hand and finger rehab, and she had all sorts of hand splints - some she made, others she adjusted. There was one that looked particularly painful, and Mom was always mad when she had a patient that was so neglected that they needed to use it - mostly people who have been in a coma for a very, very long time, curled up in fetal position for months. Their fingers had to be straightened a wee bit at a time, and there were little screws that had to be adjusted every few days, straightening the fingers a little bit at a time. Looked painful, like a torture rack for fingers. Mom would get so mad because with just a little therapy and flexing starting shortly after whatever the accident was that caused the coma, the patient could be spared a lot of pain and damage once they are out of the coma.

 

No, it not related to arthritis but it is most common in the northern Europe regions and more so  in the Irish and Scottish from what I've read about it. Naturally I am Irish, Scottish, English and Polish (God bless my Mom). My dad had a slight case, we didn't know what it was way back then and it also manifested itself when he was in his 60's.

Mine has been going on now for about 8 years and was speeding up as to its growth.

No hand splints needed. It is amazing.

 

Wow Mike!!  Are you sure we aren't related?? That is exactly my heritage?? Well if I understand you, was your dad the Scott, English and Irish and you mom Pole??  That's weird..... your not originally from MI are you???

My dad is Irish and English, and Mom was a Pole.