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[dldolan]

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Congrats! How eggsciting!

I can't wait for my Blehm girls to start laying. Halfway there! I am jealous!!!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Ok, so today was very aggravating. It is hot as usual, and all day I have been working outside, then when it gets unbearable, I go in for a while.Finally finished the latest pen in the barn, which I am using for silkies. So it's 7 pm and finally cooling off a little , so I get ready to feed the animals. Carrying a bucket of feed, I discover that the bucklings have broken in to chicken city and eaten a whole feeder of layer pellets. I chase them out of there and lure them into another pasture so I can drive the mule through with the feed buckets without getting mugged. I get to the first gate, and there is Lena , who is supposed to be keeping Jack company. Instead she is loose on Huckleberry Hill. So I catch her and put her back in the proper pen. I feed those goats, and proceed to the next pasture. What do I discover? Buttons, Thelma, and Louise have somehow gotten into a pasture that is supposed to be closed off. I feed the goats that are where they are supposed to be, and let those girls think about how to get back . At this point I have no patience left for chasing errant goats. I need to get the chickens put away before it gets totally dark and the predators start eating them. The speckled Sussex and silver laced Wyandottes are in their coop, but I forgot the goats ripped the door off, so I have to go get the drill and a hammer, plus some screws to fix it. But the power is not flowing through the extension cord. I figure that out, lose two screws and it is nearly dark. But now the door is back on. I start back to the barn to get more chicken feed, and there is Domino! She was supposed to be behind the garage because I separated her from her doeling today, so she can be weaned . Now understand, we have been putting up fences for years now on our little 10 acre farm. I even put up hotwires but they keep breaking down. I have resorted to barbed wire along the top in places, but it has been so hot I don't have it everywhere yet. Darned goats just stomp down the fence like an accordion and jump over!

I am on my last nerve at this point. Going into the garage, I check the incubators . And discover a chick smushed to death by the automatic turner!

I don't like those metal turners, it is very hard to access the inside with them sloping like they do. The other chick is ok so I get it out of there, and head back to the house for a bath. I need it!

 

[emvickrey]

GEEZ what a day you had. I laid around most of the day. I got stug by a centipede and had to take benadryl and it had me knocked out most of the day. I needed to do work around here but wasn't able.

I never knew a centapede would sting or bite a person. I also didn't know they where poisonous. This fella got me good. buried it's stingers deep in my foot.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Ya, that's one of the few bugs that hasn't bitten me yet. I got nailed by two horseflies today. Last time I got stung by a hornet I took Benadryl but my finger swelled up like a sausage anyways. It sure does make me sleepy to take that stuff. But it beats anaphylaxis !
How is your grandson doing, Em?

 

[missred871]

sheesh good to know I am not the only one dealin with farm bird/chick drama, however it is safe to say I dont have goat drama, this is exactly why I dont have goats.... mmhhmm lol

 

[tazcat70]

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You are making me seriously think twice about goats....

I am sorry you had a rough day.

 

[CapricornFarm]

You know, I really love them! Especially the bottle fed ones. But goats, like myself, are stubborn. And if they see something they want, they go for it. Mostly it is the bucks that are the worst when the does come in season. At least they generally don't run away when the break out. Eventually any animal will get out, we have elk down the road from us, and even though the guy has a really tall fence , they get out sometimes. There were horses on the road last week. One lady free ranges her guineas and I have seen at least three of them dead on the road.

My favorite goat, Sasha, is a bad fence stomper. Right now she is in the old buck pen. But she is such a love, she will rub her head against mine when I am feeling sad. I was going to take Lena to the sale because she is always getting out, but I just looked at those sweet eyes and I could not do it to her.It was so hot, and I think she's pregnant. Plus she was one of my bottle kids.i am such a sucker

 

[NEK38583]

The worst thing I have had happen to me lately about something getting out was a little 3 week old serama jump out of the brooder I had it in and ran under a bunch a junk in the garage where I keep them. I like to had bever had found it. I bet I chased that little bugger of two hours.

 

[Cydney83]

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Wow....so sorry....hmmmm are dwarf goats hard to keep in?!....DH and all the kids....5 out of 4 want to goat.....

 

[CapricornFarm]

I don't know about the little guys, I never had them. But you would need a fence with small spaces between the wires so they couldn't slip through. I used to panic when goats got out, but now I just deal with it. But the other day I was hot and tired and not in the mood. The bucklings getting into chicken city were my fault because I left a gate ajar. I just hope they didn't bloat after all that chicken feed. I need to go check them. At least the goats don't run away and raccoons don't eat them