Did you get everything else figured out? I never heard from you about the goats so I suppose you found someone closer. I'm glad you're getting things taken care of, not a position I'd want to be in.
Anyone else have hunters swarming their area? There are Pick Up trucks EVERYWHERE.
We are always inundated with road hunters around our place.... my Mom has a 100+ acre property and she has a lot of trouble with slob hunters. The good folks are respectful and most stop at the farmhouse to get permission for hunting around the farm, then their are the idiots who think it is ok to pull off at the barn and shoot across the horse pasture at the next hillside (when the horses are out in the barn field and yes, she watched it happen). She actually had one idiot gripe at her for being near him when she caught him in HER tree stand. She now has to patrol the property numerous times a day to make sure her horses or other animals are OK. She saw another out of town hunter shoot into a group of deer and a fawn dropped, the hunter went up to it, saw it was a fawn and turned and just walked away.... she intercepted him before he got back to his truck and told him he needed to tag the deer. He argued with her until he found out she already had his license plate number from the truck and was notifying authorities of the incident. He did tag and take the fawn then.