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[jbear]

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My favorite Bottle Tree is the one in Because of Winn Dixie..

Post a photo!!!!

Have you seen the movie/read the book? It's nothing fancy, so I guess it's Gloria Dumps story of why her bottles are there. They are 'the ghosts of all the things I've done wrong'.. Her bottles hang from a tree in her back yard. If you haven't seen the movie, it's good. It's one of my favorite movies I think. I like the sound track, the dog cracks me up. Plus, I love the author--I have almost all of her books.

Kate Dicamillo.

Also--how DO you put a title in your name thing?? Not that I need one that is different than the one that's there..but was just curious. Saw Rainwolf ask about it and that made me think of it..

edited to add:::: I looked for a photo, but can't find one of Gloria's tree specifically.

The ones people have been putting pictures up of are much much prettier! Especially the one with all those multi colored bottles.....

 

[jbear]

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hope you got some rest.

 

[Illia]

Sigh.

So several days ago, our Kinder (goat) buck suddenly fell under a terrible illness or something. He normally grazes out in his buck-territory with a Nubian Buck, and is just fine. . . However one day he was crying nonstop, standing out in the rain, and once I got to him - He was completely weak and skinny. If I pushed him, he'd fall and not get up. If I pulled him, he'd collapse and cry in place.

So, i introduced him to the does' pasture for emergency, allowing him a barn to be in, some hay to eat, and water to drink. Slowly over a few days he got better, but I NEVER saw him drink any.

Now that several days have passed, I checked on him today, and . . . He's practically near death. He didn't have the strength to leave the barn, but instead was collapsed over our milking stanchion. I picked him up, and he was completely limp. I placed him over by the hay to eat, and he just laid there. . . So, I got an oral dose syringe, "forced" him some water, and thankfully he drank it. I left him be for an hour, came back, and found he was strong enough to go back to the barn, but so weak that he tripped over a piece of lumber, and fell completely down on his side, crying out in the muck!

I picked him up, and had to syringe him some water w/baking soda dissolved into it, as I'd been told to do. He drank it, but golly he is weak and looks horrible. . . I'm terribly worried he'll die, and I have no clue why.

I'm wondering if maybe he ate a poisonous mushroom? Poisonous plant? (although I never saw such where he was) Or something else?

It isn't contagious, and it has to do with his gut. . . His gut is small and weak, and makes gaseous gurgling sounds a lot.


Long day for me, and it is only the morning. I hope I don't lose him.

 

[jbear]

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hope he will be okay Illia.
and that you can find out what he may have gotten into. That's always my big fear, and I am totally paranoid about it with my goats.... Our neighbors horse pasture has TONS and TONS and TONS of tansy in it and I am finding it in our lawn periodically now and in our other neighbors grass too. frustrating.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Yes, you do.

 

[pongoid]

Whats Tansy? I am in Lake Tapps too!

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

I hope he pulls through
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[PitterPatterPalace]

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Not us here...

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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"Downtown Seattle Feed Store" but that may be too long

Here in Seattle, we get pretty defensive about the neighborhoods we live in, so... Downtown wouldn't work but maybe 'Gateway Feed' since your the center of the food web if you wanna go for that.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

So it has been a long month without eggs for us.

We had decided that we weren't going to supplement the light but a few of our girls seem to be done with their molt. When are they ever going to start to lay again???