Hen23's Journal~Goodbye

[Henrietta23]

Nooooooooooooo!
DH is sick with a cold/allergies/sinus. NO!!! He needs to finish the interior barn wall and create a door in both that and the exterior barn wall. He can't be sick!
Ugh, this means I'm next.....
Babies come home Saturday morning and hopefully a Nubian soon after. We have to finish this! Never mind we don't have the electric strand across the top of the fence yet and all my chickens and ducks got under the barn and into the pen yesterday. I'm going to have to block their access with left over wire. I think I have one little chicken that can through no matter what.
Still waiting for confirmation that we can buy our Nubian of choice. Everyone who sees pictures thinks we should be the showier goat. I wish we could get both, but that would leave one, and there's no way I could have 5 and milk three.... and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Okay, read Free's memo to breathe. Back to work.
11.5 days of school.
4 days till kids.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Just got to reading the long weekend posts and let me say, those are some mighty beautiful goats you are looking at! Stella (the spotted one, right?) is just gorgeous!!
I love parti-colored animals

Hope you can avoid whatever DH has and that he gets to feeling better quickly! I'm fighting a sinus issue myself. I hate it when they start up the cropdusters. I always end up with some thoat or nose issue. Yuck...

 

[Henrietta23]

YAY!!! I heard back from him. We can have Donki (the dark brown one). He needs to get them off the farm as soon as possible so it looks like we're bring all three goats home this weekend. Whoa!
I really am going to have goats coming out of my ears.
Soooo.... in between two hellacious thunderstorms DH got the rest of the vertical wall supports up in the barn. He just needs to attach the plywood to them and I will add chicken wire above. He needs to make the two doors, exterior and interior and we'll be set for starters. I know we'll have to tweak and adjust things once they're here.
I need to call the vet tomorrow to arrange picking up the kids. I'm thinking they might be coming home Friday night rather than Sunday. To complicate everything DS has a baseball game at 11:00. Last Sat. 11:00 game got changed to 1:00 at the last minute. They better not pull anything like that this week.

:bun :bun :bun :bun :bun

 

[Henrietta23]

AND I got on the scale this morning to find I've lost 28 lbs. More to go but that was the first part of my goal.

:bun

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Congrats and Congrats!!

both on the goats AND on losing 28 pounds!!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Sweeeeeet!!!!

 

[Henrietta23]

Thanks!!

 

[Henrietta23]

I will be picking up the "Saanerhaslis" Friday at 6:30pm. Waiting for email to find out when I can get Donki.

 

[Henrietta23]

The interior stall wall is up. It is just over 4 feet tall with another 4 feet of chicken wire over it to keep the birds from getting in the stall. The floor has been cleared and scrubbed. I'm letting air out before I put down straw. DH has the interior door framed out. He needs to attach the solid bottom and I'll add chicken wire to the top half. We need better ventilation in there. I'm soaked!
He still needs to create the exterior door but other than that we're ready. Good thing since the vet called and said he'd forgotten a dinner engagement Friday night and I need to come earlier. DH will be at gymnastics with DS so my mom is going to assist me. I can just see trying to get one goat out of my car and down to the pen while trying to keep the other in the car. Much better if there are two of us and we bring them down together.

 

[justusnak]

Congrats on getting to bring the babies home.! Can I ask tho...why keep the chickens out? I mean...they wont hurt the goats...and the chickens will learn QUICK, to get out of the way. They will help "stir things up" in there, and eat any dropped feed. I can't waite to see them in thier new home....lucky you!