Molly's kidding thread~Buckley improved~just waitin' on a normal poo

[Dace]

Mornin' SD

Looks like you had a long exhausting night!

Can't wait to see some pics

My saying is a little nit different than OFG's.....
Goat owners = crazy!

 

[glenolam]

Hopefully she's out there getting pictures as we speak!

 

[Shiloh Acres]

Hope all is going well!

 

[TanksHill]

My saying is a little nit different than OFG's.....
Goat owners = crazy!

So true Dace, so true!!!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Goat owners = crazy!

Hey! I resemble that remark

YAY goat babies!!!!

 

[savingdogs]

I think things are going fair to good.This morning and late last night, we checked on Molly and Sebastian and they were doing fine. We did not see her nurse him but she slept by him. This morning she seemed to like him more.

Poor Donald slept in the chicken pen. He won't leave the electric cords for the heat lamps alone. I almost cried for him this morning though, he was in there shivering and his coat had a crust of ice. I will NOT do that again and we have to figure something else out for him. Stupid goat. During the day we put him in our dog yard but he keeps going for the cords there too. We sprayed bitter apple on them to see if that helps. So far this morning he is distracted by hay. I have to keep chasing him away. We had disassembled the buck pen and now I'm kicking myself. Maybe we need to set it back up (but it had no shelter) and make him a pallet walled, tarp covered temporary shelter.

Molly had nursed the kid, but mostly on one side. I milked the other side. It comes out really well, but she does not like being milked yet. I had to pin her against the side of the stall and "be the boss goat". I got the full size emptied out (fast!) but unfortunately just squirted it on the ground. After that the kid nursed that side too so I see she is nursing him and likes him a little better. But about that point, Donald had opened the gate ( I had not latched it) and came bursting into the stall. Molly ran out when he opened the door. I could have killed him. Molly now won't go back into the stall but keeps peering in like she can't quite figure things out. She is impossible for one person to catch. I put hay in there and fed them all their grain. I opened up Ginger's stall and let the babies all meet. Ginger likes Molly's baby more than Molly does but she realizes it isn't hers. I left them all in Ginger's stall though so they could get to know each other since Molly isn't being with her baby right now. The two bucklings look amazingly alike. One is just chocolate and the other black and their pinto markings are even similar.

I'm thinking that if I don't get them back together by tonight I'll lock Molly and him in there together after milking her when I have people to help me catch her and we'll put her on the stanchion tonight. I'll go out a few times and see if I can get her to nurse him during the day again if I see her go into the stall. If not I may give him this bottle I have, or put him in Mollys stall and see what happens if he starts bawling.

I got the poultry and dogs and rabbits all fed and was coming in to feed myself and the cats when I got vertigo. I have it now.......so I'm not walking down that slippery ramp to go take pictures. We don't have steps out the back, we have a ramp so the goats can come in the laundry room to be milked. But this morning the ramp is like a skating rink (this is the same ramp I fell on the other day....still sore). I have terrible balance from years of this disease.
I think it is vertigo "light" as I call it (migraine related vertigo attack as opposed to Meniere's disease vertigo attack, I have two kinds). I can function a little with the light vertigo. If not, I would not be typing, I'd be laying down puking. But I'm not good. Probably too much excitement. Happiness is stress too, you know. And I got too tired. So glad I did not have two in one day like Java is having, I would not have been able to do that.

So I promise pictures will come but not this second. I'm letting my meds kick in and may have to take a nap. Should be nicer for photo taking later when the sun comes out anyway.

I'm home alone today......vertigo always hits on the wrong times.

I hope I did the right thing putting him in Ginger's stall. He looked so cold and alone and it is only about 30 degrees here right now. I know Ginger won't hurt him but she might not let Molly in there.

I think Molly only likes that he nurses on her. She doesn't like HIM still. If anyone has any imput please let me know.

 

[Javamama]

Hope you feel better soon. I'm expecting I'll crash by Friday from all the excitement. I can feel my adrenals starting to go.
I don't have anything to do now but sit and wait. My friend is on her way to help and then I will move out to the barn - so I may be gone for awhile.

 

[glenolam]

I think you should keep both moms and babies together in one stall and put Donald in another (am I reading that right, that you have two stalls you could use?). Just keep checking in on them every now and then and keep up what you're doing.

 

[savingdogs]

Yes, I could do that glenolam. Problem is, the smaller stall is too small and it is much nicer. The heat lamp is out of the way and Donald cannot get the cords.

The bigger stall has a short roof. I'm five foot and have to duck my head. If we put a heat lamp in there it just isn't as safe. The cords have to stretch where they could reach them and the water is also mounted on that side. I'm afraid if that room were "full" it would not be good. Molly is much smaller than Ginger and cannot reach the light. Right now I'm not particularly happy about it but I'm hoping to get it real dried out in there.....everything is damp here all the time. I was tinking if it were not damp I could take the heat lamp out and put them all in there, no lamp.

I could put them all in the smaller one, but it is a tight fit. I'd have to take he water out overnight to make room. But I could do that if I removed everything else. Donald does NOT need the heat lamp and could then go into the big stall.

Earlier Ginger was mad at Molly for entering the small stall and trying to steal her kids.

Right now, Ginger is going in and out of the open smaller stall with the three kids and Molly is standing in the corner like she usually does. Maybe she is trying to forget she has kids. I wanna go down and check again but I'm afraid of that ramp righ tnow....maybe in a few.

Sorry if my typing i weird...can't proofread, dizzy.

 

[glenolam]

Too bad you can't rig up one of those heat barrells people have been talking about on BYH. That way you could put the girls and kids in the bigger stall with the barrell and the kids could have access to the heat while Dave gets the nicer small stall.

ETA - Does anyone know/think that might work with a really large/tall rubbermaid box or even a 13 gal garbage can? I know that means cords hanging down into the box, but if the girls aren't chewing on the cords maybe it would work. Or feed the cords through a PVC pipe - no way the goats could chew through that in the time between now and when the kids don't need the heat lamp anymore.