MyKidLuvsGreenEgz .. .. COLORADO IS BURNING

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Wait, you have goats already?

My work here is done.

 

[miss_thenorth]

This is a great site. It is much slower than BYC, but the quality of advice can't be beat

but that's a good thing--you can go out and do your chores, and come back on your break, (or down time) and not miss anything. I rarely go tot he other sites anymore--this one fits in with my lifestyle in more ways than one.


Welcome!!!

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

Morning chores take about 45 minutes (feeding and watering 4 goats and 65 chicks/chickens is time consuming!). Have about 15 chicks in the goat pen, then another 4 separate pens of chicks and chickens ... each get a little bit different mixture. Then there's our new chicken mama who hatched 3 eggs this past weekend ... I have to let her out for 5-10 minutes before I close her back up in her pen and let out the adults for the day.

I try to do these morning choes right after the kid gets up (since his last seizure happened as he woke up).

I check for eggs while he's watching America's Funniest Videos during lunch. Takes about 5 minutes (usually because I have about 10 chickens underfoot, begging for treats).

Then when he's busy with something in the late afternoon, I do chores again (takes about 20 minutes). Yes, I hurry.

Haven't even gotten the garden in yet! Not going to do much this year. All of this medical stuff with him so so new.

But ... gonna have to find some way to get him to help me outdoors. He hates being outside and doesn't care for the chickens or goats, but we have goat babies due any day now, and hope to soon have a seizure-alert service dog/puppy to begin to train. Maybe that will get him outdoors too.

Hope hope.

 

[Wifezilla]

About time you got over here!

 

[savingdogs]

Welcome! I see we have some things in common and I have some interests in common with you. We also have chickens and goats, have a family member recently diagnosed with epilepsy (hubby) and while we are not looking for a service dog, we have fostered dogs for many years and PLACED service dogs and one of our foster dogs became an epilepsy-assistant for her owner. Do you have a dog trainer assisting you in finding/training the dog?

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

Thanks, Wife.

Saving: I found a local foundation that gives $2,500 grants towards a service dog (which costs between $5,000 and $35,000!!!!), and she gave me three names of somewhat nearby trainers. I telephone-interviewed all 3. Chose one who got into it because of her autistic child and by accident found out that one of her trained dogs started alerting to that child's seizures. So she got into training for autism AND epilepsy. Seems like a perfect fit. Isn't witnessing a seizure terrifying? I hate leaving him alone for even a moment... keep my ears open at all times. Haven't slept solidly since his first seizure.

What kind of goats do you have? We have 3 nigerian dwarfs (2 does and 1 wether), and our buck is la mancha/nigerian cross.

I'll try to read journals soon. I need to get off now for the night .. haven't eaten dinner, and the Kid and I like to play 5 games of Uno before he turns in at 9. THEN I get started with housework and such. Argh!

Thanks everyone for the welcome. It's kinda like a family here!

 

[savingdogs]

I was hoping you were working with someone. I think there is a higher degree of success if you are working with some pros.

The dog I placed was with someone who had had several epilepsy service dogs, she was on her third one. She said she used one dog to train the next what to do.

Yes, witnessing a seizure is very scary.

I have two mini nubian does and a 3/4 nigerian dwarf offspring from one of them, a doeling 4 months old at this point.

It is like a family here.

 

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[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

One of my girls kidded this morning. Total 4 but 2 were born dead. The 2 survivors are girls but I'll be selling them. Still one more doe to kid .. any day now. The Mamas are nigerian dwarf and the papa, Peter, is an alpine/nubian cross.

Wow.... I'm busy today ... NOTHING I'd planned for today is gonna happen because, well, I have GOAT BABIES!!!

 

[savingdogs]

Four! goodness.....how sad two died but at least the survivors were doelings.