Weekend Woes.....
Nov. 6th, 2011 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiberaddictThis weekend has been weird, all over. Yesterday....a lot of bluster, but not a lot of completion. The kids got the milk room cleaned (more on that in a minute), but that's about it.
We ran to our vet, and got blocked by the receptionist. I...dunno what's up with her. We requested a bottle of Lute - she had no clue. I explained - we use it to abort our goats when a buck manages to wiggle into the doe pen. She got ALL indignant - "OH. HE won't DO that. You can cause uterine infections from that! No, he won't sell you THAT."
Ummm.......we're at 12 days post exposure. We're not talking full-term kids, here - we're talking a small mass of cells that have JUST started to divide (if that - we don't even know FOR SURE that Trouble actually *bred* any body). Uterine infections? Not this early.
So, we went across the street to the vet I don't like. HE had NO problem selling us 2 bottles of Lute - he asked us what we were gonna do with it; SG started to stutter, so I stepped in "2 ccs per doe, just to be sure of no cross-breeds; we can either re-do 2ccs in 11 days to "force" a cycle, or we can wait for it to occur naturally" and he said "Hey - I'll sell ya 2 bottles, 20 bottles, whatever - just decide how many ya want." Totally an odd experience - at BOTH vets.
We then spent the next hour luting the doe herd. EVERYBODY but the 2 doelings got popped....ever tried to medicate 1 goat out of 16? Not as easy as you'd think, because ALL of them wanted some of whatever the current patient was getting. :sigh:
So. Today. Himself and I go out to milk. Annie is an angel - no problems with the clean milkroom. Zorra FREAKED out - the milkstand! It's not *hers* (they mixed up Annie's and hers. No biggie, you'd think. You'd be wrong...)! Inara freaked out because the door! It was ~partially closed~!!! And the stand! It had a.....mat...on it!!!!
Long story short - Zorra wrenched my arm in the battle to get her on the stand. She did win that one - I ended up milking her on the floor. Inara ended up on the stand, just because I can shove her with my knees. Risky got on the stand, all right....then proceeded to kick of the inflations because I didn't get there before she decided she was done (I was removing coats from the other goats). :sigh:
SG is currently putting up more fence; the kids are finishing up school. (I have to work tomorrow, so - school today.)
SG is off Mon/Tues/Wed. Wed I knew about - there's some issues with his house he has to deal with - but Mon/Tues was a bonus. We'll see how it goes...:lol:
Off to try and rest - I think Zorra tore some scar tissue in my elbow. :sigh: I have a headache, and my Dad is coming out at 2....I need to rest a bit. Aspirin hasn't helped yet.....
We ran to our vet, and got blocked by the receptionist. I...dunno what's up with her. We requested a bottle of Lute - she had no clue. I explained - we use it to abort our goats when a buck manages to wiggle into the doe pen. She got ALL indignant - "OH. HE won't DO that. You can cause uterine infections from that! No, he won't sell you THAT."
Ummm.......we're at 12 days post exposure. We're not talking full-term kids, here - we're talking a small mass of cells that have JUST started to divide (if that - we don't even know FOR SURE that Trouble actually *bred* any body). Uterine infections? Not this early.
So, we went across the street to the vet I don't like. HE had NO problem selling us 2 bottles of Lute - he asked us what we were gonna do with it; SG started to stutter, so I stepped in "2 ccs per doe, just to be sure of no cross-breeds; we can either re-do 2ccs in 11 days to "force" a cycle, or we can wait for it to occur naturally" and he said "Hey - I'll sell ya 2 bottles, 20 bottles, whatever - just decide how many ya want." Totally an odd experience - at BOTH vets.
We then spent the next hour luting the doe herd. EVERYBODY but the 2 doelings got popped....ever tried to medicate 1 goat out of 16? Not as easy as you'd think, because ALL of them wanted some of whatever the current patient was getting. :sigh:
So. Today. Himself and I go out to milk. Annie is an angel - no problems with the clean milkroom. Zorra FREAKED out - the milkstand! It's not *hers* (they mixed up Annie's and hers. No biggie, you'd think. You'd be wrong...)! Inara freaked out because the door! It was ~partially closed~!!! And the stand! It had a.....mat...on it!!!!
Long story short - Zorra wrenched my arm in the battle to get her on the stand. She did win that one - I ended up milking her on the floor. Inara ended up on the stand, just because I can shove her with my knees. Risky got on the stand, all right....then proceeded to kick of the inflations because I didn't get there before she decided she was done (I was removing coats from the other goats). :sigh:
SG is currently putting up more fence; the kids are finishing up school. (I have to work tomorrow, so - school today.)
SG is off Mon/Tues/Wed. Wed I knew about - there's some issues with his house he has to deal with - but Mon/Tues was a bonus. We'll see how it goes...:lol:
Off to try and rest - I think Zorra tore some scar tissue in my elbow. :sigh: I have a headache, and my Dad is coming out at 2....I need to rest a bit. Aspirin hasn't helped yet.....
aNNa SayS:
Date: 2011-11-07 01:44 pm (UTC)We had goat adventures this week, too - made the boy pen twice as big as it was (and it was... painfully small). But the next morning, we went out, and one of the bucks is limping. I'm not sure if he stepped on something in the expanded area, or if he twisted his hoof in a pothole or if he just got excited at the new space and jumped off the BACK of his house (he can do that, now), and landed wrong. There's no blood, nothing looks out of place, and he didn't bawl or even grunt when we checked it over, so we think it's just a sprain, but still. Hrmph.
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Date: 2011-11-07 04:57 pm (UTC)Question for you? I need the cheapest colored wool roving for a 4-H wet felting craft...suggestions on where to buy?? Thanks ~ ali
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Date: 2011-11-07 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-07 09:24 pm (UTC)Cheap roving........ The Sheep Shed is really good - and my favorite. So is Paradise Fibers.
To be honest, it's been SO long since I've purchased wool, I don't know who's who any more. I know The Sheep Shed has good stuff, and good prices (they do "mill ends" from a large supplier, so the prices are really good)