tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9950849201315643742024-02-06T20:28:11.435-06:00Life With the GoodwifeWelcome to the Goodwife's blog! Here I write about our lives and the journey God is taking us on. It's a wild and wonderful ride, full of happiness and the occasional heartbreak, but the one constant is our love for Jesus Christ and our faith that God has a plan for us! We strive to submit to His will for our lives in all ways. We try to be good stewards of the land and animals God has blessed us with. Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.comBlogger499125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-20803811735170319432015-11-25T16:31:00.001-06:002015-11-25T16:31:32.999-06:00Looong Overdue Rabbit Report<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello Folks, The Youngun here! It's been a long time since we've last spoken. Every weekend has seemed busier than the last, but now that I'm on Thanksgiving Break I have some much needed free time to give a bunny update. So much has happened...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">First, I have a brand-spanking new rabbit barn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">The bunnies were moved into this new barn this past weekend and I LOVE it....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I really like the front border/trim on the door...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">There is plenty of room for all of my bunnies, and they all are enjoying the new barn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><strong><u>Tauriel</u></strong></span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="font-family: "verdana";"></span></u></strong> <span style="font-family: "verdana";">I'm sure you all remember Miss Tauriel, my Rex doe. Unfortunately, we had to put her down recently for several different reasons. The poor baby had VERY sore hocks that would bleed often even with straw covering almost her entire cage. She was saggy and unhappy, and she would only leave her nest box to eat and drink, which wasn't much. Her fur was patchy and unhealthy looking, and looking into her eyes, I felt sorry for her, because I could see the pain in her eyes. I didn't want to breed the poor thing while she was in such unfortunate condition, and with zero improvements, actually a worsening in health, after a couple of months, I had her put down to keep her from suffering. She was a decent rabbit and gave me three litters, which I thank her for, along with her gorgeous and heart-capturing legacy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(FYI: It just made my heart ache with joy when I found those pictures...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">A member of Tauriel's second litter, he was the first gold-tipped steel I had ever seen in my life. I thought he was just gorgeous, and my mom let me keep him. And I am SOOOO glad I did...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Titan is my GORGEOUS baby, who loves me just as much as I love him. He comes to me every time I open his cage for kisses and loves to be petted and stroked and held. He is a big boy, bigger than his daddy Spartan... (I will include some comparison pictures here)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Spartan, Titan, Spartan, Titan)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"> ...with pretty nice type. He has certainly matured well and he will always be my favorite. He has fathered two litters so far and I hope he will father lots more before he receives an already well-earned comfortable and lavished retirement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some pics of Elvy's kits... The last picture is the buck cage, since they've been weaned. As you can tell from the second and third picture, we have an oddball in Elvy's doe kits... I am very intrigued by this young doe's coloring!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Eden also has kits... Five of them... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Now, if you have been keeping up with my herd, you'll know that both of my bucks are now related, and in order for nothing freaky or unhealthy to show up, I wanted some does from different lineage. For example, if I were to keep a replacement doe for Tauriel out of Spartan, she would have to be bred back to either her brother or her father, and if I kept one out of Titan, then she would have to be bred either to her father or grandfather. That isn't necessarily unacceptable, however, I would rather be able to breed whoever to whoever I want without having to pause and think, are they related, and if so, how? And if they are brother and sister, will the kits be healthy?? Nobody wants that stress, so I consulted the wonderful world of the Internet, and began my search for a new doe. I saw one doe I liked several times, and she didn't appear to be selling, but I wasn't expecting to get another doe until springtime, and I still wasn't quite sure what I was wanting into my herd. After seeing this doe about four or five times, I asked my mom about her, and it turned out she belonged to a coworker of hers. My mom told them I was interested, and when my parents got home the next night, there were two rabbits in dog crates in their car. One was a tricolored dilute doe that looked like this....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tri-colored doe settled in very nicely. I named her SaraBeth, and within a few hours she was hopping around her cage animatedly, grooming herself, eating hay, and using the bathroom in a regular manner. I was told she was wild and not very nice, however she is the SWEETEST doe I have ever met, very curious and interested in everything I do in her cage, excited to be petted and held, and just very positive mannered in general. She would eat out of my hand very shortly after being moved to the back porch, and was very curious about anything I held in my hand or reached for in her cage, but not pushy at all. In short, I fell in love upon meeting this doe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The other doe, however, didn't settle in as gracefully as SaraBeth. She received the name Lacey, and although she seemed healthy, she sat in her cage lethargically, seemed sluggish, and didn't eat, drink, or use the restroom hardly any the entire three days she was on the back porch. By, hardly any, I mean there was no poop that I could see, unless she had been eating it, and she didn't touch her pellets to my knowledge, just nibbled some hay, and didn't drink much, if any, water. As the beginner rabbit raiser that I am, my research immediately led GI stasis to my attention. Out of worry and the, lets say, not so good outlook on rabbits that get it, I started giving Lacey mint, greens, and parsley in small amounts about three times a day. This didn't help her bathroom problems or her pellet eating, but at least she was getting moisture from that green food. By Sunday, we were ready to move rabbits and I was a bit more relaxed, because somehow I knew once we got Lacey out with the other rabbits and she could observe them eating, drinking, hopping, etc, she would want to do the same. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After the barn was finished, I moved them to two brand new cages out in the new barn with the other rabbits. SaraBeth settled in at an almost alarming rate, drinking plenty, eating lots of pellets, ANNIHILATING any hay I put in her cage, and pooping very regularly. Lacey caught up slowly, but FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY, after what felt like an eternity, but was only like two days, I started to see small indentations in her pellets when I went to check, and slightly misshapen, but present, poop on the ground. And then as of this morning, she has completely settled in. She is eating plenty of pellets, enjoying human contact better, pooping normally and finally drinking out of her crock! I was ecstatic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Perhaps I freaked out a little too much... Okay... I was crazy... But rabbits are kind of confusing sometimes, and you don't always know why the crap they do things that they do... And sometimes research can lead you to think the worst. I'm sure all of you rabbit people out there can relate, am I right?? ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Both does had a tiny touch of ear mites, so we gave them a shot of Ivomec, and kept them out of contact with the other rabbits, as I've heard it is very contagious. Now their ears are soft and pink again, no yucky crusties!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <strong>The previous owner said that SaraBeth ate her babies, however I know of several ways to prevent that, and if any of you other rabbit folks out there have any input on those unfortunate incidents, your advice would be greatly appreciated! :) I was also told that Lacey wouldn't take when breeding, so she had never kindled even after being bred to two separate bucks... So again, any information or advice on getting does to take would be appreciated!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Phew! Sorry for such a long post! I'm sure you lovelies don't have much time to sit around reading my book! But anyways, have an amazing Thanksgiving and I'll try not to wait so long before posting again! </span></div>
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I really never stop canning. I make soups and stews and can dried beans all year round, but the busy canning season is in the summer and it is winding down.</div>
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I canned the last of the butternut squash two weekends ago and that rounded out a very bountiful harvest! </div>
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<li>31 pints sweet corn</li>
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<li>2 pints dill spears</li>
<li>29 quarts butternut squash</li>
<li>2 quarts mixed corn and squash</li>
<li>15 quarts tomatoes</li>
<li>7 pints sweet relish</li>
<li>7 pints bread and butter pickles</li>
<li>12 pints zesty bread and butter pickles</li>
<li>6 pints mulberry jam</li>
<li>9 pints summer squash</li>
<li>4 pints pickled beets</li>
<li>22 pints green beans</li>
<li>57 lbs of red potatoes</li>
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The garden has been tilled in preparation for the fall crops of kale, turnips, beets (for greens), green onions, and mustard greens. I've found that beet greens are just about my favorite type of green, so I can't wait for those to come up!</div>
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These fellers were oh so happy to get the canning leavings and I'm oh so glad to share with them, as it makes for such delicious pork! They are getting all the leftovers from canning as well as lots of surplus eggs and milk and as you can see it they are doing well!</div>
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<br />Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-87315985367120704202015-08-10T16:48:00.000-05:002015-08-10T16:48:00.272-05:00Re-evaluating Goat Kids - What a Difference a Couple Months Makes......<div style="text-align: center;">
So as we may remember, when <a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2015/03/theyre-here-theyre-here.html" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">little Merida was born</span></i></b></a>, I was totally smitten. She was such a darling little spotted thing and such a sweet little lover. And <a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2015/03/tulips-last-hurrah.html" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: blue;">then Erika came</span></b></i></a> and she was so beautiful! As they began to grow, I decided I couldn't bear to let Erika go and worked things out with Jen to just pay her for Erika and that way with giving her Fancy and the money we'd be squared away.</div>
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As Erika and Merida have grown, some things have become very obvious....</div>
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My little Merida, while still with her lovely moon spots....</div>
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Yes, that's what I said......a PUKE! Her conformation is HORRID. </div>
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It's not the best, but Erika is taller, wider, more level on the topline and has a prettier head. The vet botched Merida's disbudding, so she's got scurs, but even without that, Erika is so much nicer of a doe in all ways. Most importantly, Erika is a much more loving doe. Merida really doesn't care to be messed with. She isn't afraid at all, but she isn't into affection. Erika on the other hand is a great deal like Tulip, but not near as bossy. She will stand in ecstasy to have her butt scratched, and loves to be loved on.</div>
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You can see how wide in the chest Erika and Bear are compared to Merida. Bear is destined for the freezer and I will continue to reevaluate Merida as time goes on, however I'm almost certain I won't be keeping her. She'll most likely be freezer bound as well, as I'm always much more comfortable with knowing an animal is nourishing us as opposed to wondering if they are healthy and being cared for!</div>
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One of the very first things I noticed about Tulip when I got to Jennifer's to pick her up was she now had a huge, lacy, white patch on her left shoulder/side. I commented on it and said "That's new!" <br />
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I didn't think too much more of it and brought her home.</div>
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I've always been very aware that goats need a great deal of copper, and have always kept out the best loose mineral that I could buy in my area, being Manna Pro Goat Mineral which contains 1350 ppm (minimum) at all times. The goats love it and eat it right up. Both Tulip and Star during their pregnancies ate this at a rate of about 8 lbs per month to 6 weeks!</div>
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When Star got sick with Barber Pole, I began to do a great deal of research on it and what I was finding was that goats with copper deficiency tend to have trouble with Barber Pole, as well as other symptoms, including coat color issues.</div>
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This got me thinking about Tulip's "white shoulder". I went out and checked her over, and while she had no other symptoms, I did notice that the large, lacy white patch on her left shoulder wasn't nearly as pronounced as it had been, presumably due to the constant access to loose mineral and the rate at which she consumed it during her pregnancy.</div>
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I also noticed that Star has white places around her "armpits" and her throat area. <br />
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You can also see her black skin along her sides and on her legs. I thought it was because she was so huge from carrying the triplets that she'd rubbed the hair off her sides, but in my research I've found that hair loss is another symptom of copper deficiency (or can be a zinc deficiency).</div>
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I know all about black goats (and horses as well) having a reddish cast when they are copper deficient, but had no idea about white patches appearing or the <b><i><a href="http://www.saanendoah.com/copper1.html" target="_blank">goat even turning white entirely!</a></i></b></div>
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I have copper bolused both girls and am going to bolus the kids as soon as they are old enough. I am excited to see if Tulip's lacy white shoulder disappears completely, and if Star's armpits and throat area turn back to her regular color.<br />
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So I bolused Star the end of April, and then again the end of May. The first time I dosed her I gave her the dosage for her weight. Then 30 days later I bolused her again with 1 1/2 times the dose for her weight. So in 30 days she got almost 3 doses of copper.<br />
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Star looks fantastic now. She's had no more trouble with worms, and her coat is as sleek as it's ever been. As you can see she's still lighter colored in the armpit area and in her chest. I'll be curious to see if that ever totally goes away.<br />
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Keeping goats is always such a learning experience, and I have to say I am very thankful to have access to the internet which is a wealth of information, although you do have to be careful to weed out the crazies, do your homework, and use your head!<br />
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God has blessed us this year with a most bountiful garden! </div>
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We've been canning corn, squash, green beans and making salsa. We've dug the onions and have them hanging on the back porch, and have been digging taters here and there. We won't dig all of them until the cukes and squash are done as the vines have spread so, they are covering the spuds up!</div>
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These are the pickle of my childhood. They are my favorite pickle. Potato salad isn't potato salad without chunks of lime pickle in it, and a hamburger just doesn't taste the same without them, but the best of the best is lime pickles diced up in your bowl of chili, or wait is it lime pickles on a peanut butter sandwich? I don't know but I know lime pickles are fantastic!</div>
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I have heard these called "outhouse pickles" or even the ever so classy "sh!thouse pickles", but we always just call them lime pickles.</div>
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So I've been a bit MIA recently. My current favorite song is Biscuits by Kacey Musgraves. My favorite line in the song is "Own your own crazy" which I totally try to do. So in that spirit here is where I've been.....</div>
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Just taking a blog/internet break. I can get a bit obsessive about reading and commenting, and checking to see if anybody has commented and when it starts to get a little out of hand for me, I have to make myself take a break! </div>
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I'm a weirdo about certain things and I totally "own" my crazy on it. I feel if I follow that I have to comment because I don't want people's feelings to get hurt, and I feel as if people are reading me and they don't comment that they don't like me, or don't like what I said, or think I'm a total idiot or whatever, and usually I can keep that all in perspective, but not always, so when it starts to spiral out of control, I have to take a break and get my crazy train back in the depot............SO...................that's what I've been doing. I may be back, and I may not, but anywho, here's what's going on around this joint.....<br />
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The garden is growing like gangbusters!<br />
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They are Eden's litter with Presley, and Elvie's litter with Spartan. This is our first full Silver Fox litter and the growth rate of them is quite pleasing! One of the does weighed 3.8# at 7 1/2 weeks! They are a little over 8 weeks old now, and will be getting butchered soon. We don't have any breedings planned for the next month or so, due to the heat.</div>
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<br />Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-13335206476259829862015-05-09T06:00:00.000-05:002015-05-09T06:00:04.351-05:00Confessions of a Goodwife........The Triple Teat Tale......<div style="text-align: center;">
So if you've read my blog for long, you know I'm a<i style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/search/label/confessions" target="_blank">compulsive confessor.</a> </i>I just feel as if I don't give ALL the information that I'm somehow being less than honest and I can't stand that feeling. So in light of that.....it's time for another episode of.....</div>
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Remember when I wanted a fool proof way to tell if Tulip was pregnant?</div>
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And so I <b><i><a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2014/12/whats-best-most-foolproof-way-to-tell.html" target="_blank">bought this handsome little fella</a>?</i></b></div>
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Well what I didn't tell you was.....Ollie has an extra teat!<br />
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The first thing I did when I went to look at him, was stand him up and check his teats. This isn't an uncommon problem in goats, but is quite undesirable in dairy goats. Several years ago, I went to buy a registered Kinder doeling from a really prominent Kinder breeder in IL. The doeling that I fell in love with, when we checked her over, had an extra teat, so I didn't buy her. I hesitated for just a bit about buying him, but I really wanted to know if Tulip was bred, and he was so cute that I went ahead.</div>
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I needed a buck to "test" Tulip and wasn't planning to keep the kids anyway, so wasn't too worried about it at the time. Ollie was a healthy buck and sweet and friendly which was my main concern so home with us he came!<br />
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Then once I was 95% sure Tulip was bred, the doubts began to creep in. I began to worry myself silly over that extra teat. Worry about passing it on, even though i wasn't planing to keep any kids out of him. Worry over telling people about the extra teat, and worry about Jennifer getting a doeling from Star, out of a buck with extra teats! So...much....worry!<br />
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I mentioned selling him to The Man and The Youngun on several occasions, but they were always thinking, but he's so sweet, and we know he's healthy and he's so CUTE! All the while in the back of my head, I knew selling him was the right thing for me to do, with full disclosure of course. If I wasn't afraid he was too old to wether, I'd do that as well and then sell him!<br />
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Then, God took the decision out of my hands as He so often does when I dither....<br />
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Star got sick, and I felt she wasn't going to be in any shape to be bred this fall. Tulip is retired, and I don't breed young does until they are around 18 months old. That means I will be feeding Ollie for 2 years and not using him for ANYTHING. That just doesn't make good homestead sense.<br />
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So Ollie went to his new home Thursday night. A lovely couple who has around 30 does and 2 bucks was looking for another blue eyed buck to add to their herd. They don't milk and don't even have purebred goats, they just love goats and breed them for pets and brush eating. I'm very happy he went to a good home and also very thankful for the time he was here.<br />
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I've got until late fall/early winter of 2016 before I have to start thinking about finding a buck for Merida, Erika, and Star. It's a relief to not have to worry about Ollie getting out and breeding Tulip, and I'm thankful Star will have this time to recover from her illness. I want her in the best shape possible before she is bred again!<br />
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Usually when the kids get to around 3-4 weeks old, I lock them up together at night and then milk the girls in the morning. Then everybody gets turned back together until evening and the process is repeated. </div>
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I had been worried about Star for a while now. She just seemed off. I checked her eyelids, and spent countless hours watching her. She was eating, pooping, loved going down to browse, but she just seemed off to me. She had no interest in grain whatsoever, and I hadn't seen her chewing her cud much. She was still eating mineral, still eating baking soda, loved it when I brought her a banana or an apple core, but she just didn't seem like herself to me.<br />
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Friday night (5/17) I locked them up and went down that Saturday morning to milk. I always milk Tulip first because she's boss goat. She hops right up on the stand and I can milk her out in less than 3 minutes.<br />
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Then it was Star's turn....and she refused to get on the stand. Flat refused, nope, not going to do it and you can't make me.....</div>
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Ha! Well I did make her, but it wasn't easy for either of us. Once I got her on the stand, she stood quietly like she always has, and I began to milk her, but she wouldn't let down.</div>
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You may not know this, but a goat has to "let down" their milk or you just aren't going to get any! Tulip usually takes about 60-80 squirts before she lets down really well, and you can feel it immediately when she does, her teats just fill up full and then you can milk her out whippety quick!</div>
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Star wouldn't let down. She had been locked apart from her kids all night, and was full as could be and I got less than 1/2 cup of milk from her. I tried again Sunday morning, and the same thing, I had to wrassle her up on the stand and she wouldn't let down, and she wouldn't eat her grain.</div>
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She's never not been interested in grain, and she's never, ever given me trouble about getting on the milk stand. This was all new behavior for her which is why I was so concerned.</div>
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I started her on probiotics and kept watching her, checking her eyelids and general condition.<br />
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Wednesday I took Erika and Bear back to the vet as they had a bit of horn growth and I wanted to get them redone. As I went down to the pasture to collect the kids, Star was kind enough to poop so I scooped it up in a dixie cup, put it in a sandwich baggie and took it with me to have the vet do a fecal.<br />
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BARBER POLE, BARBER POLE, BARBER POLE!<br />
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Actually he said it by the real name of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemonchus_contortus" target="_blank"> </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: left;"><b><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemonchus_contortus" target="_blank">Haemonchus contortus</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></b></span>and I didn't even know what it was until I got home and looked it up. I did know what Barber Pole was though!<br />
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Yuck, and scary so I was faced with a now what? I've never dealt with it before but I got on the internet machine and started doing tons of research, which can make you feel better or just scare you even more. The vet recommended I deworm everybody, but I chose to check eyelids and evaluate condition before doing that. I don't want to treat an issue that isn't there. Tulip is as healthy as an ox as are the kids. <br />
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I didn't think Star was at deaths door or anything, but from what I read, they can go downhill quickly with this. The vet gave me Panacur for her, and I gave her that and also gave her Morantel Tartrate. Yes I combo wormed her. I didn't want to mess around with this. I didn't want to lose my Star! I also started her on vitamin B shots as well as continuing the probiotics.<br />
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By Thursday evening, she had perked up a little bit, and when The Youngun went out to bend trees over for the kidlets, Star was more than ready to eat some leaves.....which I was excited about, until a couple hours later when she bloated!! <br />
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Yup, I went to check on her and she was laying in the barn, moaning like she was in labor again, and her tummy was as tight as a tick. Now bloat is something that can kill a goat quickly as well, so I was afraid I was going to lose her from that. I grabbed her around her front end and sat her up on her hindquarters to get her to "burp" and then massaged her rumen. I went and did that several times throughout the evening, and her stomach began to loosen up. I know there are several remedies for bloat, including drenching with a weak dish-soap solution, but I was so afraid to cause her any more distress that I finally went to bed hoping and praying for the best.<br />
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I really thought she might be gone when I went out Friday morning to do chores, but she was laying in there cuddled up with Bear, (who was feeling a little under the weather due to being a wether, he he, see what I did there), and she got up with a little bit of prodding from me. <br />
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By Saturday morning when I went out to milk Tulip, Star was waiting at the gate to her barn, looking at me with bright and shining eyes, ready to be let out! She was wagging her tail as she browsed, and her poop is finally totally normal and in a nice quantity. She is painfully thin to my eyes, and I'm thankful she was in such good flesh to begin with, or I can't imagine how thin she'd be.<br />
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I continued giving her probiotics daily, and she got the vitamin B shot every for about 5 days, when she felt good enough that I couldn't shoot her by myself, which I thought was an excellent sign. She is also talking more again and just generally looks like her old self, except for the weight loss, however she still isn't interested in grain. The only grain she will eat is sunflower seeds or dry beet pulp. She wants nothing to do with anything else, including alfalfa pellets, although that seems to be changing as the days go on.<br />
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I've ordered some copper bolus and will give her that, as my research has shown me that <a href="http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/sp/mg/documents/copper_wire.pdf" target="_blank"><b><i>copper oxide wire particles </i></b></a>are helpful and effective in controlling barber pole worm.<br />
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This is the first time I've had to deal with a sick goat, other than the registered <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-goats-on-paradebramble-patch.html" target="_blank">Kinder buck Luke </a> </i>getting coccidiosis and being wormy at the same time, and I don't like it much! It's pretty scary, and not fun, but such is all part of owning livestock. They do get sick and sometimes they die and it's all just part of the circle of life. I'm thankful that I have the opportunities to spend a lot of time with my girls and that way I can tell when something isn't right with them. Star never got bottle jaw, never got overly pale membranes (a little pale, but not drastic) never really had any symptoms other than being "off" and having a bit of a rough hair coat which could have been from the time of year. I just knew she didn't feel good and I'm glad shes feeling better!<br />
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I'm very thankful she seems to be on the road to recovery at this time!<br />
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Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-52923570740246694052015-04-29T20:16:00.002-05:002015-04-29T20:16:34.509-05:00Cream Line Baby!<div style="text-align: center;">
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This is milk from Tulip....<br />
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Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-73563713646973808742015-04-25T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-25T06:00:01.382-05:00Deep Thoughts......A Crisis of Religion, but Not of Faith.........<div style="text-align: center;">
If you are a long time reader of my blog, you may remember that for most of our marriage we weren't regular church attendees. God has always been our constant, and the driving force in our lives, but we didn't attend organized religious services.</div>
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There are a whole lot of reasons why we didn't attend regularly, and I won't get into those here, but we never lacked for a close relationship with God, which to my mind is what matters more than anything.</div>
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Shortly after we moved down here to KY, <a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2011/11/kentucky-bound-and-tragedy-strikes.html" target="_blank"><b><i>The Man's sister lost her husband</i></b></a> after a long illness, and his funeral was preached by a hell fire and brimstone preacher who inspired us to begin attending church. It was wonderful! Uplifting and inspiring and most Sundays a wonderful jolt to the spirit.</div>
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We attended every Sunday until we moved to Montana, and then as soon as we came back we went right back. I think we only missed two Sundays in over 2 years.....</div>
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The last few months however, we began to notice some things that made us increasingly uncomfortable. Certain things that weren't exactly Biblically correct. Things that just began to bother us more and more. Also, after that amount of time attending every Sunday, we began to notice that the sermon was pretty much exactly the same every Sunday. The same message, and sometimes not a Biblically correct message. This really began to wear on us. </div>
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We prayed and prayed and we continued to attend, but things just kept getting worse and worse and we felt it was time to leave.</div>
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That was about 2 months ago I suppose, and we've tried a couple of different churches since. We've also missed a few Sundays, not attending anywhere. We are still praying for God's direction. We have not found a church home. We still talk in depth about God as a family every day. God isn't just on Sunday morning to us. God is every day, every moment, every second. His love and His presence permeates every aspect of our lives as it always has.</div>
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Church is important, but it absolutely doesn't substitute for that close personal relationship with God. You can't have a true relationship with Him if you are eating with a spoon everything the preacher is saying on Sunday morning and never learning to feed yourself. If you don't study the Bible and have deep conversations with others outside of the church, you won't know, or notice if and when your preacher strays from the Word.</div>
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I'm so thankful to live in a country where you can own a Bible and can read and study God's word at any time you want. I have a Bible in the car, at my desk at work, on the bench beside where I sit at the table, and in the bathroom. God's word is never far away from me and I can read it any time I want. I can also pray and talk to God at any time. This is the beautiful thing about a relationship with God. He is never out of reach!</div>
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So we are in search of a church. And we sort of feel as if we are in a bit of a crisis of religion.<br />
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Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-53806667145177961852015-04-23T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-23T06:00:05.974-05:00Let's Go Find the Goats!<div style="text-align: center;">
Would you like to come with me to visit the goats?</div>
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First we have to find them.....</div>
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Oh there they are, browsing in the thick brush.....</div>
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Here is Tulip, but where are Star and all the babies??</div>
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Ahh, here they are! The babies are almost always with Star....</div>
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Here is our beautiful girl Erika. She is Tulip's doeling, and thanks to the kindness of Jennifer, she's going to be staying here with us, along with Merida. As Jen pointed out, this will leave me with Tulip's first daughter Star, and her last daughter Erika....She's a funny, sweet doeling with a lot of her Mama's personality traits. She doesn't like to be held, but she loves to be scratched and rubbed and will stand next to you forever if you'll just keep scratching and stroking her!</div>
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And here's my lovely girl Merida, she just gets sweeter every day....</div>
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She's got such a funny, sweet personality and her favorite place is still in my lap...</div>
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Here is little Miss Fancy Pants, stretching up to eat the dead leaves, because who wants to eat fresh green food when you can eat the dried stuff....</div>
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And here is Bear showing Mama how rough and tough he is by beating up this tree...</div>
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And now everybody is browsing on the tender young growth. So happy and carefree is the life of a goat!</div>
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Erika and Merida say thanks for stopping by!!</div>
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<br />Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-70321362592881980682015-04-21T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-21T06:00:01.729-05:00Chocolate Mint Soap......Soap-fully It'll Be Good.............<br />
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Sunday was rainy and nasty, so while The Man left to go mushroom hunting over at our aunt and uncle's farm, I stayed home to mill some soap and do some other things.<br />
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I had the bright idea to make some chocolate mint soap so flying by the seat of my pants....away I went!</div>
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First I went out my front door to my flower bed and picked some chocolate mint. </div>
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After the mint and milk had cooked together till the mint was pretty wilty and the milk was a nice pale green and smelled really good....</div>
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I'm calling it Mint Brownie Batter</div>
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I'm calling it Brown Sugar Cinnamon Mint....</div>
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Because I'm super creative like that....</div>
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And this is all the soap I've milled so far this year, from the basic soap I made a while ago...</div>
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It's all pretty mixed up, but straight across from left to right is Mint Brownie Batter, Brown Sugar Cinnamon Mint, Wheat Germ and Honey, and then that pretty golden colored bar is Lemongrass Cornmeal....</div>
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I've been hunting morels since I was a little girl with my dad, and The Man has been doing the same with his step-dad. I learned my love of the woods from Dad, and remember following him over logs, through briars, and up and down hills from when I was an itty bitty. </div>
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Dad doesn't particularly like to eat morels, but Mom loves them so when I was a kid we went every year. At first he would find them and point them out to me and let me pick them. Then he began to force me to get better at it, and he would say STOP!! Do you see them? Look around, and I'd look around until I saw the mushroom and then I'd bend down and pick it.</div>
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Then when The Man and I got married, we started hunting together.</div>
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People will tell you all kinds of "stuff" about finding mushrooms.<br />
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"Stuff" like....morels grow around dead trees, mostly elm.....or they like moist ground.....or they like dry ground.....or they are up when the apple trees are blooming, or when the apples trees are done or blah blah blah.<br />
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Let me fill you in on some life changing intel on hunting mushrooms...........<br />
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THEY GROW WHERE THEY GROW<br />
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Ha, but seriously......they really do grow where they grow. <br />
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You may have the greatest best most productive 'shroom patch ever, and hunt there for 3 or 4 years straight and then go back one spring and not find a thing.<br />
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The bottom line when hunting mushrooms is that the weather conditions have to be right at the right time, and you have to cover some ground. You have to walk, and walk, and walk some more! In a good year like this one, you'll find them everywhere and won't hardly be able to walk without stepping on them. In years like this, The Man hunts every second he can. Rain or shine, he's out hunting mushrooms. I'm not that hardy, and don't like to hunt in the rain!<br />
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Now as for how do you know what mushrooms you can eat and live to see another day??<br />
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I don't know about anything but Morels. I wish I did, but I don't.<br />
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As far as I know there is no other mushroom that looks like a morel. They are very distinctive looking. <br />
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Down here folks call them "dry land fish". I guess maybe because they sort of look as if they have gills? I really have no clue why. <b><i> <a href="http://thegreatmorel.com/falsemorel.html" target="_blank">This site will show you pictures of what they call "false morels" </a></i></b>but to me they don't look anything like a morel. A real morel is hollow inside and when you slice it in half, it's hollow.<br />
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I'm sure this post wasn't helpful in the least, but if you'd like to go out hunting morels here is what we always take with us...<br />
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Our 'shroomin' sticks....The Man carved these for us out of cedar limbs....they are about 5 1/2 feet long or so.....<br />
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7 Dust. This works better in our minds for keeping ticks off than Off ever could, and it doesn't leave a terrible taste in your mouth.<br />
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A sack. This can be an empty bread sack, a plastic bag, a basket, bucket, anything you can tote your mushrooms in. In the park it is the law that you have to use a mesh bag, so we use empty onion sacks.<br />
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A lunch. Trust me, you are going to be having such a great and peaceful day enjoying the woods that you aren't going to want to have to go home and eat!<br />
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A camera. Optional but nice to have so you can take pictures of anything interesting you may see.<br />
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Now after you've found your nice haul of mushrooms....<br />
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We cut them in half length-wise.....<br />
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And put them in a bowl, usually a butter bowl, or an ice cream bucket depending on how many we've got.......<br />
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Then cover them with water, and sort of gently rinse them because they will be full of little bugs.....<br />
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Now add a bit of salt, and put them in the fridge over night.<br />
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This weekend The Man went 'shrooming every day, and by this evening, we had 3 ice cream buckets of sliced morel mushrooms, which translated into 9 bags of mushrooms in the freezer, plus a nice mess for supper.</div>
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He was hunting over on our aunt and uncle's 100 acre farm, and since it was rainy and nasty, I stayed home to do things around here, so I wasn't a part of this mushroom haul. The weather is supposed to stay good for mushrooms though, so we'll be headed out next weekend to hopefully find some more!</div>
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<br />Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-48948972841483731482015-04-09T12:06:00.000-05:002015-04-09T12:06:34.477-05:00General Updates... Elvy and Eden..<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't really have one specific thing to include on here since we missed the four week weigh in for Tauriel's litter :( I need to make a reminder for the fridge.... I swear I would forget my own name if people didn't call me by it all the time! ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So anyways, on to an overall general update. I went ahead and moved Tauriel and her babies out here yesterday...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She was so excited for hay this morning when I brought it over to her. So I stuffed some in the middle of her cage and stood back and watched. (I usually only give hay once a day, mostly in the mornings, since they usually have hay left at night anyways, unless I have bred does who are close...) And when I gave her hay, after only a few seconds of watching, this is what I saw....</span></div>
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And remember how I told you I don't let her do it?</div>
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On Sunday, I was in my customary place sitting on the overturned feed pan with my Merida in my lap.....so far so good!</div>
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I'm scratching Tulip and as The Man was out there with us, I asked him to take a picture of the three of us....</div>
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Oh the fun we are having!</div>
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As Merida extends her sweet little nose in friendship, Tulip flips her head at her, whereupon I increase the scratching to let Tulip know I still love her too.....when as quick as a snake, I see Tulip strike and hear Merida squeal!</div>
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I don't like patching jeans. I don't mind patching the butt, and the crotch isn't too bad, but I can't stand patching the legs/knees. See, The Man, while being a heavily muscled man up top, has itty bitty bird legs. He's about 5'5" on a good day and weighs 190 lbs, almost all of which is packed in his shoulders, arms, and neck. He's got the skinniest legs I've ever seen....chicken legs really. He can wear skinny jeans and they don't even look skinny on him, just normal! </div>
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I was sitting at the kitchen table, grumbling, sighing and pretty much just pitching a baby fit because I don't like patching jeans, and feeling immensely guilty about it because it's Easter and Jesus didn't pitch a fit about DYING ON A CROSS for me, and here I am crying about not wanting to patch jeans......</div>
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The first thing you do is cut a patch. I use the lower legs of jeans that are beyond hope...and the rest of the pant goes to my Mama for making her embroidered denim quilts...</div>
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I get my jeans at Goodwill for 3 bucks. You may be asking yourself, why in the WORLD do you patch them then? Simple answer is because I like this pair and there is nothing wrong with the rest of the jean, just this huge rip in the butt. My goats could care less if they are patched, so they are great jeans for around here and fishing and such.....</div>
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So I don't usually begin milking until the kids are about 3 weeks old. At that point, I lock them up separate from their dams in the evening, then milk Mamas in the morning and turn the kids back in with them. They nurse all day long, so I don't have to milk in the evening, then I repeat the process. </div>
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However, this year Tulip had a single. The is the first time she's ever done that. I bought her as a bred 18 month old doe and she freshened for the first time at our place in IL, with twins. Star was the doeling of that set of twins, and she had a brother we named Jesse that was sold to a little 4 year old girl for her first 4-H goat.</div>
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And below I'm holding Jesse with Star standing in front...</div>
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Then her next kidding she had triplet bucklings....</div>
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The buckling, Lightning, and one of the doelings Carmen....</div>
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And then she had triplets again, this time two doelings and a buckling again, I think. This was the beginning of things getting crazy with The Man <a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2011/11/hello-dear-friends.html" target="_blank"><i><b>losing his job and us making the move to KY</b></i></a>, so I don't remember...but I do know it was three babies....and I don't even have any pictures of them!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello there! Today I am here to tell you why bunnies, are the bomb. Let's get started with my reasons...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep, you "heard" me right, noise. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not like one of those old ladies who sits in her rocking chair knitting and wants complete quiet all day every day with not a creature stirring, not even a mouse... I mean, I own two parakeets for goodness sake! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am the type of woman who assumes that noise, is a distress signal. I guess God just programmed my brain and instincts to think "pain, fear, or another ailment" when I hear a loud noise emanating from an animal. And that's all well and good if the animal is in distress, however that isn't always the case! For example, these creatures...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make noise, ALL THE TIME! and it is rarely a sign of distress. However, when I hear it, my brain instantly thinks... "OH NO!! AN ANIMAL MUST BE HURT! I MUST SAVE IT!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In my opinion, bunny droppings are one of the best kinds of droppings... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bunny droppings are small, compact little balls that don't stick badly to your shoes, don't have to be dry to be put on plants, and don't smell so horrible that you can't even function... Here is a visual for those of you who would like one...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Anywho, bunny droppings are what is known as "cold manure" meaning it doesn't burn plants. You could catch droppings straight out of the rabbit and go and dump it on your plant, and it wouldn't hurt it. Cow, horse, and other manures will burn plants if you do that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And bunny noses are just so adorable. They twitch and sniff and wiggle and wobble, and they fill your heart with the kind of joy that you just can't get out of other things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As several people have commented... Rabbit colors are such fun! There are so many different colors, and you really never know what is going to pop up! "It's like a box of chocolates, you never really know what you're gonna get!" ;) In just the several months we've had rabbits (this time) we have encountered almost ten different colors! You can mix fur types, fur lengths, fur feel, color, rings, tones, the list goes on people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As I'm sure you know if you've done much reading on this Blog, The Goodwife (mom) anxiously awaited baby goats for FIVE LOOONNG MONTHS. And every day she would pat mother's tum and talk to the babies inside and tell them she couldn't wait to meet them. The moral of the story is that five months is far too long for this young lady to wait! Need I remind you that I bred these two....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the fourteenth of March, and we are going to have babies in twelve days?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In order to own rabbits, you don't have to have all of this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And voila! Fresh water for your rabbit! Much easier for young women and/or people with disabilities... Or people who are allergic to work or light to moderate lifting... ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">To make more bunnies, all you do is pick up your doe and put her in the cage with your buck once in the morning and then once at night. Tada, you've just made baby bunnies. No hauling a big animal, no worries that your bucks will get out and breed your does you don't want bred, no fear to get in the middle of two large animals, no fuss, no muss.</span></div>
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So Sunday after church I decided to mill some of my basic soap down into a bit more of a luxurious product.</div>
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So some folks are of the mind that in order to have friendly adult goats, you must raise them on the bottle when they are babies. <br />
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Some folks bottle feed for other reasons, such as CAE prevention, or because they want/need all the milk the doe can produce, or because they just really like bottle feeding and that's fine. No worries on my part for how they like to do things.<br />
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This is Jen's baby sucking/chewing on my coat while laying in my lap. I'm not holding here there, she's just chilling out enjoying spending some time with me. </div>
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I don't know what Jennifer will call her, but we call her Fancy Pants because she's got such a fancy face....</div>
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I know you can't tell by my face, but I just LOVE MY GOATS!!</div>
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The way to get friendly kids, is the same way you get healthy, well adjusted human kids........</div>
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As you can see in this picture, Merida is completely sacked out in my lap with Fancy laying on top of her resting as well. That's Tulip's little girl trying her hand at climbing on the feed pan...</div>
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The more time you spend sitting out there being a jungle gym for your babies, holding them while they sleep and just being with them, the friendlier they will be!</div>
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Tulip is a helicopter parent and doesn't like to let her little girl join in the fun, but the older she gets the more she defies Mama. However, during this video, she was napping in the hay rack and because she spent most of the afternoon snoozing away, I don't have any good pictures of her. </div>
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And here is the buckling, who we've decided to call The Bear King, or Bear for short...</div>
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And my sweet Merida chewing on Mama Star's beard...</div>
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As you can see, everybody is doing just great, and growing to beat the band! They are all four headed to the vet this week to get disbudded. </div>
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If you remember, <a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2011/03/few-more-goat-thoughtsand-couple.html" target="_blank"><b><i>that is the one goat keeping chore I just cannot do</i></b></a>!</div>
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<br />Mama Messhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541998872594946053noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-995084920131564374.post-6130001828162186382015-03-30T06:00:00.000-05:002015-03-30T06:00:01.054-05:0019 Years...........<div style="text-align: center;">
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19 years ago today I married my best friend.....</div>
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We stood before God and our families and joined our lives together into one flesh.....</div>
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It's a commitment we take very seriously and one we feel shouldn't be entered into lightly. I do not think it is a random act that marriage is first mentioned in the book of Genesis chapter 2 verse 24.</div>
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We strive for a Biblical marriage and pray for The Youngun to have one someday as well.</div>
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I'm so thankful God brought us together and it's been a joy to grow older with this man!</div>
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I'm thankful for every day God has given us, and every day He will grant us in the future, and I'm thankful beyond words to know that when we draw our last breath here in this fleeting life, we'll be together again in Heaven.</div>
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So thankful that though we don't get to choose how our lives go here on earth, we do get to choose who we go through them with. I'm thankful The Man chose me, and more thankful that we both chose Him....</div>
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If you'd like to<a href="http://goodwifefarm.blogspot.com/2010/03/14-years.html" target="_blank"> <b><i>read our story, you can do so here.</i></b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now we have two pregnant does here. Eden and Elvy are both due on the 13th of April. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Beautiful Spartan and his silvering...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We already know what we are going to get from Spartan and Elvy, but you never know what could pop up from Spartan, since we aren't sure he is full! Be sure to comment and guess what you think we'll get from Pres and Eden! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Speaking of Spartan, our beautiful boy has made such progress. When he came to us at almost seven months, he was skittish and unsure, and he wasn't filled out at all. Not exactly thin, but not nearly as full bodied as I would have liked him. He's always been smaller than all of the other rabbits, except for Presley... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But Bad Boy Spartan has made a comeback, and full feed and love has made a huge difference!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And so, signing off is our leather studded Bad Boy Spartan and his amazing progress!</span></div>
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Don't worry, she's still "with" us, but this was her last kidding (unless our Maker has other plans) and so I guess she wanted to go out with a bang! </div>
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And I hated to have to get them because my favorite kind of boots were no longer made in Australia, but Indonesia?</div>
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And I was going to have to make a trip to the most wonderful boot store to try and find some new ones?</div>
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And after about an hour of walking around in different boots, I found these.....<br />
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MADE IN THE USA......<br />
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That's right! A good pair of comfortable, stylish, USA made boots! I got them on sale because they were discontinuing this color, but I would have gladly paid the full price for American made, and will probably go back soon to get me another pair for weekend work.<br />
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Until next time, I hope your feet are feelin' fine!<br />
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