Just a bunch of random stuff this time.
In a past post I mentioned that my daughters cat had survived the birthday party invasion. We took her back to the Vet. the following Wednesday and found that she was NOT getting better and there was nothing we could do to prolong her life. She was starting to show signs of kidney failure and any measures we might have taken would not save her, only prolong her suffering. I will say that although she was my daughters cat, we took care of her for many years while Jenni was off pursuing her career and dreams. So we became just as attached. It never gets any easier to lose a loved pet. I hope it never does. Lavender, we will miss you!
With the goats getting closer to having kids, I finally got a couple of my to-do list items completed. Alex from down the road wants to do a goat project for 4H and I am letting her use one of Rosie’s babies when they are born. Part of the project is learning to take care of the animal you are raising and so with that in mind, she came down last week and helped me to clean out the goat shelter. Alex is a hard worker and somehow she talked her mom into helping and when we could not finish it in one day, she talked her dad into bringing their 4 wheeler with a snow blade on it to “just push it out of the shelter”. Well, it worked very well, even if it did take more than 1 (or 10 or 20) attempts. I have fed those (goat) girls about 2 tons of hay and a couple hundred pounds of grain over the fall and winter and they turned it into about a ton of compost and hopefully some goat kids.
Speaking of, I added a link to my official to-do list on the front page it should be under the weather link in the right side menu. I only did that because I got those 2 items done. The list is still not complete. It may never be. Such is life.
While we were cleaning the shelter I received a call from Mark and Nancy down the road. One reason we could not finish cleaning in one day. One of their goats was delivering kids and they were having a problem and would I come down to see if I could help? So Alex and Stacy and I went down. Alex really wanted to see newborn goats. and we spent some time there looking at the problem. The mamma goat had a prolapse, fortunately not a uterine prolapse, but I had never seen this type of thing before and Mark was not sure if there was a third baby inside and maybe this was blocking the birth. I finally called my Vet. and she walked us through the checks over the phone. We determined that there weren’t any more babies inside and the Vet. told us that if the prolapse did not grow any larger the mamma goat would be fine.
While we were looking at the mamma goat, Mark handed one of the newborn kids to Alex to hold. I think she was on cloud nine at that point. When Nancy came out to see how things were going she just looked at Alex and asked “So, what are their names?”. I don’t think Alex hesitated for even one second. I don’t remember what names she gave them, but I am quite sure that when Rosie has her kids, they will have names waiting for them. I stopped by their place yesterday to see how the mom and kids are doing and learned that some lady from Malad had come by and bought all three. The mom had been recovering well though and all three went to another farm to live.
I have been trying to tweet the daily status of my goats, but it seems pointless to keep saying “no kids yet”. So I will most likely just announce on Facebook and Google+ when it actually happens. Y’all will be the first to know, right after I call/text Alex. I will update the goats page and post pictures here as well.