Its that time again.

Lol, well, I wish you could induce them or something! You started this thread when I first got sick. Now I'm still sick. They better kid before I can't use the "I'm sick" excuse to get on HT, LOL.

My one goat, Hazel, kidded on day 154 her first time and 156 her second time. So it's usually close together but not always the same.

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Are you hanging in there Miranda? I need to have a talk with your girls because they are taking this Doe Code thing WAAAAAAAAY to far in my opinion.

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I agree with you. I'm hangin.... Decided to give up on the watchful eye tonight. Everyone is locked up nice and tight and I'm staying in tonight.

Baby monitor is plugged in, heat lamps are on, and I'm praying they wait and kid during the sunshine and warmth of the day instead of middle of the night freezing ice cold temps.


These girls are taking me on a long ride...and to top it off I have lost two chicks, two hens, and a duck to wild life this month. Whatever it is, is squeezing through the fences and trying to drag the birds out through the woven wire. It can't get them through so it chews off the head and breast and leaves the body.


I think I need a get away from the farm/winter vacation.

You are dealing with a skunk. It will keep coming back. You need to get rid of the skunk some how.

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I'm so done here.

A skunk?? I didn't know skunks are chickens.
someone else told me weasels and minks do the same thing to chickens, will eat the head. And someone else told me a fox...whatever it is, it has to die!

Update on the girls:

I heard mama talk on the monitor this morning, followed by little britches yelping at the the top of her lungs!! I don't take it as much when she's yelling, because,...well Daisy has always been a yeller. I think that's what bothers me the most about her oops pregnancy is that she's such a mamas girl. A baby!!
A baby having a baby....
Anyways, decided to hurry up and put on my six pairs and fleece and thermal pants and run out. Checked the first stall.

Trouble is casually rubbing her alfalfa cubes against the wall. So I open the stall, let her out.
Next stall, daisy and cadence....
Daisy is screaming like a banshee, so I check...no goo, no babies hooves sticking out. Open the stall, she comes out but cadence stays back. She has more globs of mucous coming out.
Ligs are still there, but much softer.
Today is day 149. (for somebody)

Will keep an eye on her as she is not wanting to go to far. But who am I kidding, she won't go, shell hold out another week

Her stomach is rumbling really loud though. Never heard such a thing.

It would be much better if you can better secure the pens as opposed to fighting a losing battle with predators. Pretty much everything is a predator of chickens and ducks!

I thought the pens were secure. Completely enclosed with a woven wire fence, the square holes are about two inches wide, by three inches long. Whatever is getting in, is able to squeeze through the holes which is why I thought its a Weasle.
Either way, I've moved the hens to the barn with the chicks, that way at least its all locked up at night and they can sit in the rafters until I figure this out

Wouldn't it be my luck for these girls to go at the same time. Trouble had a puffy vulva, and cadence is doing the squat thing where she only dribbles. Or doesn't pee at all. Either way both girls are acting funny

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We shall see

She has a nasty back end, goop, dirt, and poo every where.....but won't let me touch her to clean her

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oo the wee devils. It would figure they would be in cohoots with each other. Hang in there Miranda. You should come to florida with me at the beginning of April. All momma's need a vaca!

I would love to lol. I bet its warm down there!!!


Its a whopping 32° here this morning. All four of my human children are at each others throats, the laundry is piled up, house desperately needs to be cleaned, I'm looking for a few Boer/kilo goats on CL. And doing yard work, and watching goats do nothing...ugh. vacation is so needed

Oh 32 can I have your temps? Here it was -6 when I woke up. I sobbed!

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I'm so done here.

BECAUSE I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND.........

I havent washed my hair in three days.

My clothes are covered in goat hair from all the shedding and brushing and rubbing on me.....

The house is a wreck!!!. The kids are almost out of clean clothes.

The barn is clean . (See above statement)

I found a goat hair in my food....more than once (again, see two statements above)

I was cleaning out the goat medicine cabinet and touched something caustic. I then touched my face. So I have some kind of chemical burn on the corner of my mouth. (looks like herpes) lol...And it still burns. (Yes i washed it...But not my hair)

I have 200 pictures of goat hoohah, vulva juices, and teets on my phone...And only ten pics of my human kids.

Theres goat poop on the bottom of my Bogs, which i then tracked in the house. Too lazy to clean the boots, so i decided to just take them off on the porch. (However I did clean up the smooshed pellets on the floor, just not the rest of the house)

The kids are now trained to look for amber hoohah goo, and are attentively watching for it during their play time.

Im so used to the baby monitor being on all night next to my head, that the crowing rooster no longer wakes me up, but a goat sneeze has me running for the door.

People at church make fun of me for always thinking the goat "could be" in labor.

My friends dont come over anymore, because im always watching, cleaning, feeding, brushing, or talking about goats.

Ive read more, seen more, and looked at more goat horror stories, and "possible signs" of trouble in the last month, and no matter how much they make me worry, I cant stop reading them.

I abandoned facebook, and text messaging, and spend all available hours on HT. (those hours I should be cleaning, and showering.)

And I have now had coffee in the barn, while holding steady conversations with my does, for nearly 3 weeks.

But, Boy am I glad someone on here feels my pain

I feel ur pain I also cracked up at this post. Thanks One moment less to wait at any rate....

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This is the post of the year! I need to print this and hang it on my wall!

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I'm so done here.

So I don't have goats, but as a mom of a little boy, a cat and a husband, I almost peed my pants. Yep- we all understand that feeling. In some way or another- we all do.

I'm glad you all like it.

I promise I started to clean my house,.... Rearranged the living room, dusted, threw a couple loads of washed laundry on the couch, and just at that pivotal moment were the house is at its very worst in the cleaning process, my ten yr old daughter starts screaming this blood curdling scream. I run through the house, tripping and jumping over the piles and furniture and finally sling open the door just as she makes it to it. I grab her and of course start telling her to stop yelling, breath, calm down, tell me what's wrong......


Turns out her brother pushed her, she skuffled, tripped over the fort, and fell on her arm. Was screaming of pain. So, I changed out of my dirty, worn, goat hair covered clothes, and packed all 4 kids up for a trip to the hospital.


long story...no broken arm. Sprained growth plates/elbow.
She'll be ok.

But the house work got pushed again oops:thumbdown:

Where's Minelson? I Miss her!!! But we now have MirandaT tho..

Thank you, I think.lol