Misty Chores: Audio log
Misty emailed me this recording this evening. I hope everyone enjoys it, I did.
Misty: Chore Log
I’m going to use this post to log info about the chores for the next two weeks.
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Episode #4
Here is episode 4, our first “double ender.” (That sounds so bad!)
Andrew is in Edmonton, Misty is minding the homefront in Indiana.
We talk about Gallery, our new webserver, a broken well pump, goat kids, city vs. country, an auto accident.
It should be transparent to everyone, but the mp3 files are now being hosted on libsyn, but nothing else. I tried using ourmedia but my files vanished. If anyone has any problems please let us know.
Hope you enjoy it!
Kids!
Cream went into labor today while I was at the grocery store, somewhere between 11 and noon. I got back around a quarter after noon, and 3 kids had been born! While I dried them, sexed them, weighed them, and swabbed their belly buttons with iodine, she had a fourth!
Andrew tells me it’s really unusual for a dairy goat to have quadruplets, but Cream has done it for the second year in a row!
Here are the weights, and then the pictures.
Doe: 6 lb 12 oz
Buck: 8 lb 8 oz
Buck: 6 lb 10 oz
Buck: 10 lb 10 oz(!)
I weighed that second buck again, and got the same weight. He’s a little chunk!
They have all taken at least some colostrum. Three of them really latched on and got quite a bit, but one of them hasn’t quite figured it out yet, and only could manage a couple sips. The bottle was cooling down, so I will feed them some more during the evening chores.
They are under a heat lamp within sight of Cream, and she is staring at them and talking to them. She has not passed the afterbirth yet, but I went ahead and milked her. I got 1 lb 8 oz of colostrum in the first milking.
Edit to add: Cream has passed the afterbirth. I’ve fed the kids again, and they almost finished the entire bottle! The 10lb buck was the last one born and seems a little slower to catch on than the others. They have already been sucking my fingers like crazy, but he’s not too interested yet. He got a few more swallows and that’s it.
For more pics go to the gallery.
Week 1 of Farming It Alone
This hasn’t been a bad week. No goat kids or lambs yet, so it hasn’t been a ton of work. The weather was mild at the beginning of the week, but it’s gotten colder.
