Ok, so about 5 years ago I bought 10 acres just north of McKinney and decided that a few goats would clean up the brush nicely. Of course I would put these 24/7 weed eaters to work to also gain ag exempt. So in order to do this I would need a Billy to run with my does. So last July I jumped in to goat ownership! Oh what fun and man did they do some cleaning!
Fast forward to last Friday.........remember the snow day? Well at my house we refer to that as the begging of a 6 day nightmare!!! At around 3:30 while I was out trying to locate my kids a redneck sled (inner tube for you city folk) I received a call from my lovely wife........"we have a new baby goat!!!" Oh crap, I said, as I quickly turned my truck around and began my journey home. Sure enough, I got home to a nice little baby boy goat.
Day two.....Saturday, as I am trying to get over the whole "how we going to keep this thing alive with all these cold temps", I get ANOTHER call "uh #4 just had twins!" same response, different day, oh crap an head home stopping by tractor supply to pick up more heat lamps for my makeshift barn. So a quick recap.....we got (3) as of Saturday
Day three...Sunday and off to church, swing by tractor supply for trip #3 in 3 days, and head on home. Get home and slide on outside to the barn to check on the babies and "Oh crap!" more goats! So we quickly started working with one when I realized one of the other goats was no where to be found. So I told my wife to go looking for the missing goat when she yelled "Oh crap! We got two more over here!" So another recap......we now have (6) as of Sunday.
Day four.....Monday and off to work. All at peace and back to normal....HA! My wife spent the entire day holding one of the babies in her arms trying to bottle feed it. It was cold, semi-unconscience, and in desperate need of it's mama's milk. By the way, I would be a millionaire if I would have been home during the day, imagine this, my 5'9" wife and our 5'1" 100# neighbor girl tied the mama to a tree and milked it so she would have something to feed the malnourished baby. Don't forget the temps. The baby finally came around that evening.
Day five.....Tuesday and back to work. Called friend to come build another loafing shed to try and get my baby goats warm. As he was building the shed around 10, I receive yet ANOTHER call.... "MORE GOATS!" so I head home and get here. To a total of (8) baby goats, a couple are a little weak, but doing ok.
So here we are day six and we have subzero arctic temps and I have (6) heat lamps, (2) 4x8 pieces of plywood, (2) tarps, (1) shower curtain, and countless bags of pine shavings and (8) baby goats and two tired people that are just waiting fir the last pregnant mama goat to have her twins (guessing twins because she's freggin huge!)
Anyways, I had to share because this is a first for us and it has been total chaos for the past six days!
Be on the look out for a classified ad for GOATS!
Fast forward to last Friday.........remember the snow day? Well at my house we refer to that as the begging of a 6 day nightmare!!! At around 3:30 while I was out trying to locate my kids a redneck sled (inner tube for you city folk) I received a call from my lovely wife........"we have a new baby goat!!!" Oh crap, I said, as I quickly turned my truck around and began my journey home. Sure enough, I got home to a nice little baby boy goat.
Day two.....Saturday, as I am trying to get over the whole "how we going to keep this thing alive with all these cold temps", I get ANOTHER call "uh #4 just had twins!" same response, different day, oh crap an head home stopping by tractor supply to pick up more heat lamps for my makeshift barn. So a quick recap.....we got (3) as of Saturday
Day three...Sunday and off to church, swing by tractor supply for trip #3 in 3 days, and head on home. Get home and slide on outside to the barn to check on the babies and "Oh crap!" more goats! So we quickly started working with one when I realized one of the other goats was no where to be found. So I told my wife to go looking for the missing goat when she yelled "Oh crap! We got two more over here!" So another recap......we now have (6) as of Sunday.
Day four.....Monday and off to work. All at peace and back to normal....HA! My wife spent the entire day holding one of the babies in her arms trying to bottle feed it. It was cold, semi-unconscience, and in desperate need of it's mama's milk. By the way, I would be a millionaire if I would have been home during the day, imagine this, my 5'9" wife and our 5'1" 100# neighbor girl tied the mama to a tree and milked it so she would have something to feed the malnourished baby. Don't forget the temps. The baby finally came around that evening.
Day five.....Tuesday and back to work. Called friend to come build another loafing shed to try and get my baby goats warm. As he was building the shed around 10, I receive yet ANOTHER call.... "MORE GOATS!" so I head home and get here. To a total of (8) baby goats, a couple are a little weak, but doing ok.
So here we are day six and we have subzero arctic temps and I have (6) heat lamps, (2) 4x8 pieces of plywood, (2) tarps, (1) shower curtain, and countless bags of pine shavings and (8) baby goats and two tired people that are just waiting fir the last pregnant mama goat to have her twins (guessing twins because she's freggin huge!)
Anyways, I had to share because this is a first for us and it has been total chaos for the past six days!
Be on the look out for a classified ad for GOATS!
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