Yesterday, was a long day :) at least 6 hours. It started out with my dad getting home at 2:20, us leaving the house at 2:40, getting to my first goat client's house, Cheryl, at 3:02. She has two Nubian wether goats, and she said she bought them from Kim Puzio as little babies, that she use to trim. But now, Lloyd and Harry (she says her son named them :) are like, 200 lb goats, almost as much as Prince. Just thank goodness they don't smell and act like Prince, who wants to stick his tongue out at you, and make funny sounds :) How we trim them, is she puts a collar on them, and a lead rope, ties the lead rope, and have a bucket of grain to distract them. And one of them spilled the bucket of grain, so the other one, sticked his head under the fence with his long neck, and was actually getting the grain too. Desperate huh? lol. So then I finished trimming her goats in good time. About 20 minutes. And the clock said 3:28 (okay so we talked about 10 minutes worth at least :)
So then we headed to the second house, Donna's house. She has 2 Angora goats (cute little fuzzy things :) and 2 very skittish Navajo Sheep. Part of it she says, is their breeding. Naturally skiddish they are. And so when we entered the stall she had them in, immediately the 2 sheep start flying. I am not kidding either, they were running really fast, and then would run up the walls and spin and jump, and were in the air, and they were like, 5 feet in the air!! and then they calmed down after 10 minutes. So then we used a chair, and sat the little 40-50 lb goats in my lap one by one. We first did the angora buck, he is about a year old, and he just sat in my lap so calmly, and he was soo cute and fuzzy, that I wouldn't mind him breeding a few female goats I have, so I could have some cute fuzzy little babies :) and then we did the female angora goat, and she as well sat in my lap calmly. But the ram was no way going to let us grab him, or his female. So we decided to wait until next time I come. And she said, she is definitely going to continue to have me clip her animals hooves. And it was now 4:00. Time to get to my next appointment.
The third house, Sarah's house. She told me she had 3 Nigerian Dwarfs. But I saw 4. Omg you guys, she had 3 cute little Nigerian wethers, and OH MY GOSH the CUTEST little 3 lb Nigerian Dwarf doeling ever! just a baby that she recently got! and it was soooo cute. Now the boy's hadn't been trimmed for like, a year, but she has this HUGE HUGE pile of cinder blocks! so it looked like they hadn't been done for a month instead of a year. And then I sat down, and put the little baby in my lap, and looked at those tiny tiny little toes!! and just trimmed the smallest amount of nail off of a goat, that I have ever done. And she just sat there in my lap, and I was in LOVE :)
which reminds me of how Lady of Chaos felt, when she first saw little baby lily with her teeny tiny hooves. And I also think that Lady Of Chaos needs 50 cinder blocks :) 40 for the female goats, 10 for the male goats.
and then, the fourth house I went to, was like a house call. These people, are people that use to go to the same church, but they recently moved to Arlington, with like, at least as much acreage as Chaos. And lots of it is for the goats to munch on, and some that isn't. The reason I went to their house was because one of their little boys wasn't feeling good. He had nibbled some fox glove just out of his enclosure, that was pointing in the fencing, that he could reach. So it gave him a bad stomach ache, his rumen wasn't as noisy as the other goat, he wasn't as alert, he was laying down, he wouldn't eat grain we offered him. But we rubbed his belly a lot, and we got him up, and walked him around, and he ate some grass and brush, and then we walked him around some more, and then he pooped normal, and then was being more alert, moving faster, and then we were over by the garage and he looked for his grain, and we offered some to him, and he ate the grain! So we definitely felt like he was feeling better. And we were there for 2 hours, we got there at six, and left at 8. And we got home at nine, because for 30 minutes, the people in front of us were driving 40 miles an hour, which was ridiculous! and we couldn't even pass them. And anyways, I made $100 dollars yesterday! I totally am GOOD! :) anyways, I am done telling you about my yesterday, and bragging. SO BUH BYE!
6 comments:
I bet that baby was soooo cute! Glad the last little guy is doing better.
I got your email. I'd have to ask WBM about Dandy though. I don't have a QT pen left open and any horse that comes here has to be quarantined for at least 60 days. Even with a recent vet exam. Anyway, I'll have to let you know. Sarah will be here at 2 tomorrow and I'm not sure if you'd want to come over or not, we're flooded from the rain today. And it's supposed to rain tomorrow as well. Up to you though. :)
Dandy is the only horse for miles, and Ardell hasn't brought any new animals for months. And definitely no horses since he has been there. All her animals are all healthy. The only new animals are little baby goats. And she also lives on 40 acres, so it's a definitely a nice place for her animals to live. Though Dandy is a bit fat hehe :)
and there is no sick animals of any type even anywhere close to being exposed to her animals.So.
Oh well. You gotta do, what you gotta do right :).
It's a precaution Kim. One fly can travel miles and bring with it all sorts of things. And on the way to here, a fly could fly in the trailer...
So, it's just a precaution, all the horses do it. I'd hate to have the whole herd get sick if I can avoid it.
We'll see, I'll talk to Bry and see what he says.
Oh... Yeah. Those darn nasty flies and mosquito's! now I understand why you'd want to quarantine him.
Sounds like you're doing a good job of trimming goats feet and you're making too. That's pretty cool.
Yeah, I sure do, and I sure am. :) Thanks.
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