My love is not this blog nor is who Lame Cherry is. The majority of people get on these platforms looking for validation, when validation is in God, your Family and work.Work comes in many forms, and one is the miracle of turning a mammary excretion into baby goats. This has been my adventure again in the learning world of Nubian Goats, whose little ones are the best alternatives to dog ever created by God, in the reality, they act like puppies for a few months, then start acting like cloven hooved animals, so that about the time one is tired of dealing with a dog normally......goats start taking care of themselves and in requiring just set patterns of attention twice a day, they get along quite well if one has stockade panels to keep them in.
My goatikns this year are Gusty and Annie. I was there when their mother birthed them, and helped pull Gusty out of the doe.
There are things in most animals in they are as different in character as people.
Kids in goats I have found so far, have a more mature one, and a less mature one developmentally in the twins. Annie is about 2 days ahead of Gusty, and, in this case Gusty is the more aggressive of the two.
Nubians always talk, but at about 3 weeks they discovered they could scream and have been vocalizing loudly like all children do. They will just scream for the delight of it, and if one is 30 feet off talking to them, they will still bounce around like they are lost in complete circus.
I'm surprised about these two as while I take care of them, I'm not the primary feeder of them, and yet they little girls follow me around to the barn, the pump, to get the mail, better than most dogs.
I find in observation that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was claymation based upon goat kids, as if one watches that cartoon closely, the same mannerisms, walk and play are shown there, and are goats, as I have never witnessed deer fawns ever behaving like that.
Gusty behaviorally is the more independent one in not liking any cuddling. Annie is a cuddler, but after disciplining her to not jump on my shoulders and smack me in the face......yes little goats can launch two feet in the air if one is seated on the ground. They are amazing mountain terrain creatures God created.
You will find also they love to act like they can not hear you, will chew on any cords which are electric to their delight......and these two just love Christmas bells in chewing on chains and making them jingle.
As goats are all different, the grandmother of these two I have a bell on and she is fine with it. Their aunt though goes nuts if a bell is on her neck in being "afraid".....same bell she stands beside on another goat is fine, but on her neck it is a terror.
This year, instead of my pen I constructed at night for the kids, I purchased a 100 dollar metal screen dog kennel. It is really the answer as it has a plastic bottom for pee, I can put rugs and pillows in it, and when goats know they are caught, they behave better or else are forever pounding the furniture in trying something.
Never underestimate a goat getting into things and trying to get hurt. One jumped an electric fence, wound the wire around her foot and laid down like she was going to die. Gusty decided to crawl behind my television for some reason and got caught too. Nubians are very intelligent, but they are too bright into the things they get into.
In burning the horn nubs off, I hope successfully, and putting little dog collars on them during the day, so as they will not get caught on things at night and choke off, they really do quite well.
I mimic a "goat sound" in "COME ON" in making it more gravel and drawn out, and they bounce along behind me in knowing this is the signal for them to follow.
I still have an Emma that I use her name like that, and she comes in the same manner.
These two though in voice like to scream, while Emma has the prettiest call which is almost sheeplike. Emma though was my girl last year in cuddling on my lap as she was a runt in her legs would slide on the floor in not being strong enough, and I worried about her pelvis being damaged.
Em would groan while I petted her and chew her cud. She does not do that any longer, but does still talk to me.
I actually put up with pee smells and daily bed cleaning, as I believe one raises a better animal in the contact with humans. They learn to behave more, and while they do get ideas in running away from me for attention, yes goats love attention and expect you to behave as they like in you must be devoted to them, they do behave pretty well as I let them out of the pens to graze twice a day.
As the girls mother is a yearling doe, meaning her udder is not producing a full amount of milk, I have come to the point at one month in having to supplement. After reading all sorts of information, and not having other goat milk, I have been supplementing 1/3rd whole cows milk from the grocery and am going to 1/2 soon as the mother is only producing about 1/3 of a gallon each day.
There does not seem to be any problems, and the goatikins are adjusting.
For the record, if you are not careful, goat kids get the scours and then you get to clean that up in change of diet. The remedy I have read of is Knox Gelatin in a bottle of 1/3rd to 1/2 package and only needing two bottles before the stools firm up.
Thankfully have not been that stupid to have sour goat poop running all over the house.
These girls from the first week on have been water drinkers. They like warm water out of the tap, and drink quite alot. I just make certain it is between feedings and not before so they will eat.
I do not know the reason, but Annie decided she did not like one nipple on the bottle we had, and was quite not eating, and of course would scream when forced to have nipple in her mouth which she then devoured.
New nipple means no problem, so keep nipples on hand and I use sheep nipples as goatikns are little creatures.
That is about it for the adventure in information, as they are both dozing in the kennel beside me, chewing their cud, laying on each other.
Horn scabs have fallen off and bled, and I hope no scurs or partial horns growing. Is just a life of the Forefathers in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to George, Teddy and Ronald. One is validated and liberated by associations in husbandry of animals, as they teach you what "need" is and what "responsibility" is.
Most Americans now could not take care of themselves if the structure of Hardees, Walmart and electricity was not available.
The above information is animal husbandry million dollar knowledge which one only gets usually after animals have died in your care. You though have stolen it again for free.
Remember that in the Great Tribulation and you are not eating sh*t that day and instead have some food, that people who invested the time in the Obama whore times are the reason in God's Grace you are surviving, as they invested and did not steal from others.
It is all what is important in life for life.
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