Goat-O-Rama Kids of 2024!

[Nanno]

Thanks! The kids are doing great this morning. Snowball is such a wonderful mama, but the poor thing seems like she needs a break and wants to hang in the other shed away from her kids. I can't blame her. The wind was howling most of the night with 50-60 mph sustained winds and gusts over 70 mph so nobody got much sleep. It's still blowing so unfortunately for Snowball I have to keep her locked inside with her babies today. I was planning to kick everyone else out of the pen and let Snowball putter around and graze within sight of her kids, but the wind is so high right now that if her babies try to follow her out of the shed I believe they will literally blow away. They're nowhere near big enough or strong enough to withstand the gusts we're experiencing so Snowball is just going to have to wait on that "me time" until it settles down out there.

I was concerned about little Gandalf last night because he was acting a bit stopped up. I had flashbacks to Marmaduke and the sad battle we lost with him last year when he blocked up and died. I massaged Gandalf's little tummy and worked his hind legs last night around 11:30 until he finally passed a small chunk of meconium. I was up again at 4:00 a.m. and saw him on the camera wiggling his tail and straining. I watched for a while, hoping I wouldn't have to go out there in the hurricane, but eventually I worked up the courage to go check on him. He was a little plugged up, this time with yellow milk poops instead of meconium so I was glad to see that. I pulled off a hard chunk cemented to his bum and he seemed happier. He was fine this morning. Phew! When you lose one it can sure leave you shell-shocked and paranoid about the next ones. These two look like they'll do fine as long as I can keep them from blowing away!