Goat Shelters And Such

With all these baby goats, I've decided to keep a few instead of selling them all. I'll go from two dairy does to four and from 4 meat

does to 6. 

I'm building several of these small shacks for shelter from the rain and sun, and come fall I'll add some side panels and move the front to face south, to catch all the sun I can. They already seem to love the shade from these things.  

    

                                                                         

I've got some baby chicks too. They hatched out two days ago, and I've moved them and their mother to a small pen of their own.

They're a cross between a Rhode Island Red rooster and a Buff Brahma hen. I'm anxious to see the outcome once they're grown.

Everythings late this year, due to the hail and flooding, but the root crops are coming along pretty good, 

and I've been getting tomatoes

here and there, along with the hulless oats and now the sunflowers are starting to bloom. 

The oats and sunflower seeds make good, cheap feed for hens and goats, but there's a lot of labor in the harvesting of them.

Billy Goat Update

                                                        It looks like Rooster;'s going to be ok. I think he is, anyway.
                                                          Here's a short video of him up and around this morning

Sick Little Billy Goat

 I've spent the last 3 weeks and 5 days doctoring a baby goat round the clock with electrolytes and thiamine injections every three hours, antibiotics and pro-biotic everyday and cleaning his feces off him every morning and evening. I brought him back from deaths door 4 times and I think by the looks of him this morning, the little son of a bitch is gonna make it. He's eating like a horse.

I call him Rooster, cause they ain't found no way to kill him yet. Only the really cool people will get that reference.