We Had A REALLY Bad WEEK And NOW Finally Some REALLY Good LUCK!

Oh, good morning. Hi, little man. Are you waiting for us? You're so cute. Yep, every morning we come out. He knows when to come. And he kept, look how, he's a grown-up kitty now. He's like, why did you take your hand off me? Look how big he is. You're so sweet. What a good boy. He is, when Sam lets the dogs out this morning, he's out there running in the grass with the dogs. And then he waits for us. Our cats are really licky. And then he comes with us. Then he comes with us, follows us to the barn. Anyway, good morning guys. Welcome to today's video. I've got a story for you. I'm going to save it for a little later. It's a horror story. Oh, look. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I'd be so excited to be surrounded by cats. Little Anya, she still thinks that he, he's, he's a bad boy. She protects the goat barn and doesn't like him in there. Doesn't like him near there. And trust me, he doesn't listen to her. He goes in there now, but I'm okay with that. Look, everywhere we go, cats are following us. Come here, baby. Come here baby. They all just come. I used to believe, Oh, Hey, it's okay. What happened? She's afraid of something. Come here. All right. I'll see you later. I had a big snuggle session in the barn with her last night, yesterday. So I don't know why she's, why she, what she's afraid of. There are cats across the road and I know that they don't like them on our property. Anyway, I used to believe that cats should always be inside. And I still kind of believe in that. But on a farm, you really need cats and man, do they make a difference? And man, it's so, it's been so eyeopening seeing the life that they have, not being in the house. And I still think you can pamper cats, even if they live in the barn. All right. I haven't cleaned the stalls yet. I'm still doing chores, feeding everybody, letting them out. How cute is that? Oh, she just fell. They're just, they've just learned to jump up on this. And in fact, the little boy couldn't. They climb up over on the feeder and then jump up. I had to come down here and show him how to do it after he spent a whole night sleeping on the ground by himself. I try and feed her in her own stall so that the babies in her can have their own food, but she won't. Our goats are so weird. She wants to eat with everyone else. Oh my goodness. You made a big mess of this stall, mama. All right. So let me tell you guys about this sad story. The sad story starts like this. My ears got plugged. My ears got plugged and then I got an infection in it. So I went to the doctor and I got antibiotics. So I got antibiotics and then after I got antibiotics, mama, she needs the bottle. She's itty bitty. She's not even five pounds. The other ones are chewing my shirt. So I got antibiotics. They didn't work. So then I went back to the doctor, which was a whole feat and I got eardrops with steroids in them so that it could cure like an outer ear infection. When I went to the doctor last night to get the eardrops, they said they can't even see inside my ear because my whole ear is so swollen and full of wax. So I put the eardrops in last night thinking, oh my God, this whole miserable journey is going to be over. It's not. Put the eardrops in and instantly they got trapped in there because my ear is so plugged. Everything just gets trapped in there. So now I have like, my eardrum is full of wax, full of fluid and so painful and I can't hear. So yeah. And I've like been through the ringer trying to get this fixed and I don't know where to go next. She doesn't drink much, but she drinks a little. Here she is. Here she is. My favorite girl. Little Miss Maple. This is Maple. She's my favorite. You are my favorite. Here's a little boy. A lot of people like him because he's so cute. His color. He's an eco baby. He's an eco baby and he's just like his dad. Kind of cautious. A little bit cautious, huh? But we're doing our best to make him friendly. And sometimes he'll drink a bottle. Let me get it in. Okay. Not today. So anyways, he is a sweetie and he's five pounds. This girl is a vixen. What is a vixen? I don't even know what a vixen is. She is a devil. She's a devil of a goat. I do not know whose baby she is, where her personality came from, but she's wild. She will take on anybody who comes up to her. She's never taken a bottle. She's the biggest out of them. Well, he's kind of gaining on her. So yeah. And it's funny how like, she has such a different face, but have you guys noticed like the shape of her face is elongated? It's kind of long and it's because she's pulled. And the same with the other little girl, Maple. This is Opal. And she's really sweet. Really sweet. So loving. All right, let's go outside, babies. And that goat you hear screaming in the background? I don't even know if you could hear her because I can hardly hear her. That goat is Lola's baby. He's a screamer. Let me check this girl again today. Does that udder be looking like an udder? Get out there, Maple. Come on. I know you beat to your own drum. I'm gonna have to catch her. Because this way. They all run out here and pee. There you go, little babies. They be loving life. All right. So yesterday I left you guys wondering if this goat could be pregnant because her udder looks oddly bigger. Hi, Crick. So the only way to tell, you know what? I think she's just fat. Because when an udder turns into an udder, it gets some breast tissue. It gets breast tissue in it. And hers just looks fat, which basically she needs a diet. She needs to go on a diet because she is fat. Let me feel again. I mean, there could be some breast tissue in there. But I'm pretty sure she's just fat. There's my girl. And the day that I left her, the days that I left her with the buck, she didn't seem interested in him at all. So and we didn't see them breed. So pretty sure she's just faking me out. But I'll keep a watch. This is my oops. This is my girl. This is my girly. This is my dream girl. Calling it now. She's so sweet. She's just exactly like Oakley was. And she's not even related to Oakley. One step forward and another back. I would never try to fool you. I'm one heartbeat away from going mad. Girl when you look like that. I love you. I just don't like you chewing my hair. Oh, you are just a feisty one too. And she's feisty for sure. Mama feeding her babies. And our boy. So for sure he leaves tomorrow to go to the buck field. And it's going to be the saddest thing ever because he found himself a mom and a life over here with the girls. And he gets redder and redder like he is a gold. But he's a bright, bright gold. It's not showing up in the camera, but he's like he's so so gold. I literally can't wait for his babies. He's so pretty. Still kind of flighty though. All right, let's get to work. I got to clean stalls. I got nothing for you Hazel. I got nothing for you Hazel. It's finally goat day and I got something new for them. And Winston is noticing. So this is what I got today. I ordered it. I didn't realize it one pound. It was so such a small bag. But what it is, is it's organic minced garlic. I've read garlic is poisonous to goats. And I've also read it's good for them. So I got some for the horses as well. And basically what happens is that if you feed it to your goats and your horses, they say like one, the first three days of the month, each month through the summer, the mosquitoes won't bother them. So I'm going to try it and see how it goes. It's nap time. Everybody is napping. All the girls over here. And then the little boy over here. Down. Those are crazy. Give some to Oakley and Toffee. Oh my gosh. Yes, I got some apples for you too. How many bucks, buckskins do we have now? How many is that? She's so hungry. Here, give some to Toffee. Look how little Toffee looks. Remember how fat and obese she was? She looks good now. She's so cute. Let her have some. She doesn't want any. Oakley got it all. We literally ate them all yesterday. Oh, now I feel bad because all those reserved ones that don't come running out. They didn't get anything. Oh, here's some. We'll give some to Toffee. Fat, I mean cricket. Cricket. I mean, she doesn't look that fat. She's not that thin. Eat it woman. We have one black goat, like one pure black goat. I wonder if the little guy would want some. You keep jumping on me, but you don't want it. Sylvia and I have totally different experiences with the baby goats. She says this one is the sweetest goat of life and that she just snuggles into, but she doesn't do that with me. See, she gives kisses. The little maple does that with me. Maple doesn't like me. So if you're wondering, I'm still loving my little boy. I don't know why, but I love the boys that I get from this one breeder. Totally different parents this time than Ziggy was, but for some reason, they just look really nice. Like for a long time, they just look really nice. Totally different look to them even, but her boys always just look nice. She said the mom is the same, always looks nice, but the mom looks more like her. Everybody's peeing. What are they naming that boy? So by goat day, what I mean is it's feet day for some of the goats. See, she be looking rough. And just like that, I got Toffee. So Toffee's lost weight. She's lost a little bit of condition because one, she was pregnant for a really long time. And then two, she's been nursing babies and it takes away from your body. And she still has a bit of a belly. She looks so cute though. I mean, she was so obese before. One thing, wow. One thing about checking your goats, putting them on the stand and checking them over is you get to see like, you get to see a lot of different things. Like her hair is really dry. She has really dry hair. You just get to look them over and you guys, I figured out what my nutritional deficiencies are from. So you know how I told you in the winter, I struggled really hard trying to keep our goats healthy. We had some actual nutritional deficiencies this summer. We had a goat that had a copper issue. And then Winston, our boy had a zinc issue. I don't think I showed you guys. It was just recent. And I figured out what it was. It's because Winston, just like in the last month, he started losing hair on his back. Like he just got like a bare spot, which is usually zinc, not regular shedding, like an actual, all the under hair fell out and you just had like loose hair on the top. You couldn't see it just looking at him across the field. You were standing above him. You could see that he was had a big bare spot. Even Sophie noticed it. And then the minute they got out on grass, the grass all came in. They all got like that all went away. His hair all came back. So I'm pretty sure that the issue is our hay. So that's what Sam and I are going to work on this summer. There's no hay right now because it hasn't been cut yet for the season. It's really hard to get good hay here. So we're going to work on that for next year. We're going to try. We have a lot of things that we're going to, that we're going to look for as the hay gets cut and we're going to try and store some. So hopefully this doesn't happen to us next year. Her feet literally took forever because her nails are so hard, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Don't you go because goats can get hoof rot. We'll find your babies. Get out there. I really like her. She's an itty bitty. I'd like to see her slim down just a little bit more. Even she loves her baby. So, all right, are we ready? So Sophie put collars on some of our babies. She says the little Gemma is not really ready. She's too small, but she got a little yellow collar. She does not look happy. And Pip. Pip's almost looking like a full growing goat now. She got pink. So cute. I gotta find a leash. So Sophie and I decided to try and walk a couple of our goats. Oh, you got her. So we have Button and we have Gemma. I'm not even putting pressure. I'm just not letting it go. And you just kind of have to like guide them. So dramatic like your dad. Come on, we're going for a walk. At least yours is walking forward. Not really. See, you're just holding the thing and they pull back. Come on. So I'm just standing here and she's putting all the tension onto the rope. Come on. Come on, baby. Come on. It's not as fun as I thought it was going to be. Is it for you? Well, they say you just got to take them around, but typically you hold it behind them like this. They make it hard. I'm trying not to drag her. Come on. They're literally just screaming for their mamas. The boys are prancing. They're like, wow. Come on, let's find mama. Let's find mama. Oh, I lost mine. All right. I think this is your daughter. One of these. One of these. Are both of these Ziggy babies? No, neither of these are your daughter. All right. They're eating the grass here. They're liking that. That's a positive. They're going to like being with the boys. That's Button's dad right there. That's your daughter. It's the only baby. Only living daughter that you have. Yeah, your first daughter. Your first daughter. Oh, they stink now. It's starting to become rut season. Hi, baby. She's like, just let me chew your hair then. I'll be happy if you just let me chew your hair, she says. It was just me you were with. It's just me. I don't know. I feel like Button's doing the best. Is she? She wants Nico. Who will we breed her to? So she's getting bred to the new boy, Dash. Who's this girl getting bred to? I think. Not this year. I think we said, I think we said a boy. Well, she's definitely getting bred to a boy. Yeah. Which boy? I think the new boy. Yeah, I think that's a good choice too. I don't like him. I like him. I don't like the way he looks. Oh, you don't like Oreo? The way Oreo looks? I like his name and his color. I know. I mean, he is a really nice goat and that's what it used to be like. That's, he comes from show lines, but we like the more dairy look now. I like that one. Yeah, I don't really like the way he looks either. Okay, well. I'm growing out of his look. I'm more into Dash. Look at her. She saw the horses. When I look at Nico, I still really like him. I like him better shaved though. All right, so it's Willow's day off today. In fact, she's having the whole weekend off, but we're missing a part of the harness. So like six years ago, I bought this harness off somebody off of Marketplace. I'm afraid to be back here because I think that raccoon, the raccoons live back here. Anyways, I bought that harness set and also they used it for was lawn driving. So she didn't really use it for anything else. And I'm pretty sure there were a lot of pieces and we didn't know what they all were. So just left it in a box because the reaching, reaching, I forget how you, I forget what it is, is this piece that goes around the back of the horse and it's a braking system. But what it breaks is if the horse is going downhill, it prevents the cart from bumping into their bum, which our cart hasn't ever done that yet. But so he hasn't done a lot with the horse. So yeah, she's going up and down hills. But anyway, you need that for the horse's safety because we never want that to happen. And I know that there's a box back here with horse stuff in it where we had all the halter, all that stuff. So that's what I'm doing. I'm looking for that. I was totally prepared to say I didn't find the box, but then I found the box. I also found a whole box of brand new flip-flops. Yeah. So I think that goes on the front of her. All right. Yeah. There's the bridle that goes with our set. So we got the leather set. Is this leather? Yeah. It's a bitless. That's a noseband. A noseband. It's a halter. Come on. Be in here. Be in here. Yeah. Oh my God. It's a freaking miracle. That's it. Oh my gosh. You guys, this is like $350 plus tax. Yep. That's it. Wow. It is it. Bring it in and I'll wash it. Well, you can't wash it with water. I know. I'll clean it. Wow. It is like, I feel like it's been a wild week. I'm not going to lie. It's been a wild week. That is like, I can't believe it. Hey, a new thing I have to figure out. A new thing she has to figure out. Oh man. This is also in front of her chest. It goes behind her butt. I don't know. I have pictures. I'll show you. Do you want to bring your tack inside and clean it? Cause you said you wanted to clean some tack. Anyway, we also have this. I don't know if it's like an extra one. This is ugly as, as heck. I want to get some new pads. You can get really nice pads. And I've seen them have like padding in the front of their chest, but I don't know if that's, I literally just saved myself $400. I can't even believe it. I can't even believe I found it. Like I was talking to the coach that's going to coach Sophie. And I said, I don't know how to find this thing. And she said, it comes with the set. And I said, I don't think ours came with it. And then I was thinking, Oh yeah, maybe it did. Cause we just haven't used it. Also I have a friend who wants to buy a rear riser. I don't know. I think we gave them to Elizabeth. We might've given them to Elizabeth because I do not see them. Goes like that. That's for the front. All right. I don't know if that's good though. Cause it's really thick. She might appreciate it or she might not because it's summer, but we'll see. All right. Bring that thing in so I can try and figure it out. My job here today is done. Might not seem like we accomplished much, but that was a lot of work finding this.