We're up to our ears in goat related "stuff" this week. I spent an hour or two combing through our filing cabinet to find Esme's misplaced pedigree papers (finally found them) and then went outside to see that what was one goat with scours (we had attributed it to being a grain hog) has escalated and spread to the two kids, who are in pretty bad shape, Faunus the worse of the two. I jumped in the car for my second trip of the day to the feed store for antibiotics and electrolytes, then to the pharmacy for Kaopectate.

After much chasing (when we build a full scale goat shed someday, it is going to have a stall!!! The goats love being on pasture, and do fine with their three sided sheds, but man, when they don't want to be caught! ) and wrestling them last night, I managed to medicate everybody who was ailing, and this morning we discovered that they are more then happy to eat their grain/hay cube meals even when drizzled liberally with "the pink stuff", so that makes giving them the kao. easier. Tonight they'll get their second dose of a five day course of antibiotics (sulfur-di methox. 1 ml/10 lbs body weight). Faunus definitely wasn't his usual self this morning - even one day of bad diharhea can dehydrate a little guy like that, but I have my fingers crossed, since the antibiotic does seem to be working, that he'll rebound and we won't lose him. Poor guy...

In better news, Esme has been pretty good in the milking stand, and we've arranged to trade for one Togg and buy another from a breeder/commerical dairy in PA. We're still arranging a meet up day and time, but hopefully that will happen soon. Laurie Ann breeds Toggs down the road, so we'll have close access to a buck, an issue since large dairy breeds in our area are few and far between. OK, I'm off...just a few more hours and I can run home to tend to the sick goats...