Re: weather

LOL..no, no, no. It was one of those "I told you so" things. My husband doesn't do anything half-way. When he jumps in....he does a cannonball. Well, he did NOT realize how strong a billy goat is..especially when there are a BUNCH of nannies around and he wants to be in there with them. One of the billies broke a fence so my DH put him in with about 12-14 nanny goats while he was putting up a hot wire fence...which took several days. I told him..."do NOT put him in there...we'll have babies during the dead of winter and that is SO hard on the little ones". His response, "Oh they won't get pregnant that fast...it takes days for them to go into season once he's in there..." Right. He's talking to me....the farm girl. So now he is paying for that decision. They ALL got pregnant. You are supposed to stagger the breeding so they aren't all popping out at once...like they are now. But, DH was new to this and didn't want to listen to me. So, for the last two nights he's been out in the barn in very cold temperatures, building more stalls for the babies and mommas. He was overwhelmed last night...I just looked at him and said, "they can't all get pregnant that fast!" and rolled my eyes. Eight nannies had twins and one had triplets.



Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6




From: Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] weather
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:53:05 -0800 (PST)

Jessie, are you saying one goat had 19?!?!?

Donna
--- kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:

> 19!  Was this an intentional thing?  Breeding,
> selling? Sounds like you have your hands full,
> Jesse.
>
> Kitty
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
> > Same here. It was downpouring rain yesterday, 32
> degrees last night but the
> > ground did not freeze because it was so warm the
> two days before (62-70
> > during the day). Crazy weather. And since Monday
> we have had 19 baby goats
> > born, so we are trying to keep all the new babies
> warm. We have five heat
> > lamps in the barn!
> >
> >
> > Jesse Rene' Bell
> > Claremore, OK
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> > >Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > >To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > >Subject: Re: [CHAT] weather
> > >Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:04:55 EST
> > >
> > >We're getting the same sort of thing here, Donna.
> Crazy! It's been in the
> > >30s for a week - even at night. About three
> inches of snow fell Monday,
> > >with the temperature at 34 degrees. It's still on
> the ground, and still no
> > >freezing. Crazy! It is supposed to get warm and
> storm tomorrow, and
> > >then fall to the single digits. I think this is
> the nastiest sort of
> > >weather.
> > >I don't really mind bright, clear cold weather,
> especially if there is a
> > >snow cover, but I loathe this gloomy miserable
> mess. And I hate to
> > >think what it is going to do to next spring's
> flowers.
> > >Auralie
> > >
> > >In a message dated 01/13/2005 8:57:48 AM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > >gossiper@sbcglobal.net writes:
> > >well yesterday it was 60 here, by the weekend it
> is
> > >supposed to be 6 if we are lucky. hum....
> > >
> > >Last night we had a thunderstorm that woke me
> up..
> > >this is Illinois in January.. hum....
> > >
> > >Now wondering how my plants will survive this
> crazy
> > >weather without cover and lotsa wet!
> > >
> >
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