Well, doesnt look like we are going to be having any beautiful coloured baby goats as I’d hoped. Lulu looked to be in season earlier this week .. she was bleating & rubbing up to Andy, our male donkey, so guess the 6 weeks she had with the buck was unsuccessful AND she’s come into milk! I googled it & seems to be precocious udder, so, we will milk her once a day to relieve the pressure & see what happens.
The really sad part is that, yesterday morning, we discovered our other young goat, ZhaZha, dead in the shed. We are so shocked.. she was happy & playing with our little boys the day before. She looked very healthy & I can find nothing in the paddock that she may have eaten to poison her so a real mystery… & very very sad. My dad (raised on a dairy farm) says “when you have livestock you get deadstock” but this is absolutely no consolation to me. I would never make a real farmer.. These things hit me so hard, & every time I lose another ‘best friend’ I stop to analyze why we are doing this & consider how easy & stress free life might be on a town section.
~ Zha Zha 22 November 2008 – 6 September 2010 ~
