We had a little boer goat born this week and we think he's blind, both eyes are cloudy. He's very strong and healthy so far. He had a difficult time eating with his mom so he's a bottle baby now. Right now we have him in the house in a box but soon he will move back out to the barn and drink from a bucket. We are still not sure how Hunny & Bunny are doing. We have been treating them for mastitis because their udders have been turning a grayish black color but they don't have any other symptoms and the milk appears fine. There has been no improvement in color but they don't act like they are in pain or sick. We took a sample of it to the vet today and they are going to culture it over the weekend and let us know Monday what's going on. It could also be bruising or just the color Toggenburgs change. That would be weird though if they just suddenly turned this color.
Our spring chicks (Americana & Buff Orpington) moved to the coop this week. They are about 5 weeks old. We made them their own safe pen with a heat lamp. This way they can still get to know the older hens so when we are ready to let them out of their safe pen they will hopefully all get along. I've been warned about the older hens picking on them and possibly killing them but so far they don't seem to care about them at all. The hens have only been in the coop about 4 days before the chicks so maybe they hadn't fully claimed it as their territory yet. We'll see in a couple weeks if they can all get along.
We had a basket fundraiser for the preschool this week, where we all put together some kind of basket for a silent auction. I put together a basket of HunnyBunny goat milk soap and lotion. It had 2 bars old fashioned honey oatmeal lye soap, 1 bar rose, 1 lavender, 1 honey & 1 vanilla. It also had two small bottles of lotion, one peppermint and one green apple. I also included some information about goat milk soaps and the ingredients in each.
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