In Ever Loving Memory of Georgie

At approximately 3pm 7 yrs ago today I lost my Beloved Georgie - my majestic gorgeous boy- and am taking this moment to honor his memory he was very beautiful and VERY Special to me.. Just a tiny orphan when I got you - I fell in love immediately and you love to kiss mommy- and I loved your sweet kisses too.

You loved life and had a taste for Chocolate
Every year we had a cake for you and you shared with your best buds. We only had a few short years together- God took you just before your 7th birthday.And loved your nite nite Bahs! So I let you have your bahs until YOU wanted to be weaned- BTW you were 4 (YEARS) old :) I sure loved you! YOU loved to help mommy when she did anything in the yard- like fixing fencing- Oh what a help you were :) You took my heart and ran away with it.
(And people say billy goats are Mean- NOT MY Georgie!)
I miss you Georgie, Your graceful horns, your beautiful face, your gentle eyes and the smell of your fiber and feel of it against my face- Your slow majestic way you would walk with me on our long walks together- not a mean bone in your body and you were so young when you left me- I miss you every day YOU were my AngelGoat. Mommy misses you and someday we will be together again.

Kids born at Larkspur Funny Farm

Larkspur Funny Farm writes in her blog:

Thursday - What a DAY - Maggi had a tricky delivery At lunchtime I thought I would go out and check on everyone. Well, Maggi gave me that look - the scared s**tless look that happens when the Mother is not sure if her body is going to explode. I got her in the pen I made for her and then spent the next three hours trying to keep her in the pen. As her contractions grew closer, her wild eyes grew bigger. I grab my chair and started to give her slow breathing patterns. Then I tried to maintain eye contact with her to have her track my breathing. Just then, her mother (Esmerelda) in the farest pen started crying out to her daughter. Then in the pen next to her mother was her grandmother (Eboney)and she joined in. Soon the barn was filled with the ear piercing sounds of concerned relatives. My Great Pry dog had enough of the noise and left the barn.
Read about all her wonderful kidding blogs and see photos of her Beautiful kids

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Each page has a quick reference gestation calendar (Leap Year Friendly!) for ease of dating your bred does. Each page has a "Goat Notes" section as well.

• January
  Conversion Charts for figuring dosages
  Dairy Goat Weight Chart
  Pygmy Goat Weight Chart
  
• February
  Hay Nutritional Charts
  Grain Nutritional Charts
  Fodder Nutritional Charts
  Quick View Ca:Phos ratio Chart for Hay
• March
  Goat Medicine Chest
  Illustrated List of Basic Medical Supplies
  Illustrations of Medical Equipment
• April
  Kidding Supply List
  Breeding Information List
  Signs of Early Labor
  SwingBaby™ Technique Photos
• May
  Milking a Goat
  Milk Equipment
  Handling Milk
  Milk Nutritional Chart
  Heat Index Chart
• June
  Parasitology
  Dewormer information
  Anemia Eye Chart
  Bottle Jaw Illustration
  Parasite Quick Chart
• July
  Worms
  In depth coverage of the 5 most common worms
  including illustrations of the eggs
  Larval development
  Symptoms
• August
  Recognizing a Sick Goat
  Sick Goat Check List
  Goat Physiological Chart
  What to know before you call the Vet
  
• September
  Neonates,Babies and Kids
  Bottle baby feeding Illustrated
  Baby poop- normal and scours Illustrated
  Tapeworm illustration
  Birth Chill
  Tubing baby goats
• October
  Illustrated Text Book Kidding and explanations
  A real Life Kidding Experience
• November
  Bloat
  Ruminal Bloat
  Abomasal Bloat
  Illustrated explanations of how bloat effects the Goat's Body
  How to treat Bloat
  Wind Chill Chart
• December
  Supply Sources, Meds and Kidding Records
  Vet Supply House information
  Place to record you 2008 Kiddings
  Most Common Meds used for Goats and dosages I use

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• * January 2008 – December 2008, 2009 preview, US holidays marked

Each page has a quick reference gestation calendar (Leap Year Friendly!) for ease of dating your bred does. Each page has a "Goat Notes" section as well.

• January
  Basic Goat Body diagrams
  Fiber and Dairy
• February
  Antibiotics chart
  Medical Abbreviations
  Veterinary Supply list
• March
  Poisonous plant chart
  (including toxic parts of plant and symptoms)
  
• April
  Teeth and dental Guide
  Basic Hoof Trimming Guide
  
• May
  Kidding fetal positions
  Kidding Supplies to have on hand
  Signs of labor
  
• June
  Goat Digestive system
  Kid digestion vs adult
  2 goat milk soap recipes.
  
• July
  Anatomy of an Injection
  10 steps of giving an injection
  Understanding SubQ injections.
  
• August
  The CLA Controversy
  How to deal with CL-
  photos & diagrams of abscesses of different types
  Treating CLA
  
• September
  Holding a goat for oral medicating
  Dehydration chart w/2 formulas for emergency electrolyte solution
  List of meds that are typically given orally
  Metric/standard equivalence chart.
  
• October
  Basic physiological goat data
  Fetal development chart (with photos)
  Common causes of fetal mortality
  The effects of False Hellebore,
  (so you can recognize it if it happens to you)
  
• November
  Gastro-intestinal parasites,
  (list of the most common and effects)
  List of the most common dewormers
  Anemia Eye color chart
  A brief on encysted worms
  
• December
  Guide to Castration with photos
  Disbudding diagrams
  Tattoo letters for the years 2006, 2007, 2008

Babies, Babies and MORE Babies

Kidding season- My favorite time of year! We have been busy here at the goatlady ranch, how about you?
We would love for you to post your kidding season stories, and photos of your babies too!
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Our latest addition to our herd was on Father's Day- Joie was born to Pixie Princess at 6pm and is he ever a cutie!
This blog is for you (AngelGoats Members) to brag about your babies, show winnings and about your goats in general! Let us know what is happening at YOUR farms!

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The Sun is Shining

The rain is finally gone (for a few days anyway) and things are beginning to dry out- The goats are happy about this as am I ;)-

This is Itty Tute- what a cute face!

Hope all are having a great day!
Don't forget to join the blog and post pics and news about your farms and goats!
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Goats graze at Sunnyvale landfill to prevent fires

Goats graze at Sunnyvale landfill to prevent fires
Hundreds of goats are grazing on a closed Sunnyvale landfill as part of an annual tradition to prevent summer grassfires at a location that has seen its fair share of fires in the past.

I knew all I had to do was to leave the city and the goats would come- ;)
All my life I lived in the Bay Area- No goats in my life- Moved to Az in 1990 and began raising goats shortly thereafter- 16 yrs later- Goats in Sunnyvale,which is just where I moved from. Go figure!

Goat-Link-In Loving Memory

Losing an old friend of 20 years is heartbreaking- especially when he was a beautiful angora goat.



Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge

Ma is now with my Beloved Georgie and others I have watched climb the stairs to Heaven:

If Tears Could Build A Stairway
And Memories A Lane
I’d Walk Right Up To Heaven
And Bring You Home Again



It's been a very long day- tomorrows will never be the same-
goatlady