Thankyou everyone for the great welcome, it's good to be around other goatie people.
Heidi: Yes, running a goat rescue can be both devastating and rewarding, some of the rescues we bring in are in such bad shape they no longer know how to walk or sit up so we need to medicate/rehabilitate them. Once they're back on their hooves we eventually re home them.
It's a very expensive job to do especially when the vets are needed but the rewarding achievment is beyond what words express, especially when they take their first step for the first time in weeks.
Buckden, we havn't had any frosts which is great for us here in Brisbane but the weather has been all over the place, one day its sunny and warm and the next its freezing cold, yesterday we were transferring babies into a new pen and it was threatening rain so it was a race against time, but by the time I went into the garage for the first baby the sun was hot and bright lol.
Once our rescues are rehabilitated we find new homes for them, the new owners are given the medical history/meds given/transitional feed/general goat info and some general meds to have on hand if they are new goat owners e.g. vit b shots, wormers etc.
Suzie Q, do you get to see your mum very often in Brisbane? are you south/west or north of Brisbane? we're familure with a few goat owners surrounding us.
KT: Clear Mountain is beautiful, you are every blessed, you're not all that far from us.
As far as the fences are concerned I always tell people the best fences to have when ya have goats is a fence that holds water, if the water can escape through then so can a goat lol. we've seen some of our goats do the weirdest things when it comes to fences. Once we had a very well behaved buck, happy to stay in his pen UNTIL...we brought two new girls home, they both came into raging heat and broke the buck out of his pen through the x 2 steel wire e -fence and double dog wire. He was never the same after that lol.
Our fencing is pretty straight forward, the herd get fed pretty good so they usually don't cause too much ruckus just the odd one that thinks they can rule the roost.
We love the Saanens, at present we have 6 Sable Saanens, 4 are pregnant 2 of those are in a bad way and due end of July but we're slowly pulling them through. We've had them coming up alsmost 2 weeks now. All the Sables came from the same property so the difference we see in the earlier additions is beautiful to see.
Yes I know what you mean about teens with goats nowadays, we have a couple of Mareemas on hand to guard our goats as animals tend to go missing around Halloween, teens out for a quick rebellious fix.
Thankyou for your offer of help it certainly is much appreciated. On average each day, at present I usually don't get inside until around 11:30am, I start milking, feeding etc at 8 am and then start again around 4, in between I take care of the home chores but thankfully my hired help (teenage daughter lol) will be coming home tomorrow from Nanango so she will take care of inside.
Thankyou all again for your welcome
