Update

Over the past 2 weeks we have had 7 more lambs. Two of those ended up being orphans. Their mother decided not to feed them so we brought them in the house. After a week those lambs and the goats graduated to a small stall in the shelter. So no more livestock in my house.

We drag hot water, hay, feed and milk down to the shelter every day. We still have two ewes in the 'maternity ward' waiting to have their babies. Finally we got the 4wheeler working so we are able to drive all stuff down in the wagon. That was a marvelous thing because those 5 gallon gas cans that we used for the hot water are really heavy.

We are still hand feeding the 2 lambs and Eclipse. Unfortunately poor Nestor died. He was just fine one day, and then the morning feeding the next day he didn't want to eat much and he seemed tired. At the noon feeding he wouldn't eat anything and his stomach was really distended. He didn't want to get up and walk either. We called a vet and left a voicemail, and Eric called all of his 'goat info' people. We found out that sometimes bottle babies will guzzle the milk if the nipple hole is too big and they swallow alot of air. They cannot get rid of that air and it just gets worse and makes them lethargic. That gas eventually kills them. The only thing that can be done is to open a hole into their stomach to release the gas. By the time we got this info little Nestor had already died.

He was the sweetest little goat and we will all miss him.

We go through 1 bag of dog food, one bag of sheep feed, one bag of corn for the pigs 9 bales of hay for the sheep and 1 large round hay bale (cows) each week. I am looking forward to when I have money in the farm account to pay for this.