You won't believe what I found in the Pond!

good morning everybody it's Brooke with Mrs cogill Farm we got some rain last night look at Scott's tail all hanging down and wet he does not seek shelter when it rains he tends to sit out in it and probably enjoys it a little bit but I just notice noticed something that I want to go over and show you guys okay so here we are are at the Avary and uh this is what happens every morning you see what's sitting on that Nest I'm not sure if that's her or him but everyday occurrence to come and sit on the nest work on it a little bit check things out and maybe even lay an egg so that's a good start to our morning every day and one morning she's not going to get back up and that's going to be my indication that she is has laid another egg I'm not giving up hope I think it's going to happen it's just on her clock okay before we go in and gather eggs they sure are putting up a Ruckus in there we got to check on our lovely Mard that has been sitting over here at a spot in front of the greenhouse and I'm anxiously anticipating the day when she is no longer sitting so let's go take a peek okay here we are uhoh uh-oh a empty nest could it be could the eggs have hatched well let's go see if we can't find Mama Mard but first we got to gather eggs oh we got a fussy hen in the Box this morning I'm not going to mess with you girl let's see what we got oh that one's got a crack in it so we don't want it two 11 aren't they beautiful 13 28 eggs so girls y'all are doing a great job now let's go see if we can't find that Mama M okay so I don't see any thing but geese out here uh I'm on my way to the barn to put the eggs up and I thought that I might catch a glimpse of the mama out here with hopefully babies hopefully something get her eggs um goodness you just never know all right so we'll look some more after we I see nothing let's go put the eggs up and uh take care of everybody in the barn and then we'll look a little bit further the goats are still still put up from last night uh Mildred Jesse and honey are out grazing and Capri is still pregnant so uh well I say still pregnant she was last night when I put her up so we got to check on them we got to check on the babies and see about Miss peaches all right let's get the lights cut [Music] on all right good morning Miss peaches have you heard any talk of babies out here I'm going to feed you but let's go let's go check on these goats first and make sure there's not any babies Oh there's Capri no babies okay peaches I'm going to let these girls out girls and boys Tipp her and top and uh go back in and feed her and then take care of Miss Fifi it's just amazing to me how everybody comes out in the morning except for Capri all right Miss peaches come over here here and let's get you fed here you go good girl you go there you go all right so let's get Miss Capri in here and on the stand come on baby girl come on girl come on come so same thing I think we're getting real close uh I'm not sure how close but we're getting closer so Capri still doing well with her milk span training and I am still doing the same thing with with FiFi however the first day that I did it when she had the babies all the babies followed her so it's been quite a three ring circus to say the least to get Fifi in here without the baby's following her and if they do it's fine because all they do is jump around there's nothing they can get harmed on and uh I just put Fifi up here and you guys will see good girl all right Miss Fifi good morning and good morning to the three little babies let's see if you can can't make your way across without your babies following you this morning yay she'll be right back babies okay so Fifi beat me to the milk stand and that's okay so y'all I have a problem and that is the hard utter is back hard the babies are only able to nurse on the good side and I don't know why it it got back hard I'm still applying the cream as you can see but it's just I think it's hormones I think that they have um her raing hormones have just just allowed that other to go back to the state it was in and uh it's not good because the babies are only able to nurse on one side and they're three babies so that's a problem now I did go out and I purchased milk replacer I'm on standby to take over when the babies start growing and Fifi is not able to produce enough milk out of that one udder to support three babies because it's going to happen now that they have grown a bit they're taking a good bit of milk from her so let's get her back over to our babies and we'll continue this okay little ones are y'all ready for the door to open we got some sunshine this morning yay I got Little Miss Lara here with me and little Curtis and little red has no actually this is Little Red in here Curtis went outside with FiFi um her utter her I'm going to call it her good side is actually really full right now and that tells me that the babies have been asleep and they have not had their first first milk of the morning but you see little Lara there trying to latch on um she's really full and that's why I milked her down the other day is because she was hanging so low and her utter was so full that there was no way possible that the babies could latch on since that was done there haven't been any problems with the babies latching on and taking taking milk from their mama but I know that as these babies grow and they require a larger amount of milk to support their growth Fifi not going to be able to produce enough milk now if both UTS were working properly I don't think there would be any ISS issue but um I'm prepared I'm prepared to step in and help the mama out to supply these babies with what they need now what may end up happening is Capri in the past has had only one baby and if that's the case then I will be able to milk Capri down use Capri's milk to supplement these babies in bottles feeding and um that that would be better than milk replacement however at this time I don't have that option so I have the milk replacer on hand for if we need to do that before Capri babies are being born oh my goodness little Curtis you are so sweet little man but y'all they they are so sweet they're so affectionate I got one on my back right now um and they're growing so well they are all doing so well Fifi is a wonderful mama and being able to open this area up to where Fifi can go into the grass area has been wonderful the babies don't go far yet they step right out onto the dirt they stay in the stall for the most part but they have that option it looks like Fifi might be headed out now maybe not so um Fifi's going to go out there and walk around the babies will follow her they'll get what they need and then they'll take them a quick nap aren't they so precious this is a feathers they've been I have not seen the babies get off the dirt and now they're out of sight but y'all can see all three of them are perfectly healthy and hopping around and just a joy to be around they don't leave M side uhoh little Curtis got left behind he had to go so while the unexpected did happen Fifi's udder did Harden back up um I'm going to be right here to step in if need be it's not it's not anything that it's going to affect the health of the babies um I'll be able to supplement their feeding and hopefully Capri will produce enough milk to where they can have actual goat milk versus powdered milk when that time comes but for now we got to go see if we can't find some babies oh oh my gracious look at there it's the baby goslings look how much they've grown it won't be too much longer and I won't be able to tell who's the babies and who's the masam they grow so fast the other one's behind the and y'all see it every step it's mama takes it takes so it's covering it up but there they are there they go and we're going to head down to the pond on our way home and see what we can see Sylvester I do not need you following me if you go to Mama's house we'll never see you again that's right buddy go on back go on back to your home the barn I think the two ladies that were sitting side by side have gave up on their nest and I think Jason is going to be thankful to say that two goslings are probably all that we're going to have this year I spy a little something in the pond I'm sorry if this is a little bit wobbly but I can't believe my eyes oh my gracious look and listen that's her that's the mama and there are her babies oh my goodness they're everywhere how many is it oh my goodness and she's headed away from me obviously but I count let's see three four five six y'all there are eight babies eight babies and I'm just going to have to turn around and show y'all how far the pond is from the greenhouse yeah she's finding her way away from me fast but is that not a sight they look like little dots okay so here we are this is the pond and as far as you can see up on the other side of the hill I can't even hold the camera that high is the greenhouse this mama traveled a very long way with those eight babies and it had to have just happened because yesterday the nest was there okay not expected well while I know Jason would not have been happy with well eight baby goslings maybe he won't mind eight baby mards maybe this was quite an exciting find and uh really kind of makes my heart Happy I was thinking the worst when I saw that she was gone because anything could have happened I I really did not I thought she had been sitting much longer than 30 days um we had moved the chicken Co she was there y'all know how many days it's been that I've showed you that she was sitting that's been a long time and uh I was really just expecting the worst so to say this was a good outcome I'd say so all right Sylvester you followed me all the way down here I'm going to have to take him back before I go back inside because my mama does not need another cat y'all be good [Music] w [Music]

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Length: 16min 19sec (979 seconds)

Published: Thu May 02 2024