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MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
This past month has been AMAZING!!
And I can claim VICTORY in several areas, but ONLY because GOD played a major role!
Worst event..the DEMON who harasses me on a daily basis either caused, or was there when my goat, that she also shot in the eye was badly injured. The reason I know this is because she plays an audio recording of the goat SCREAMING right outside my door every morning!!!
Poor Oatie Goalie had VERY VERY FULL udders....to the point her teats were grazing the grass when she walked thru it!! Never have I seen a goat that full!! Anyway, she would NOT let me relieve the pressure and would NOT let me touch her udders. I thought surely her babies would come SOON.
They took another 10 days to be born. They were beautiful very big kids, both born dead.....it is a miracle they even came out!!
I then FORCED Oatie to let me milk her and we had many kicks and much tussling every morning and evening, until she realized how much BETTER she felt when the pressure was reduced. She was continuing to remain very full before every milking though.
One evening I was late returning from grocery shopping, and one of her udders had split wide open!!! Actually it APPEARED to have been CUT. THE WOUND WAS VERY DEEP AND COMPLETELY STRAIGHT!! It was as though someone had cut her down the exact middle of her udders. She was frantic and in a LOT of pain.
I was able to flip her over and restrain her, by wrapping my legs around her back legs, and drenched the area in "non-stinging" cleanser. Then I drenched with Hydrogen Peroxide......which DOES STING if it is a bad wound. We got past that and I cleaned her as much as she would let me with sterile moist wipes. I then FILLED the wound with antibiotic ointment and gave her 2 - 500 mg. capsules of Augmentin. I knew to use this, as I had used it previously with my flock of Angoras.
I did this twice a day for the entire month. She got to the point she understood I was.helping her and appeared to look forward to the treatments. I went through a la a LOT of antibiotic ointment, because after the first couLe of days I saw she was NOT going to die. The wound started healing over and knitting together, with a drain hole in the middle. I knew this could cause worse problems if it closed up completely before the inside was healed!! So, I would squirt some of the sterile solution, followed by colloidal silver up inside the wound and then use a pointed tube on the ointment to fill the space with ointment and then would rub the whole of both teats with the ointment. Because when she was cut, the test that was on one side completely collapsed, she now only has one working udder.
She is gradually healing up real well, and is now so badly spoiled she is much more like a dog than a goat!! She wants to come in the house (RV) and does not understand why I won't let her in.....I almost wish I could!!
The other CRAZY thing that happened, was my other goats and the two chickens that were not killed by the DEMON were raising a complete ruckus! I ran out and down to the pens just in time to see a Bald Eagle take off with my Barred Rock chicken!!! The other hen, who is a large red chicken (breed ???? does not look like a RIR) was frantic! I grabbed her and took her inside the hen house and sat and petted her for a while. She gradually calmed down, but she is now the only adult chicken I have!! I do have 10 babies I am raising, but they are only about 3 weeks old......gonna be tick city outside this summer!!!
Just thought I would let you know how my month has been going! GOD HAS answered my prayers though......after the udder incident, I had been praying for mercy and relief from the DEMON who harasses me.....and by golly, it happened!!! She must be pregnant....the key to my truck, which she had stolen, when I accidentally left in the hen house, back in January, turned up inside a plastic bag in the top basket of my deep freeze!!! She DID WAIT until I had to spend 300 dollars to get the keys replaced, to return this!! I believe she is PG, because during the last TWO pregnancies, she does not come around and bother me. At least she apparently values her baby's life!! So, third pregnancy in 4 and a half years......hope she grows up some for hers AND that POOR baby's sake!!
How was your month???
And I can claim VICTORY in several areas, but ONLY because GOD played a major role!
Worst event..the DEMON who harasses me on a daily basis either caused, or was there when my goat, that she also shot in the eye was badly injured. The reason I know this is because she plays an audio recording of the goat SCREAMING right outside my door every morning!!!
Poor Oatie Goalie had VERY VERY FULL udders....to the point her teats were grazing the grass when she walked thru it!! Never have I seen a goat that full!! Anyway, she would NOT let me relieve the pressure and would NOT let me touch her udders. I thought surely her babies would come SOON.
They took another 10 days to be born. They were beautiful very big kids, both born dead.....it is a miracle they even came out!!
I then FORCED Oatie to let me milk her and we had many kicks and much tussling every morning and evening, until she realized how much BETTER she felt when the pressure was reduced. She was continuing to remain very full before every milking though.
One evening I was late returning from grocery shopping, and one of her udders had split wide open!!! Actually it APPEARED to have been CUT. THE WOUND WAS VERY DEEP AND COMPLETELY STRAIGHT!! It was as though someone had cut her down the exact middle of her udders. She was frantic and in a LOT of pain.
I was able to flip her over and restrain her, by wrapping my legs around her back legs, and drenched the area in "non-stinging" cleanser. Then I drenched with Hydrogen Peroxide......which DOES STING if it is a bad wound. We got past that and I cleaned her as much as she would let me with sterile moist wipes. I then FILLED the wound with antibiotic ointment and gave her 2 - 500 mg. capsules of Augmentin. I knew to use this, as I had used it previously with my flock of Angoras.
I did this twice a day for the entire month. She got to the point she understood I was.helping her and appeared to look forward to the treatments. I went through a la a LOT of antibiotic ointment, because after the first couLe of days I saw she was NOT going to die. The wound started healing over and knitting together, with a drain hole in the middle. I knew this could cause worse problems if it closed up completely before the inside was healed!! So, I would squirt some of the sterile solution, followed by colloidal silver up inside the wound and then use a pointed tube on the ointment to fill the space with ointment and then would rub the whole of both teats with the ointment. Because when she was cut, the test that was on one side completely collapsed, she now only has one working udder.
She is gradually healing up real well, and is now so badly spoiled she is much more like a dog than a goat!! She wants to come in the house (RV) and does not understand why I won't let her in.....I almost wish I could!!
The other CRAZY thing that happened, was my other goats and the two chickens that were not killed by the DEMON were raising a complete ruckus! I ran out and down to the pens just in time to see a Bald Eagle take off with my Barred Rock chicken!!! The other hen, who is a large red chicken (breed ???? does not look like a RIR) was frantic! I grabbed her and took her inside the hen house and sat and petted her for a while. She gradually calmed down, but she is now the only adult chicken I have!! I do have 10 babies I am raising, but they are only about 3 weeks old......gonna be tick city outside this summer!!!
Just thought I would let you know how my month has been going! GOD HAS answered my prayers though......after the udder incident, I had been praying for mercy and relief from the DEMON who harasses me.....and by golly, it happened!!! She must be pregnant....the key to my truck, which she had stolen, when I accidentally left in the hen house, back in January, turned up inside a plastic bag in the top basket of my deep freeze!!! She DID WAIT until I had to spend 300 dollars to get the keys replaced, to return this!! I believe she is PG, because during the last TWO pregnancies, she does not come around and bother me. At least she apparently values her baby's life!! So, third pregnancy in 4 and a half years......hope she grows up some for hers AND that POOR baby's sake!!
How was your month???
