Who says you can’t have a goat in the house? Well, I’m sure my sister-in-law says it… But, I think we’re doing a pretty good job.
At about ten days old, the little girl from our first set of triplets had a pretty rough day. The two boys were getting big enough that she could not push them out of the way when it was time to eat. When the sun warmed up to about 90 degrees, she was worn out by that evening. She should be able to look forward to a good night’s rest.
Whoosh! Early the next morning, the wind came howling in. When I walked out to the field to check on her, I found her trying to crouch in the small space between her two brothers and her mother – catching all of the wind as it blew the sand across the ground. I scooped her up with one hand and tucked her inside my jacket where she fell asleep instantly. She was too exhausted for two days after that to even lie down, and could only really go to sleep if I held her against me. Thank goodness I’m milking Leah, and am able to feed her the best thing there is for her!
She also ended up with a sunburned nose and pinkeye in both eyes from the dust storm. The first couple of days, both eyes were pretty sticky and it took some time soaking them to be able to open. She also has the telltale blue clouding in both eyes. Her right eye is about a day or so ahead of the left, and cleared up after about a week. The other eye is much worse, and will take more time to heal. I do not want to put her back outside with the wind we’ve been having until both eyes are cleared completely!
She gets her face washed with cotton balls twice a day, and I keep them flushed with a silver solution. I alternate it with a tea made from cabbage juice (old Greek eye remedy), a bit of goldenseal tincture, and cayenne (as a circulation booster). I tried that one in my eyes first to make sure it didn’t sting too bad! A tiny poultice with the cooked cabbage helps to draw edema out (old Irish remedy) and she had the cabbage juice in her milk for extra bit of diuretic.
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I give her fruit juices in her bottle for the vitamins – about an ounce or so in her milk. She really liked the carrot, which has Vitamin A for her eyes; and I gave her some mango juice (my favorite) because it’s loaded with Vitamin C. Well, DUH. A lot of V-C can cause scours, albeit not the bad kind. So, she deposited some bright orange “mango puree,” and JW has called her Mango ever since. He also thought it would be funny to give her some of the blueberry juice next, but I didn’t go that route. >>insert eye roll here<<
She is so good about being doctored, just lies in my lap and goes to sleep while I wash her. She even held perfectly still and let me hold that cabbage poultice on for fifteen minutes! She is a happy little camper, and I keep telling her Granny will surely miss her when she has to go live with the other goats. (Can you tell?) I’ll probably put her in with the dairy goats and let her grow up with Star. And, would you believe that she is potty trained! She sleeps under my chair while I work, and when she gets up to go, she started going into the hay inside her little dog carrier! Maybe I can keep her in the house after all…
