Thursday, June 05, 2014

Babies! Babies and MORE Babies!

We have been VERY busy here. Monroe had her puppies just under 2 weeks ago!  


She had 7 puppies: 5 by "normal" means and 2 by C-section. It was a exceptionally long day. We spent 7  -1/2 hours at the vet. Our vet is FANTASTIC. She stayed and waited and just watched until 11 pm before deciding that a C-section was needed.  We got home about 12:30 (with 2 exhausted kids, a stapled and stitched up dog, and a basket of just born puppies) to find that Adams ( the male Great Pyrenees) had opened the door and the goat and sheep were inside eating pudding cups and snack bars and drinking juice boxes.  I about had a stroke.
Everything was fantastic for about a week. We took Monroe to get her staples out and she was getting red and hot and swollen around the teat area. The next day, she pulled away from the babies. She was very hot and red sooo to the vet we went. She has mastitis. We started with a conservative treatment so the puppies could remain fully with her. We did start supplementing just the runt (Runt-y). 4 ish days later is was obvious she was even worse and then we started her on daily antibiotic shots and anti-inflammatory pills. I think that gets us to now. The puppies are 10 days old now.











We had been saying that we weren't keeping any. Well. I know, I know. We are now. Morely, I am.


This girl!  I'm going to train her as my service dog. I've been told that "I need to accept that perhaps this is as good as its going to get" in regards to my hand. She has a great disposition, a calmness. 

I wish this had worked out how we wanted it to, but for now we're having to supplement all the babies.


The baby goats are growing a bit bigger. We finalized their names (probably).

The brownish one is G Rabbit and the other is Trouble. Both are growing well and doing just like they should be. Turns out, Trouble is appropriately named. Adams is taking fantastic care of these two while we've had to move Monroe inside while she heals.




We've also managed our first successful breeding of  our 2 Full Flemish Giants. 





I need to take new pictures, they've opened their eyes and are fully furred now!


We also have 2 rescue kittens in the rabbit barn! Ms. Kitty died from some odd virus (or so we think) but this rescue group had too many.



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It is a boatload of preciousness pretty much 24/7.







1 comment:

Sarah said...

All the babies. It's definitely spring at your place.