Lions and Tigers and Bears ...?

Ok - Maybe not exotic animals but my domestic critters are keeping me busy lately!
First we have the puppies.  The AKC lab pups are now available for purchase!  YEA!  But in the meantime, we need to get shots for them, keep feeding them, yada yada.  Cute tho.  Hope they find good homes.

Then there are the chickens.  Or the lack of.  Down to 3 hens-old biddies- and one male guinea, one female wild turkey...useless!   OH and the Roosters we let roam (to eat bugs and keep snakes away) are only 2 now...  Not sure where the other two went or were taken?  sigh  We need some young layers and a couple more roosters - I miss my fresh BROWN eggs!

The cats.  Outside, Sassy (injured somehow a year ago - uses only 3 legs), and our two new kittens, Oscar and Salem, have gotten along well.  whew.
However, since Salem went into season, she's been gone almost as often as she's home.  We think she's living under the boat cover.  AND if she's preggers, she'll deliver in there!  sigh  I try to get my animals fixed, but $$ are tight.  If she IS PG, we'll just have to deal with it.  She's getting fixed before that if not.  They could be OSCAR'S kittens!  Altho the big male cats that hung around... could be daddy.

Goats.  sigh.  My favorite tiny goat (3-4 in shorter than others) got herself caught in the "cattle panel" fence - WAAAAAAY back near the preditor area. (Friday) I had a tough time getting her out.  She had her BODY stuck cuz her swollen belly (twins?) stopped her from getting back in.  goooood grief!

She even had a tinge of blood on her back where the cross bar had her pinned.  poor baby.   HOMER ( our rescued Burro )stayed with her & guided me TO her when I heard her cry.  He's a miracle.    She tried to give birth the next day.  I found her with a dead kid's head sticking out.  She was waddling!  (I have to laugh or I'll cry).  We saw the kids legs hadn't fit right - found them, pulled it right out - slicker'n shit - as some are known to say.  She seemed OK - wandered down to meadow to eat with others, ate hay etc. - but she died on Monday.  We figure she had another kid to deliver and it was held back, died and that was toxic to her.  We're not vets and we cannot take most of our "livestock" for med. care - or we'd be broke.  We've learned enough to birth quite a few breach birth kids etc. But there are some things we just cannot prevent.  Sad.  I'm down to only 3 females.

Dogs.  The outside labs are eating/pooping as usual.  sigh  Since Hubby is semi -crippled (well... he's healing a broken ankle - but it's not healing as it should - another worry)  I HAVE to clean their kennels this weekend!  ugh

And the &$*%((#*& weeds !!!!???  they LOVE my flower gardens!  crap.
I have to weedeat everything down while trying to NOT cut down things that haven't bloomed yet. - LOTS of bulbs out there.  Our neighborhood has free mulch - the only problem is it might have chemicals in it - but for free... you get what you pay for.  I need over 3 truck-beds FULL of it to do it right and completely.

I'm tired now.  Just thinking about it.  C'mon lottery!  Momma needs lots of helpers!  LOL