Em Nau Farm BLOG

I left off on my last jotting saying We plan to get our goats (four in total) over the Easter long weekend – well over Easter we only picked up two goats as the other two weren’t fit enough to travel, it seems that they had a tummy upset from some food they ate and weren’t in any shape for us to take ownership.

Drama’s aplenty over Easter (aside from two “pek-pek water” goats).  The eldest son of the Child-bride and myself was admitted to hospital on Easter Saturday with heart problems – he had a heart rate of 260ish - he is OK now and will head in for surgery on the offending section of the heart in about six to eight weeks.  The reader’s digest version of what happened was he was hanging out with his mates playing cricket and feel unwell so he went home, when he didn’t feel any better a while later he had one of his mates take him to the hospital (after trying a few doctors and another private hospital) where they 16 people working on him, he also needed the paddles to try to jump start the heart at one stage then they admitted him for observation.  After a couple of days they gave him an MRI which showed his heart was healthy but had an ‘electrical’ irregularity that needed the heart muscle to be burnt so as to control it.  

Leading up to Easter we built the goat milking shed, built a milking stand and the goat pen.  The goats have been such a joy since they arrived and they have one of the humans wrapped well and truly around their hooves – we should have had goats years earlier as they are.

Some of their antics have included getting out of their pen and standing at the door to the house ‘calling out’ to be milked then prancing back to the milking shed by my side and looking up expectantly for me to put the food in the trough.