Goat coats and food exchange

Today the kids and Chris went and met his parents for lunch in Leduc.

Me? Not so much. I'm pretty sure I've developed strep. So I stayed home and slept.

But I still got prezzies...hee hee

My MIL got two kid coats knitted

Aren't they adorable?

I'm thinking it'll be pretty hard to lose whatever kid is wearing the ORANGE one.

If we get a Houdini goat that manages to do constant escape act ( knock on wood) we'll have a coat ready for them.

Anyways I'm thrilled with how they turned out, and wanted to share them in all there cuteness!

We also pawned off gave them two of the chickens out of the freezer. Since October we've only manged to go through 4 of the 18 birds. If I want  to justify getting more chicks this spring I'm going to have to empty that freezer at a higher rate. The bonus was I got one of her homemade lasagnas in exchange. DEAL!!!

I think were losing him

Tuesday night, when Linus came in the house.

He was completely limp, and almost lifeless.

We spent most of the night warming him up.

He stayed in the kitchen in the giant wire cage.

He made it through the night!!!

Yesterday, we managed to get some food and water into him.

He could stand for awhile.

I went out and got him A GOAT COAT.

(Okay, it's actually a XL Dog coat but it fit)

I thought we might be getting somewhere.

But all that has changed again today.

He won't take water again.

He hasn't eaten.

He falls over every time you try to get him on his feet.

He curls into a little ball, but his eyes are open he's not sleeping.

He's still in the house, he couldn't handle being outside even for a few minutes yesterday.

He's warm, but he's not happy.

I think we may be fighting something else as well. But I don't know what it is.

The question is was he sick? and that's what caused him to fall over in the snow? Or did he get hypothermia, and just can't get his strength back. He seems to be giving up.

I'm pretty sure we have a dying goat.