Glug Glug Glug!

The first Yak in Clallam County / the Northwest Peninsula drank his first milk today! It took an hour or so to actually make him drink from his bottle, be he eventually did - And here's my shot at capturing the event. The amazing, warm, and rare sun, though, warmed up our new goat barn so well that our baby yak needed something to cool off with. We couldn't just let him out to the pasture (He has and will be locked in the goat barn for a number of days) due to his slowly decreasing need to run away, charge at, or jump up/over things, so Ï drug out one of our plastic pools, put it in the barn, and filled it a couple inches with water. He jumped in there, walked around in it, then drank quite a bit. After that, he would often go in and out of it for short bits.

In a short story, today was his first full day away from his previous life, and for the first several hours of the morning - He took it pretty bad. By noon, he calmed down but still grunted a lot (Yaks grunt, they don't moo) and afternoon I was able to touch, pet, and itch any part of his body without him being bothered. If I left him, he grunted a lot. A good sign.





Outside the goat barn, the goats were pretty good today. They didn't cause any trouble today, which is amazing! They have been the worst brats ever, and even killed one of our New Hampshire hens! The chickens have been fine since that incident, though. They're still finding ways out of their pasture, though. I blame the goats and my not finishing the chicken wiring. So, I finally fnished and fixed it all today. Hopefully tomorrow will be the first day in which not a single chicken will be found loose!




Oh, and of course - With the amazing sun today, I let the chicks in their brooder see the light of day by opening the building's doors, and let the sunlight shine right into their area. They had fun.



So, the day itself was one of those "This is the Life!" days, The sun made me just want to lay somewhere where it was warm and the animals were nearby, but instead I had plenty fun work to do. The only problems, honestly, were that Djimon skipped his last two bottlefeeding sessions, and he seems to have a serious case of rainrot.