We got our building for the new fawns finished this week. They did a great job on it.
I'm not digging the doors, but Cody went to pick it out and they gave him a great deal on the
frame and 2 beautiful french doors! They put in the frame, go to put the 2 beautiful french doors in and they don't even go with the frame! I guess that is why they gave him a great deal on it! The doors were for a sliding frame! I was so mad! I went with him to try to exchange them for the same type of doors just not for sliding doors and they didn't have any but just plain doors :( It will do though.
The fawns will even have doggy doors so we can let them out and nibble a little in the dirt on pretty days. Cody will have to build a fence around it first.
There are 8 compartments inside, 4 on each side and we will put about 3 fawns in each pen. We are only gonna bottle feed the babies we '
AI'ed this year and leave the rest with their mommas. Since there will be so many they will not be in the house this year!
The doggy door is the cutest.
We also had to work the deer again this weekend to give them the last of the vaccines they need for the year. Luckily, Drew came down from
Nacogdoches to help and brought his dad and a few friends. Which
meant I didn't have to help and almost die of a
heart attack! They started them Thursday night and Cody called about 8:20 and it was almost dark. He was a little frustrated because not everyone was there yet and he needed me to come hold a flashlight for them to finish the last 6. When I get there everyone finally showed up and started helping and the last 6 went by really fast. The last 12 we did we loaded in the trailer to unload in the high fence. These were the Doe's Jeff bought a few months back. We bred them to awesome bucks and then wanted to release them to get more good genes in the high fence. Usually when we release them, they fall from the chutes and then turn a corner and run straight to their pens. Well this time they had to drop from the chute and run forward about 10 feet and jump in a trailer. Well one decided to turn around when she reached the trailer and ran back to the working area where everyone was standing. At this point it is pitch black, except for the flashlight I am holding. Of course everyone said a few choice words and just plastered themselves to the wall
in case she started bouncing off the wall and going nuts. All I was thinking about was all the
medicine laying on our table and all the needles that would go flying everywhere if she went nuts. I guess since it was so dark she just stood there and we kind of
shooed her back out of "our" area! It was intense! The funniest thing about the whole incident was I kept my cool! Drew's friend was filling the needles for Cody and I was holding the flashlight for him. So when the doe came back towards us he kind of followed me where I ran. He then grabbed my arm and I was thinking, "that's sweet, he is trying to save me from this wild animal!" Instead he grabbed me and ducked behind me,
lol. I don't blame him, he had never been around deer before. I still get a mental picture of this and
literally laugh out loud each time!
They did half Thursday night and the rest Friday night. Thursday went pretty smooth except for that one and Friday went just as smooth except the second to last one. Since everyone showed up on time I didn't have to go help. When Cody walked through the door I could tell he was not a happy camper and he could barely talk.
Apparently, somehow, not sure, when the deer jumped in the chute, she jumped sideways and when they went to open the top to give her her vaccines her legs weren't hanging like they should have been. Instead they were up on the sides and she was laying on her side. Her back was against the boys stomach and they were trying hold her down and push her down in the chute. Well deer are strong little things and she pushed off the wall with her feet and went flying out of the chute! When her head came up she hit Cody's chin and he thought his jaw was broke for a minute. It's a little swollen today but he is fine and pretty dang tough. I wish I could have seen what that guy, who grabbed me, did when this happened,
lol!!!!!!!!! So now this is the second time a deer has gotten into our area and not a good thing. Cody said he just yelled to open the gate and he isn't sure who was brave enough to do that, but she went out into her lane and they just ran her back through. I might have had a heart attack if I was down there to see all that!
We tried to jump the fence across the street from us and take picture in the wheat field and it didn't work out the way we planned. I didn't want her to rip her shirt trying to jump over and I had the hardest time getting that dang gate open! I finally managed to get this 1800's wooden/barb wire gate open and it almost took my arm off with it! I have a huge bruise and scrapes, no bueno! Cody was out on the ranch and I thought I was gonna have to call Luis to come shut it back for us but after about 15 minutes of trying, sweating and out of breath, we finally managed to get it back up!
