Animal Trauma and It's SO HOT!

In this episode we are catching you up on the past 2 weeks because we've had some animal trauma and it's SO HOT!

Hi - We are Douglas and Keri! In May of 2022 we quit our jobs and sold our home in Denver, Colorado to move to our 36 acre off grid homestead property in Cochise County, Arizona. Follow along with us as we build our homestead from scratch!

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Well, we are officially in summer here in SE Arizona! We've had some animal issues over the last few weeks that we are sharing about in this video and it's also gotten very hot recently which is kind of throwing us off our game! We don't have A/C in our RV because it would mean running our gas generator constantly and we just are not willing to do that. SO, that means we are working around heat of 102-105' and honestly, we are not getting a lot done because it's just too hot to work in!

We had one of our baby turkeys that wandered into the dog/goat pen and the dogs maimed the turkey pretty badly a few weeks back. We decided to give it a chance and did not cull it immediately. The turkey had about a 4 inch square piece of skin missing from his/her back :( We used a skin replacement patch that Douglas had in his first aid kit and sprayed the wounds down really well with Vetericin and brought him/her into the bathroom for a few days. The first night we thought for sure it wouldn't make it, but it did! Well, that turkey big time REBOUNDED! He/she is now incorporated back in with the flock and is living normally again.

The other animal trauma we had was on Father's Day. We got up that morning to find only 2 of the 5 kittens outside the RV and they were not even in the enclosure anymore, but just wandering around the patio :( I (Keri) was extra sad because, well, KITTENS! So, we figured they got lost and died or were carried off by a bird of prey, or maybe a coyote. Anyhow, we bought the 2 remaining into the trailer to keep them safe with mama, Clara. 2 days later, I was cooking breakfast and saw a kitten dash by OUTSIDE...ya'll I was shocked! I went out to find one of the black kittens and he/she was PERFECTLY FINE! Not dehydrated or malnourished or anything. So, we realized mom must have relocated them because they had been climbing out of the enclosure a lot. We found the other two up near our storage sheds and they were also perfectly fine. We brought ALL of them in the RV for a day and then realized that we just need to let mama kitty do her job and put them all back out. They have been hanging out on the patio/garden area now and they are all doing great! Mom has been bringing them half dead mice every night and is teaching them to hunt...YES! At 5.5 weeks old, they are already learning to hunt...pretty amazing :)

I have been struggling with my migraine disorder the last few weeks...I have a rare form of migraine called Hemiplegic Migraine. It is a type of seizure migraine and when they get bad, it is awfully painful and usually take me down for a few days. I'm not exactly sure why they've gotten worse lately, but it is what it is and I just have to work around them.

Another interesting issue that has come up recently is wild fires...there were a few times that we thought we we may have to evacuate and that was stressful. If you are going to live out here and especially if you are going to raise animals, it's really important to have an evacuation plan and also make sure you know what your animals need during these hot days. We have found, of course, we are going through a ton more water and really checking the animals regularly to make sure they have shade and water. Stay cool everyone!

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