Well fed goats are very fussy with their feed, it has been wet and very cold here over the past few days, mine will not eat wet feed, but go for any thing dry, including hay of any kind.
The biggest downer with goats, in my experience, is that you need really good fences, or an electric fence. Goats are quiet intelligent and if they want to go somewhere they will find a way. Once they know about electric fences they will not go near it even if it is turned off.
Yeah Jill their mother did a great job cleaning them up, I will get a pic of all three. They are up and running riot in the yard this afternoon which is great because we had to do some work to get the breathing, but all is fine. They were born un their sacks and she went down with them but all...
Frick and Frac were born today at about noon our time, a little messy as Jill needed help, maybe photos tomorrow, in the meantime how has Rocket and Sprocket grown; they do pick some funny placed to sleep though
I put this post on facebook as well got responses from Philippines, Japan, and OZ truly world wide I call and the winner is Rocket and Sprocket, somehow it is stuck in my head all day. The winner wins a candy bar but they need to come to OZ to collect it.
Australian wild goats, Mary has those bells so she must have some sanan(Spelling) in her along with a bit of cashmere. I traded some chooks for a couple of eating goats a few years ago, Mary was heavy in kid when she arrived so we kept her. I look at it like this this:-
If you give a person a...
Mary had twins today while I was away between 2 – 3 pm, a boy and a girl, any suggestions on names before the girls find out they have arrived.
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Jack comes for a scratch to tell me about the kids: He needs to wash his face-
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Waiting For Kids
Thought I was going to get kids today, my old girl, Mary, was off her food this-morning and showed an itchy udder, which is full of milk. She also isolated herself from the rest of my little flock. Actually sought out my company and allowed me to feel her for movement, this is...