Oi, You Goat!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Today, when I went to put Chloe, Heidi and the doelings out in the dog cage, Chloe just decided she wasn't coming with me to get on her chain. She wouldn't budge when I tried to pull her on the lead. I tried to push her back and she still resisted coming. I even tried tempting her with a weed! I tried every other thing I could think of; then I called for Jocelyn.
I was answered by Eric, "What do you want?"
"I want Jocelyn!" I called back.
"She's holding Lucy!"
"Well, come and help me!" I told him.
He came running out to the field where I was and started to push Chloe toward the chain. Then he remembered when they won't budge, Jocelyn said to grab their ears and kind of tug them. Our goats hate having their ears touched, so this gets them going. We got her hooked to the chain and then Heidi. We got the doelings into the pen and started to walk toward the barn again to get Cowboy and Elessar to hook them in the back of the house on chains.
Eric calls to me as I come out of the house, "I need the blue lead!" I ask, "Why?" "I need it to get Eles!" (He calls him Eles) I run down to the barn and he says, "Here, give it to me and here is the orange one." I say, "Why can't you use that one?" "'Cause you need this one for Cowboy. It's stronger." I then say, " No it's not!" and so he hooks Elessar to the orange one and I get Cowboy.
Cowboy is a big, strong buckling. Elessar is too. He's a little fatter than Cowboy but he has the same strength. Cowboy won't go anywhere unless he sees Elessar or any other goat coming to, so we have to take them both at the same time. Elessar is the same way.
None of the goats like to be alone. They are companion animal; they don't want to be alone. They start bleating very loudly if they happen to be left in the stall while we take the others out. Eamena has the loudest, most annoying bleat ever! You can single her out when they are all crying.
We are still trying to get the buck pen finished so we can get the chickens and start on the doelings pen. Where the does/doelings are now, we are going to split into sections. If we need to have a kidding room for Heidi or Chloe, we'll be able to put one in one of the sections.
I am trying to find out all the information about rabbits I can. Mom found o a site that I'm going to be reading info on them from, but if you have any, I would like to hear it!
Rachel
Ps. I'm working on my template in a second! I'm going make the font bigger! And maybe change it to a different font... What do you think?
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by countrygalu
Sounds like a very interesting day. HandsnHearts has some info that I thought was very interesting.
Makayla
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - Hi
Posted by Chas
Your font is nice and large enough to not have to strain reading it. My favorite is the Comic Sans, I don't know why, but I choose it every time!
Your talk of your goats makes me so eager to get ours!! Even when they are being stubborn!
Have a great day!
Blessings,
Chas
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by SunflowerGirl
Hello! It's me SAMIAM! I have a blog here too! Come visit me sometime!
Love, Sami
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