B&B Happy Goats....journal

[Bruce]

I have brought the two kids back to neighbor, ...she has now decided that she doesn't want to sell any kids...I told her I am not doing this anymore....I am done,
You can't let someone else's mental issues become your own.....

Dang, not even one whole day between sell and no sell!! It's a wonder you aren't crazy.

 

[Baymule]

Great. An animal hoarder neighbor. That's just what you needed. It's easy to feel sorry for the animals and "help" . Feel for you.

I rigged up a 2x4 for hanging rabbits from. I spaced nails about 4" apart and made string loops. I made two slip loops from the string and looped it over both of the rabbit's hind legs, hanging them up for skinning and gutting. A bucket placed underneath caught all the offal. I broke their neck with a hammer handle, then cut the head off after I got them hung up. I could hang 6 at a time, I got really fast. LOL

 

[Hens and Roos]

It makes me sick to see such nice goats live like they do.....doesn't cost a penny to clean a barn, or a water bucket....

I hear you about keeping things clean! We like clean water to drink so why wouldn't the animals!

 

[CntryBoy777]

That's so sad....but, it sounds like her family needs to have an animal "intervention" or something, but doing for others is okay, if ya got the time to spend....but, when ya got things to do for yourself....well, ya gotta focus on your "future"....

 

[Rammy]

Cant you alert the animal welfare people? Sounds like animal cruelty to me.

 

[Baymule]

Not cruelty in the breaking the law type of animal care. They have water, it's green, but they have water. They have shelter, not very clean, but shelter. The animals might not have the best of care, but they are not uncared for enough to warrant the law's intervention. It takes starving, bony, sick animals and scatter a few dead ones around, it makes for better TV ratings on the six o'clock news.

 

[Bruce]

I hear you about keeping things clean! We like clean water to drink so why wouldn't the animals!

Depends. If you are one of my chickens you prefer water in a mud puddle to clean water in the bowl.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Depends. If you are one of my chickens you prefer water in a mud puddle to clean water in the bowl.

true...our chickens do the same thing but at least they have a choice!

 

[greybeard]

I have brought the two kids back to neighbor, ...she has now decided that she doesn't want to sell any kids...I told her I am not doing this anymore....I am done,
You can't let someone else's mental issues become your own.....

She'll sell them readily enough when it begins costing her wallet hard enough, and when fly season begins and internal and external parasites make the animal's lives miserable and they start dropping dead from worm load. Of course, that also means YOU will probably have more parasites spilling across the line of all kinds as well, so hopefully she comes to her senses before it begins to affect your property and your livestock.

It is always imperative to pay attention to stocking rates per any given size property. Too many offspring retained means a LOT of unnecessary work, extra management and expense, not to mention health risks to the animals. She needs to learn the old adage of 'Cull hard and cull often'.

 

[Bruce]

Geez, you have to take care of everything and everyone! He sure is lucky if he rear ended at 60 MPH.