Chickens really- My adventure into Goats

[chickens really]

Yesterday when I got home from town I went outside to play with my goats. Ozzy was resting up on the platform that my youngest Son built for them. He was excited to see me so tried launching off the top but his hoof got wedged between the wood planks. Thank God my youngest Son came outside as I was trying to hold Ozzy and trying to free his foot from the tight grip. He was bawling his head off. My Oldest Son came out and I'm yelling in a panic to help me. He ran into the little garage and got the sledgehammer. Quickly he got the plank busted and Ozzy free.
My Son sat with him till Ozzy was relaxed and not scared anymore. I'm so happy that Ozzy did not break his leg or injure himself in anyway. The platform is removed and taken apart. I honestly didn't think the planks were a danger and thought they were safe. I feel awful because it could of happened when I wasn't home to save him. My poor goat He would have broken his leg for sure.

 

[chickens really]

The dreaded platform and the sunset last night.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I had a similar thing happen to one of mine, and he did break his leg...it wasn't misaligned, so he bounced around and butted heads on 3 legs for a couple of months and got over it....he never slowed down at all....I was very careful about the spacing between boards from that point on....he'll be fine and back at it very quickly.....

 

[chickens really]

I had a similar thing happen to one of mine, and he did break his leg...it wasn't misaligned, so he bounced around and butted heads on 3 legs for a couple of months and got over it....he never slowed down at all....I was very careful about the spacing between boards from that point on....he'll be fine and back at it very quickly.....

I'm glad your goat recovered. Ozzy is perfectly fine as of last night. He was running and playing all evening without a limp.

 

[chickens really]

I'm hoping to make a gag gift for my sisters birthday. I'm just waiting for Levi to lose his sack. I'm going to tie a binder twine to the sack and make her a necklace ..I really hope she likes it! Bahahaha

 

[thistlebloom]

That will be a birthday gift to remember!
Hmmm... wonder what she'll dream up for your next birthday....

 

[chickens really]

That will be a birthday gift to remember!
Hmmm... wonder what she'll dream up for your next birthday....

She has given me some doozers over the years..
Nothing like what I have planned for her though! It's time for payback and I'm more creative than her..

 

[CntryBoy777]

Mom, way back before she married Dad, her family was sharecroppers that worked for his family....he had a younger sister that had lost her 2 front teeth in Dec and this was about the time the song became popular, and she ran around singing it all the time....so, Mom went to the slaughtering area....they butchered hogs in Nov....and she found a couple of hog teeth, put em in a box, wrapped it, and put the sister's name on it.....on that mornin', towarxs tbe end of Dec...my aunt opened it and began to cry while everybody laughed.... ...she never sang that song again........and people wonder why I'm so "bent", yep that "fruit and tree" thang....

 

[chickens really]

Hello..
Busy day yesterday. My husband and I ran to town, he needed a new staple hammer. Didn't get one but bought a new mat for the front porch. Soon we are redoing the wood on the porch so I or anyone else isn't falling again.
Oh my goodness! I just looked at myself in the mirror and my hair looks like Lyle Lovetts Curly hair and humidity don't go well together.

Anyways-My Husband got all my goat pens cleaned. Poor man hauled approximately 15 wheelbarrow loads up to the ashhole/burning pile. Very much in need of feeders for less wasting of hay. Probably lost 8 bales to waste. I hope Kupid picks through the pile and salvages the good hay . Levi and Pearl were so excited with fresh clean pine shavings. They were running in an out of the Shed, bucking and chasing each other. ❤
Fancy is in heat and very much in love with Ozzy. She pees for Levi next to the fence. He has no interest at all.
Today if it isn't raining as usual my youngest Son is building another platform for the big goats. I just noticed yesterday we need to do some modifications to the divider fence separating the four goats from each other. part of the fence definitely needs to be higher or Fancy will be jumping out as usual. Plus more lattice along the top of the chicken run. Darn goat needs a pen like Fort Knox! I have an old bench in the young goats yard that my husband seen in a bush along the road. Was great for my chickens to Roost on. Today getting a piece of plywood screwed over the seat so no one gets a hoof caught. ❤
Possibly going to be building a hay manger too if my Son is up to that task? He definitely isn't a carpenter by no means.
Going to town later today so I hope the rest of my alphabets are in

That's enough yapping for now..

 

[chickens really]

Hey, guess what ? We are going to try using a pallet with field fence tacked onto it as a less waste hay feeder for Fancy and Ozzy. I'll let you know if it works. If it does all my problems will be solved in that department..