Coffee anyone ?

[Mini Horses]

This morning we have HOT on the wire. We also had some testing, very loud yelps, lotta jumping - sometimes off, a couple through some broken posts...yeah a real fiasco!! Expected as much but, gotta get them taught. I'm getting a LOT of stinkeye!

But WHY would you even want to go elsewhere with this to eat?? Because you're GOATS!!!!!

They need to pass 200' of this...and leave it alone . All else is regular fence and posts. Damned goats.

 

[Blue Sky]

Hubbs finished the west pasture fence this a.m. Six months of weekends with little help from me (knees). The new grazing has not received the LGD Seal of Approval yet-
a dog is blocking the access. Hubbs is annoyed. I keep telling him they will use it.

 

[Blue Sky]

Oops.

 

[Mini Horses]

So he needs to walk the dog around the pasture

Obviously he's being a gate right now! Ya know it's frustrating for DH after all the weekends of work and a DOG has to approve it

gotta love a good LGD!

 

[Baymule]

Yep, walk the dog in the new pasture. Do a version of the Suburu commercials. Dog Tested. Dog Approved.

 

[Margali]

@Mini Horses The post you showed that you can get at Tractor Supply, etc don't work well for me. They breakoff the little step and snap in half. The step ins I get shipped from Premier1 are much better.

 

[Mini Horses]

Correct, Premier has way stronger temp posts. I can get a t-post at similar cost though, so will.

I rarely use just hotwire or just step ins. They were on hand from a few yrs ago and I wanted a fence to move them across the yard basically, with temporary fence on this  one side of 4. Of course, a few who are hot wire trained could mow that back yard if perm hot wire, t-posts. Goats do not do well with just hot wire. Oh, a couple will but, not the herd. I am running wire along inside of a couple pastures of new goat fence I've installed....several acres, so this stronger charger will be used!!

Strange that many far larger animals will respect a single strand of hot wire -- goats?? No, their mission is to find escape from most any fence it's a game to them -- greener on other side thing only a couple went thru, they jumped wrong way trying to get away from the sting...forward, not back.

Tomorrow will be better....they'll be more cautious.
And I'll close the gate once across the yard, not let them stay able to move one field to another otherwise, at will. . Animal fun.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. I pulled the tiny triplet yesterday evening. Her big brothers knocked her off the milk teat, she was hunched up and cold. I brought her in , wrapped her in a towel and heating pad, and got her toasty warm. She wouldn’t take a bottle, so I finally got 2 ounces down her through an eye dropper. I put her in the bathroom last night. First I dragged a big black water tub in the utility room, but she kept screaming and trying to jump out. So this morning I’ll go to Lufkin and buy a dog crate, milk supplies and baby diapers.

I raised 2 triplets in February 2021, born same night from different mothers. @Margali has Panda and Tiny grew to the same size as her sisters and is in the flock. Now I have this itty bitty ewe lamb. She has a full tummy now and is sleeping in my lap.

Carson was so excited last night. He licked her, nuzzled her and would have climbed in my lap too if he could. I haven’t let him in this morning.

I finished my first cup of coffee, want another cup, but don’t want to wake the baby.

@Mini Horses you have some gorgeous grass!

 

[SageHill]

Love the pics with her and Carson together head to head Carson's Girl

 

[Mini Horses]

Goats were so much better today...
Calmly trotted out when I opened their gate, headed to new ground as I walked over there. They were good enough I let them eat in backyard. Only heard 2 yips...most gave that line of fence a good 2' of space as they went by. One day I might actually put up a yard fence & gate across there.

Time to fix supper...I'm hungry.