I really hate to be the fly in the ointment, but aren't ya struggling a bit to accomodate the animals that ya already have?.....and a female waunderer is just going to behave long enough to get to her....and if she begins a heat cycle, what ya gonna do?....shut her up in the house for 2-3wks?....big dogs make large blood spots.....Gabbie is in heat now, so got some 1st hand on that. There really isn't a need to overburden yourself right now. Ya know I'll support your decision, but just wanted to give ya some things to think about....
So it turns out it was "variably cloudy" today after my burger and a Great Pyr, so I decided to go work off some fat working on the pens. Pounded some posts, wired up some cattle panels, cut some CP gates for the buck pen & hooked them up. Should have it finished up tomorrow, then buy some hay, and the boys and wannabee boys are going into lock down.
Moved the wheel barrow of tools and trash up under the car port, and let the dogs back out, Elf in the back yard, Mel in the goat pasture. Fed both dogs,and was getting ready to put out the bowls for the goat pellets when I heard this tearing sound... Part of moving the goat pen fencing was to clear an way to drop that big dead tree. That is no longer an issue... A big T-storm developed up to the north of me and the wind was coming in strong from the SE, which pushed the tree in the direction it wanted to go anyway, and it is now down inside the goat pen. It hit the wiring to the outside pasture light on its way down and broke the ground wire so I'm going to need to get the pwr co. out here to fix that.
As you can see, it destroyed a corner of a CP but all things considered, I'm pretty OK... it didn't hit any goats, and they were all in there waiting to be fed, didn't do any real serious damage, and now I only have to cut it and split it. It let go from the root ball, so looks like no digging that out either.
Of course the goats are pleased as punch as they now have a brand new toy to jump around on.