Bruce
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You think Joe taught him?
MELS. NEW ADVENTURES
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B&B Happy goats
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Lol...too late to stop him...he is allowed one hole.....and i have noticed the "strong willed", but he is supposed to be a decision maker and protect .....so he gets some space on that too....
But he may lighten up just a little when his jewels are taken care of wednesday ! , lol...
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B&B Happy goats
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Yepper...and we shall build him a ramp over it to get to the dog door
...it will be better for his and Missys hips as they get older to have a wide ramp anyhow...
Baymule
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Our Great Pyrenees make a backhoe look like a child's toy.
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B&B Happy goats
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He was pretty slick about it...never saw him doing it till we saw him in it...we now keep a brush outside the slider to get the sand out before he brings it all inside
Baymule
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We live on sugar sand. Fine, white sand that blows dust clouds in the dry summer and sticks to everything. Between us traipsing in and out, and the dogs, you could plant tomatoes in the floor. They'd die though, that sand ain't worth a durn for growing tomatoes.
Mike CHS
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We live on sugar sand. Fine, white sand that blows dust clouds in the dry summer and sticks to everything. Between us traipsing in and out, and the dogs, you could plant tomatoes in the floor. They'd die though, that sand ain't worth a durn for growing tomatoes.
I spent over 20 years in Pensacola and we had the same sand. I put about 4 tons of composted horse manure in to make a garden. Our rocky clay here is a pain but it is fertile.
Baymule
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We have piled on the chicken, sheep and horse manure. Plus trailer loads of pine shavings from a horse event center, then load after load of wood chip mulch. Layers of cardboard to smother out the weeds, for some reason I grow prize winning weeds. There is now a foot deep layer of rich, black soil with lots of humus. I got a feeling that this year we are gonna have a great garden.
Now, back to Mel!
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B&B Happy goats
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MEL was quite helpful this afternoon, ....i had decided to move Abby who is due tommrow, out of the area she was in with the chickens. She decided that her house wasn't where she wanted to be and got under the chicken hut (it is two feet off the ground) and crawls on her knees in and out of the chicken poo. I did rake and clean under it but there is no way she was going to kid there....nope...my issues for sure, but that is nasty .
So i let her out with the other goats and watched her, after twenty minutes the attitude came back....miss bossy witch returned ! So we decided she would be put into the new chicken house that hasn't been used yet as we need to do that part of the fence....after a half hour of trying to coax, corner, entice the witch we were loosing our battle of capture the big fat pregnat goat without making her run. I said go get Mel...Mel enters the goat area, Abby looks at him and
goes behind the chicken house and gets cornerd ...Mel sits there calmly while i put a leash on her and put her right where she is going to stay till she kids and they have a few days to bond.....good boy Mel 
....should of had him help right from the start ! 
So i let her out with the other goats and watched her, after twenty minutes the attitude came back....miss bossy witch returned ! So we decided she would be put into the new chicken house that hasn't been used yet as we need to do that part of the fence....after a half hour of trying to coax, corner, entice the witch we were loosing our battle of capture the big fat pregnat goat without making her run. I said go get Mel...Mel enters the goat area, Abby looks at him and
goes behind the chicken house and gets cornerd ...Mel sits there calmly while i put a leash on her and put her right where she is going to stay till she kids and they have a few days to bond.....good boy Mel ....should of had him help right from the start ! 
Good job Mel!
