kayla_sayswa
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I bought my first pair of of goats 2 months ago and we finally brought them home on Sunday - a doeling (8 weeks) and a wether (10 weeks - just banded recently). Due the heaving spring rains/snow our fencing was delayed so we weren't quite ready to let them out, so we put them in a safe pen inside our shed.
This afternoon my 12 year old daughter played with them after school, but left the door unlatched to the pen and the buckling escaped.
We noticed he was missing around 7:30pm - so it could've been a good 3 hours since he escaped - and we've searched everywhere. We only have two small outbuildings, so he's not there. We've walked through about 20 acres of woods that surround our property, talked to neighbors, posted on craigslist, and even sat in teh yard with the doeling bleating her heart out in hopes he would hear her.
Do you think he'll run alot or hunker down and hide tonight? Is there any hope? They are in a new home and were recently weaned...the buckling is more skittish, too. He does have an ear tag and a blue collar on him.
My daughter is devastated. She knows she made a terrible mistake. The wether is her 4H project and we waited so long to get these guys. It's just awful. I don't have the money to just go out and buy another one, either.
I just don't know what more I can do....
OH...I really didn't want this to be my first post here! We live in western wisconsin - about an hour east of St Paul, MN.
This afternoon my 12 year old daughter played with them after school, but left the door unlatched to the pen and the buckling escaped.
We noticed he was missing around 7:30pm - so it could've been a good 3 hours since he escaped - and we've searched everywhere. We only have two small outbuildings, so he's not there. We've walked through about 20 acres of woods that surround our property, talked to neighbors, posted on craigslist, and even sat in teh yard with the doeling bleating her heart out in hopes he would hear her.
Do you think he'll run alot or hunker down and hide tonight? Is there any hope? They are in a new home and were recently weaned...the buckling is more skittish, too. He does have an ear tag and a blue collar on him.
My daughter is devastated. She knows she made a terrible mistake. The wether is her 4H project and we waited so long to get these guys. It's just awful. I don't have the money to just go out and buy another one, either.
I just don't know what more I can do....
OH...I really didn't want this to be my first post here! We live in western wisconsin - about an hour east of St Paul, MN.