MsDeb's Journal - Lookin Out My Back Door

[MsDeb]

I'm sorry, it's really not funny...

It wasn't at the time. How can creatures so darn cute also be so darn aggravating ?

 

[SA Farm]

It wasn't at the time. How can creatures so darn cute also be so darn aggravating ?

They have to be or no one would have them

 

[MsDeb]

They have to be or no one would have them

Sounds a lot like human kids.

 

[goatgurl]

glad I'm not the only one to get peed on so far this fall. as i was bent over to fix a gate i felt sprinkles on the back of my arm and my leg, looked beside me and said Oh Choco, what are you doing and all he did was rub his wet stinky beard on me. bucks are so gross! to bad most of us need them to get baby goats. the shed is looking good by the way

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Waiting for an update

 

[MsDeb]

Only two more small steps and the easy-to-assemble-anyone-can-do-it-yourself goat shed! (How many weeks has it been?) Seriously, we...and when I say "we" I mean "David"....have to get the latches on the doors and the thing that goes across the top of the tin roof. She's painted a beautiful sand and green. Yesterday we got two little stalls built. (As you can see from the pics they are just the right size for 16 month old grandbabies.) We left room for one more bigger stall for when Hazel becomes a giant goat. Last night we tiptoed across the yard out to the shed and then shined the flashlight in to see if they were using them. We could see Tripod and thought Hazel had been banished to a corner elsewhere until we realized she was cuddled up almost underneath Tripod. Then they had to come out to the fence to see why we were out.
I can't believe I haven't gotten a daylight pic since we painted, but we've been really busy. I also haven't gotten a pic of the buck shed, which I think is just adorable. We call it their man cave, of course.

 

[MsDeb]

And Finn update:
Finn and Rita have become the best of friends. If Finn is protecting us from a squirrel then Rita is running right along behind him. I'd like to hide out somewhere and watch what goes on between him and the girls when he's in the doe pen all day. I think he'd rather play with them than guard them. He likes the bucks but he wants to chase them away when they are grazing and get too close to the girl's pen. When we get home he's really happy to be out with the people. He's definitely more a pet but I don't care. He is alert to everything that happens in our yard. When our next door neighbors start shooting (they do a lot of target practice) wherever Finn is, he immediately comes and gets between us and the neighbors yard. At first I thought he was frightened. Then I finally realized what he was doing. Thankfully he has accepted that the bicycles are not a threat but I know he'd really love to chase them on down the road.

 

[goatgurl]

finn and rita, to cute! my emma thinks she is an lgd, all 14 pounds of her. she was fostered by a pair of Anatolians after i rescued her, she won't bark at people but raises heck out toward the woods but looks back to make sure Katie is there to back her up. rita told finn all about killer tree rats aaah squirrels, they are just trying to keep you safe, lol

 

[MsDeb]

Temp in the mid 40s. Damp but not quite drizzly. Sitting in our little shelter with the smoke blowing in our faces because the best view is always watching the goats. Hazel is yelling at us because we aren't letting her out with the people. Nothing says romance like an autumn campfire, just me and my honey, being serenaded by a little disgruntled Nubian.

 

[goatgurl]