One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[Wehner Homestead]

So, exchanged emails with my new brother.
Interesting, we found out that we attended the same university and the time we were there overlapped.
He was there from 80-85 and I was there 83-88.
Small world.

That’s kind of crazy! I’m sure your paths crossed at some point...

 

[farmerjan]

Real life and truth are stranger than fiction.... I am very glad for you that it is turning out to be a good situation that you finally got to make the connection. Hopefully you can all get together, in person sometime, and be able to interact face to face. And then to be able to share in each others' lives, down the road. Maybe your brother would benefit from meeting him also and find a friend in him as well as a brother.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I can't believe this.
People just showed up at our house to get Blondie, Raven, and Pearle and the 7 kids.
They had a big cardboard box in the bed of the pickup truck to transport them 3 hours.
I got so mad at the man Maurine made me go back in the house.
He said, "well if you don't want to sell the goats we'll just get back home". I said "I don't want to sell the goats'/
He then asked me if I would sell one of the moms and babies.
Nope.

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

That's heartbreaking, OFA!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I wouldn’t have sold them either!!! If they are ignorant enough to show up to transport them in that manner, they’ll be clueless about their care!!!

 

[Mike CHS]

My wife has to deal with those kind of people since I have a very low tolerance of them.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's bad... I once had a guy ask me if he could come get a goat and just tie his legs together and haul him home in the back of his truck that way? Are you kidding me? I told him to put him in the cab of the truck with him or bring an approved carrier... knew I'd never hear back from him. Good thing too because he saved me having to cuss him out!

Glad you told them no!

 

[OneFineAcre]

After I went back in the house he told Maurine if they paid us and got home and all of the goats were dead it wasn't any skin off of our nose.
Maurine had been dealing with the girl, she was in her upper teens. The goats were for her.
We were told they had a trailer.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Good grief! I bet he just didn’t want to drag a trailer three hours down and back. I feel sorry for the daughter but not sorry enough to sell them goats!

“No skin off your nose” my rear end! I know you care about your goats more than that!!! Just because you can’t keep them all doesn’t mean that you’ll sell them to any Tom, Dick, or Harry that comes along with some cash!

 

[Southern by choice]

That is just awful! I can really picture you and how angry you had to be. Hope your blood pressure has come back down.
Really ticks me off, I can imagine how stressful it was for you and Maurine to go through that. Still really in shock that first they would do that and second the horrid response he gave.