Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

So, where'd you get that avatar pic? lol

I found it here . An article about Moroccan goats that climb trees.


One day, Caramel, my little half Nubian, half Alpine climbed the roof of his house which is a Swiss chalet style roof with cedar shingles and moss everywhere. (I nearly had a heart attack.) She was running up and down scaring me to death. She had to scale a ladder and a pile of wood to get up there. Once I coaxed her down, I moved both the ladder and the whole wood pile (about two cords). She also used to ride the other goats around the yard, and jump on the trampoline.

I told my previous landlord and very good friend, Scott. I also told him that goats could climb trees. He didn't believe that goats could climb trees. I showed him the picture.

 

[autumnprairie]

So, where'd you get that avatar pic? lol

I found it here . An article about Moroccan goats that climb trees.


One day, Caramel, my little half Nubian, half Alpine climbed the roof of his house which is a Swiss chalet style roof with cedar shingles and moss everywhere. (I nearly had a heart attack.) She was running up and down scaring me to death. She had to scale a ladder and a pile of wood to get up there. Once I coaxed her down, I moved both the ladder and the whole wood pile (about two cords). She also used to ride the other goats around the yard, and jump on the trampoline.

I told my previous landlord and very good friend, Scott. I also told him that goats could climb trees. He didn't believe that goats could climb trees. I showed him the picture.

Thank you, for the story and the arrticle. I really enjoyed it
mine try to climg the mulberry tree.

 

[77Herford]

So, where'd you get that avatar pic? lol

I found it here . An article about Moroccan goats that climb trees.


One day, Caramel, my little half Nubian, half Alpine climbed the roof of his house which is a Swiss chalet style roof with cedar shingles and moss everywhere. (I nearly had a heart attack.) She was running up and down scaring me to death. She had to scale a ladder and a pile of wood to get up there. Once I coaxed her down, I moved both the ladder and the whole wood pile (about two cords). She also used to ride the other goats around the yard, and jump on the trampoline.

I told my previous landlord and very good friend, Scott. I also told him that goats could climb trees. He didn't believe that goats could climb trees. I showed him the picture.

Man and all this time I thought it was fake. Crazy goats.

 

[Queen Mum]

When my kids, Flash Bangs and Trump Card were little, they climbed the maple trees in the back yard. My Landlord had a goat who used to climb trees and now his progeny climbs trees at the neighbors house. We have one goat who climbs fences and runs along the wood fence posts. Yes, goats are pretty nimble.

Houdini is always up on top of a pallet. Take a CLOSE look at this picture and you will see where his toes are. The pallet he is standing on is 5 feet in the air on a hillside with NO means to get up there other than just to jump straight up from the ground and he is only 14 inches high! He does it all the time.

 

[Queen Mum]

Houdini has been hard at work trying to find new and ever more clever ways in and out of his little paddock. Since the boys joined him, he's really getting creative. He LEAPS up on the pallet which is 5 feet high and sails over the fence into Snowflakes pen. He doesn't like it over there because it is MUD city. So he tries to sail over her fence.

Since that doesn't work, he's been trying to get out by sneaking out the gate to her paddock. Alas, it doesn't work. So he was lying in wait for me to come looking for him last night. Fortunately his collar has a bell and the minute he moved, the bell went 'jingle, jingle' and the jig was up. He was most disappointed. He ran up the pallet, sailed back into the paddock and laid on the milk stand ALL night sulking. This morning, I affixed a piece of flexible fencing over the pallet so he can't jump up there. He was none to happy.

On a sadder note, I went out to look over the goats in the lower paddock. About six or seven of them were missing. I thought maybe the landlord had moved them. HE had not. OMG, OMG, OMG, a sick feeling came over me and I went down to the internment area and there they were. When I went to Oklahoma, we had a hard freeze.

I have no idea how they all died but I suspect exposure. They had a barn but it has no hay in it and no insulation it's just a three sided corrugated enclosure. The goats were just not ready for winter. They just didn't have enough body fat to keep them warm. I sat down and cried and cried. I don't know what to do. I wasn't here. Was the cold too sudden? Is it that the landlord wasn't paying attention? Or is he being neglectful. I tried to tell him weeks ago that those goats were too thin. He's not feeding them enough. But some of the other goats are plenty fat enough.

I don't have enough money to leave tomorrow or I would pack my goats and leave. NOW.

 

[jodief100]

Those people are just ...... wrong! I wish you could take all their goats with you. It is such a horrible situation. I wish you could go now. How long till you can get out of there?

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

ohhh .. I hope you can move to your new home SOON!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[elevan]

Those people are just ...... wrong! I wish you could take all their goats with you. It is such a horrible situation. I wish you could go now. How long till you can get out of there?

x a million!

How very awful to find those poor goats like that!

 

[autumnprairie]

please turn them in so the rest of their goats get the care they need after you leave.

 

[Queen Mum]

I will do what I can.