Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

Today Sittin' Sally and Shakin' Shandy stood on the stand and gave me some more MILK. These are the babies mamas. They have been here since Christmas. It turns out one of them (Shakin' Shandy - because she was standing on the milk stand and shaking like a leaf) is drinking her own milk! I finally gave her some calcium and magnesium and now she's giving more milk and not taking her own. So today I got half a quart more.

Sittin' Sally (because she would sit on the milk bucket at first) is finally standing most of the time with hobbles. But she is only giving a liter of milk at a time.

I had to move the milk stand to outside the barn instead of the milk room. And I don't have to chase them all over the pen. Instead I just open the gate and they come outside of the pen to the milk stand on their own.

Making some progress.

 

[Queen Mum]

He finally did it! He got on my lap today. Well, OK, he only did it so he could get the food that I was holding way, way up high above his head, but he really had to climb up ON my lap to get the food and so he did it. He trusted me enough to get up there and get that food. And he stayed there for a long, long time, eating. And he let me touch him for a whole two seconds.

Now Jelly Bean is regularly eating right out of my hand and she was the first one to get on my lap to get the food.

Next I'm going to make it so they have to sit in my lap to eat. And then the next step is that they are going to have to tolerate me putting my hand on them to get the food.

Gradually, they will let me do other things too. BECAUSE I really need to trim hooves and brush them. And I want them to let me do that without them wanting to run away.

But today, them getting on my lap was a BIG step!

YAY!

 

[Mamaboid]

Yay!!Houdini

 

[elevan]

 

[Ms. Research]

Congratulations Queen Mum. I knew you could win him over.

Baby steps.

K

 

[jodief100]

I was a little disapointed, I thought we had Houdini babies.

Good for you, he is learning what a good life is like.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

I was a little disapointed, I thought we had Houdini babies.

Good for you, he is learning what a good life is like.

I was thinking the same thing. Word of advice. My goats are extremely friendly, but when it comes time to trimming hoves, they act like completely different goats and really do not want to be my friend.

 

[autumnprairie]

I was a little disapointed, I thought we had Houdini babies.

Good for you, he is learning what a good life is like.

I was thinking the same thing. Word of advice. My goats are extremely friendly, but when it comes time to trimming hoves, they act like completely different goats and really do not want to be my friend.

I always get help from someone when it comes to trims

 

[DonnaBelle]

Congratulations on training that goat!!

They are kinda like human kiddos though, you get better results if you start young and stay consistant. It is sooooooo much work to raise "kids".

DonnaBelle

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

YAH !! Train Houdini train houdini!