Queen Mum's Dancing in the Rain

[Queen Mum]

I let Mama and Brownie and the babies out today. They had a great time. Mama stays right with her babies. Brownie, eh. She waltzes off like the kids are barely there. If the kids give a holler, then she comes right back or calls them to her, but only if they are in trouble. Mama goes to the hay feeder grabs a bite and RUNS back to her kids, if the babies don't follow. Brownie walks clear across the paddock. The babies have to find her. This upsets Mama to no end. She gathers up Brownies babies and herds them over to Brownie then she pulls Brownie's butt hair reminding her to watch her kids. OR she keeps them with her kids. She also goes after any other goat that goes near the babies with 'evil' intent.

Mama is a great mama. She also lets Autumnprairie's babies climb on her when she is laying down. AND if the dog gets anywhere near those kids, she chases the dog away.

Jack and BJ had their collars removed and were using that to one up Trump Card and Houdini while sparring. SO yesterday I took off Houdini and Trump Card's collars. OOPS, BJ and Jack found out that the odds were even today. They are all lying around the yard today exhausted from sparring in even matched buck games today. No more collar hooking.

 

[Queen Mum]

Houdini Magic! I found it. I make a breakfast mix in the morning. It's a whole wheat cereal called Wheatena. I cook it up with some cane syrup, oatmeal and raisins. But today I wasn't as hugry and had some left over. OH MY GOODNESS. Houdini LOVES IT! He will sit in my lap for it and gaze into my eyes with love for some of it in rolled into a ball. He will fight off Ian, Jack and BJ all at once. It's Houdini Magic. I have his number. Now, if I can use it to get him to come to his name.

 

[elevan]

I'm sure he'll quickly learn to come to his name for some Houdini Magic.

 

[DonnaBelle]

OMG Queen Mum, you take the cake, Houdini is going to be beyond spoiled----he will be rotten to the core..LOL....a lot...

Oatmeal and raisins for that goat???

Hmmmm, wonder if Sissy would like some??

DonnaBelle

 

[Queen Mum]

Sissy would EAT IT UP. Whole wheat cereal cooked with a couple tablespoons or cane syrup, add rolled oats and raisins the last 3 or 4 minutes of cooking. What goat wouldn't love that!?

COOL for about an hour and until it is firm enough to roll into small balls. Feed it to Sissy. She will look up at you will adoring eyes and kiss you with her little baby lips afterwards.

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

Feed it to Sissy. She will look up at you will adoring eyes and kiss you with her little baby lips afterwards.

Going to try that with kisses. She has discovered the wonder of apples. She LOVES THOSE!

 

[Queen Mum]

I love my goats. Today I was trying to repair the water pipe that I put a t-post through. Ian was being VERY helpful. He was standing on my ankles. He was pulling wire out of my tool bag and handing it to me. (I didn't need wire, but he was sure I did.) He pulled out my pliers and dropped them on my butt. He stood on my back. When I told him to get off my back, instead he climbed on and then laid down. (I guess he misunderstood what I meant.) A 100 pound buck on my back wasn't quite what I had in mind. He put his head in the hole to inspect. Had to make sure I was doing in right. He crawled under my tummy and poked his head in between my arms at JUST THE RIGHT MOMENT. He stood on the cover for the water valve while I was trying to pull it up.

Pushing him away didn't seem to help much. When I did that, he would put his face right next to mine and ask for scratchies. If I said "NO scratchies!" he would snort a baby snort and ask why not with his "doe eyed" baby look. He has a very cute doe eyed baby look even though he has 14 inch long horns and a big stinky buck face. If Trump Card came over to inspect, he firmly knocked him flat and told him not to bother MOM while she was working. So Trump Card went around the other side of me and they got in a tussel for a few GLORIOUS minutes so I actually got some work done. Then Houdini came over and "helped". Sigh!

Bucks can be SO HELPFUL. They did run away - quite quickly when I turned on the water and my connection wasn't tight enough so water squirted everywhere. But they came right back when I turned off the water and "tasted it" to see if it was fit to drink. Then they had to splash in it to make mud pies.



I did finally get the compression fitting in there and it does work. I covered it with some bricks and other protective things to make sure the boys don't decide to do "further repairs" overnight.

 

[elevan]

Sounds like my calf! Hahahaha!


Don't ya just love compression fittings? They are so much easier to use.

 

[autumnprairie]

what no help from Jack and BJ

 

[Queen Mum]

No, BJ and Jack were too busy cleaning up the feed that got forgotten in the dish when Ian abandoned it to come over and help. Imagine that. Feed got abandoned for "Mommy".

I love those compression fittings. Slide them on, tighten them up. NO FOOLING AROUND TRYING TO MAKE THEM FIT! No detours, no broken parts to detour around, No bending pipes to get them on. YAY for compression fitttings!