Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[TAH]

Sorry, you have been having a hard time!

Sam, have you tried putting a halter on may? My mini Nubian was a brat to the other goats (he has horns and he knows how to use them) but after I haltered him and did some training he turned into a totally different goat.

 

[babsbag]

What a brat, I think she would be gone. I have about 30 Alpines and none of them are like that so I don't think I would blame it on the breed. The meanest goat in my herd is a LaMancha.

Hope things get a easier for you...winters are always tough...Spring is on the way.

 

[samssimonsays]

She wont tolerate a halter. It stresses her out. She is the only one who tries to get in top of things and tries to get out of things as well. She doesn't handle change well at all. The first four months we had her her eyes were bulging and you could see the white from her straining them and being stressed along with her tail was flagged so hard it was on her back. She also snorted a lot. She mellowed out a ton but I actually had to use a branch and slap her with it to get her to! she must be backwards like the rest of the animals I get..... She would head butt the dogs and chase them down ripping their for out growling and making aweful noises. Totally unprovoked at that.

Last night my husband thought something was wrong because she was yelling but really quick loud ones. She hasn't settled down since we took split the herd up but I can't trust her in the barn with the rest so that's how it will be until Saturday or tomorrow. Turns out half the roof of the main shelter did get blown off. It is still fully covered it just has about an inch exposed on the one wall. Since they were such butts about being in the barn they have to deal with it until I can fix it. I didn't see it until 9:30 last night when I got home from work and needed to sleep.

 

[Bruce]

I think she needs some Valium.

 

[samssimonsays]

Yep. She does. She very well could be headed out the door. We will see. I dint want a goat destroying everything and starting this spring once we remodel the barn she will have a door from the back of the barn leading into a pen into the barn and I don't want her destroying everything and getting into the grain and everything else.....

 

[Latestarter]

I dunno... I've heard that goat curry is rather tasty...

 

[samssimonsays]

We do like us some goat hahaha!

I will be talking to my husband about it and see. And then I will offer her back to the lady she came from. She was not like this there. She was calm and mellow and I'm the middle of the herd. She may just be a large herd kind of goat and when she came my herd didn't have a real distinct queen because my two, tilda and scarlet, we're too laid back about it to work it out so they were just kinda.... Both at the top position? I don't know. It was weird lol.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Good luck, hope you get is figure out so all are happy again!

 

[samssimonsays]

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Good luck, hope you get is figure out so all are happy again!

Hanks! I feel bummed out that this is the second Alpine that hasn't worked out the greatest.... I won't make a solid decision until snow is gone and she should be bored which also sucks. But I just don't want to stress with her anymore.

 

[NH homesteader]

She and my Nigie need to go live together in spaz-town, lol. Maybe she's telling you to focus on your nubians