Silly goats!

[SDGsoap&dairy]

We are brand new to goats (had them since January) and are still sort of ironing out some kinks. Here is a funny (?) example.

My Nigi/pygmy doe Shug LOVES to scratch her sides on our chain-link gate. She leans right into it and just goes to town. So all you goat folks are going to be thinking "why didn't she see THAT coming?" But, live and learn I guess.

So, I come home from work the other day and go to feed the does and see that the gate is WIDE OPEN! Of course I panic for about 3 seconds until I see both does standing INSIDE the pen looking at me like "where's dinner?" Here are these two critters with the WORST reputation possible about being escape artists and they didn't even try to leave with the gate wide open. Or, another (equally likely) possibility is that they cruised all 14 acres, waved at the neighbors, then ran back into the pen to look innocent when they heard my car coming up the drive.

When I inspected the (2nd hand) gate I noticed that the latches were apparently not tightened enough and the pressure had pivoted them on the gate. So the latches were still closed, but perpendicular to the fence. Needless to say, they were tightened immediately!

I love goats.

 

[annanicole18]

goodness you are lucky!! I have to fight with mine to get out my back gate and if they win...well lets just say some of my flowers suffered last year and my roses got a premature pruning.

 

[helmstead]

"What roses...we didn't see any roses, but that browse salad was to DIE for!"

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Thankfully I've been slow to get the arugula started this year!

 

[helmstead]

Thankfully I've been slow to get the arugula started this year!

Better wrap your garden in iron gates! They would break out like clockwork at our place in GA when the blackberries and lettuce were maturing...and the corn, oh the poor corn!

 

[kacie]

uh hey my goat oe just about 20 mins ago had a baby and we wernt there i found one that had frozen and died overnight and the other is alive but really whinney can u help?!?!

 

[RockyToggRanch]

uh hey my goat oe just about 20 mins ago had a baby and we wernt there i found one that had frozen and died overnight and the other is alive but really whinney can u help?!?!

Kacie, start a new post in the birthing section. I hope someone can help you there. Good luck.

 

[dianneS]

My goats never try to escape or wander when they have the opportunity to escape either.

If a gate is left open, they might take a few steps outside and look around, but then they go right back in! I'm really lucky.

We had snow deep enough that the goats could have just hopped the fence any time they wanted, but they didn't. Such good goats.

I need to build my goats a back scratcher/head scratcher so that they stop rubbing on my fence and barn. My one guy rubs his head on the barn until his horns are red like the barn siding!

 

[michickenwrangler]

We moved some kids away from their mom, we took the kids in first and forgot to latch the gate behind us. Mom, a Togg named Cleo, pushed it open with her nose and sauntered out after us like a dog going for a walk and followed her kids right into the new stall.

 

[Roll farms]

Puffy used to escape, and then scream and run to the gate to be let back in....Hello, McFly...if you don't want out, don't go out....