Silly goats!

[savingdogs]

Our goats can open a gate unless we put clip-latches on. They usually stay very near their pen, but they "pruned" my apple trees in a not-so-nice fashion so I make sure to latch it.
They have good vision and watched how we opened the gate and just did the same thing. Not silly....smart!

 

[cmjust0]

If the grass is greener on this side of the gate than the other, they'll be on this side.. If the grass is green enough within 10' of the wrong side of the gate that they can eat all day in that 10', they'll be in that 10' when you discover them.

I accidentally left a gate open once when I was working down in the barn. I'd been down there for hours when my wife comes over - pointing - and goes "Uh, the goats are all out there." I look over and sure enough, they're all going to town in this big shock of tall fescue that hadn't been mowed in a while....right next to the gate. They'd managed to mow down quite a bit of it, but one shake of a feed pan and they all came running back where they were supposed to be.

I should have known something was up, though, when I could actually swing a hammer in the barn without a goat sniffing the claw end as I drew back...like they usually try to do. :/

 

[DonnaBelle]

CM have you posted pictures of your goats?? Would love to see the little darlings.

DonnaBelle

 

[cmjust0]

A few, here and there.. I don't really have anything super recent, though.

You can actually check the whole place out at:

http://www.brownjellybeans.com

The site could stand a little updating, frankly. For instance...Eve still has a page, though she's passed away.

ETA: Not that I'd take Eve's page down, per se...but I need to update it to reflect her passing, how she passed, and what we did to save the rest. There are also a couple of goats in with the herd who were babies with up-in-the-air futures at the time when I wrote the site. They need pages, too.

At some point in the future, I think I'd also like to put sort of a 'how we do things' section on there. Feeding, general husbandry, meds and dosages we use, links to body condition scoring, stuff like that.

I also have a forum attached to the site, but there are only two users...and they're both me.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Nice site. You might also mention where you are located (or maybe you did and I just missed it...)

 

[Roll farms]

Nice goats, CM...LOVE Sevin and your new buck is a hottie....I'm a sucker for spots and solid colored ears and he has both.

 

[cmjust0]

Nice site. You might also mention where you are located (or maybe you did and I just missed it...)

We're in central KY, about a half-hour north of Lexington.

Nice goats, CM...LOVE Sevin and your new buck is a hottie....I'm a sucker for spots and solid colored ears and he has both.

Seven's a sweetheart, but kind of a weirdo. We love her anyway. She's due to kid in about...eight weeks? Something like that. Bred to Valentino.. She's starting to 'show' a little. Her mama's ears are frosty, but she somehow got solid black ears.. Tou just watch, though.. Betcha her kids are all frosty eared.

As for Valentino...he's something else entirely. He's been buck wild since the day we picked him up. His breeders had to literally run him down and catch him -- at 8 weeks -- just so we could get him home. He never really calmed down.

But, hey...at least he avoids you when you have to go into their pen, unlike our old buck 'Goat Boy' who demanded your sole attention, 100%, 24/7.


I really need to start fooling with our website again.. I wrote it about a year ago in a language called "Adobe Flex 3," just to sorta test the language out a little bit. I'd never used it before and needed a project...voila, our farm's website was born.

Oh, and uh..the farm name? That was temporary. I threw that out there one day during our "name this farm" sessions and we both laughed. Then came time to name the software project and that's the name I could remember. Everybody wants to call it 'Pepper Creek' though, instead of 'Peeper Creek'...old home place definitely needs a new name.

 

[Roll farms]

I may be looking for a solid-color-eared buck in a year....do you deliver???

 

[DonnaBelle]

Beautiful farm CM and lovely goats.

You are truly blessed, wife, goats, dogs, and you know how to do computers. I must have a "computer person" or I am lost.

Thank goodness for when my 13 yr old grandson visits, he gives me lessons. He's the one who helped me post pictures on here.

DonnaBelle

 

[cmjust0]

I may be looking for a solid-color-eared buck in a year....do you deliver???

If one's born within the next few months...and we still have him in a year...delivery will probably be free by then, along with the buck, just to get him down the road.