Straw Hat Kikos

[SDBoerGoats]

Awesome place for your goats! Tons of goodies to nibble on. IT has been HOT here, 105 today, and now it's looking like thunderstorms. Weather update says "dangerous storm" with 60 mph winds and quarter size hail, and to get your self and animals inside. Well, it may or may not hit us. Thunderstorms have a tendency to go around us, but we get them sometimes. We could sure use the rain, but not the winds and damaging hail!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

It was 102 today here and it is going to storm tonight too. Luckily we won't get real bad storms. It really is a great place for them. My bucks have the field fencing and it stays there. I think you can see a side of it in a picture. I will be making portable electric fence areas like this one and move them around after they have eaten most of the food. I has access to about 30 acres where I can do this so the should always have food. haha

 

[Symphony]

Those Does are going to love all those bushes and vines to eat.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Sorry. I have had NO time lately and still don't have any right now. I just wanted to share these pictures of Moses and others.

But yes, Moses has never been wormed.

Edited and pictures removed

 

[autumnprairie]

love the pictures thanks for sharing
on not having to worm

 

[marlowmanor]

Just caught up on your journal. Being without internet for a week and a half gets me behind! You should have some happy does with that new lot for them. My inlaws have a large wooded, weedy area that I told them if they fenced it in my goats would be in goat heaven and they coud get it all cleared. Looks like you've got some kudzoo in there too.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

This week was so much work and very tiring. As you know I spent all day last SAT and SUN doing the electric fence and moving the does out there. They have eaten about half of it already. Almost time to move it again. I also spent all this week, in the rain I might add, cleaning up the yard and fields, making sure it is all in order. NPIP also came out THUR to test all the chickens, geese, ducks, and turkeys. Now they all have their NPIP bands and we're all good there. Heidi is getting very close to her due date and now has a little bag. She looks so fat too. lol

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Just caught up on your journal. Being without internet for a week and a half gets me behind! You should have some happy does with that new lot for them. My inlaws have a large wooded, weedy area that I told them if they fenced it in my goats would be in goat heaven and they coud get it all cleared. Looks like you've got some kudzoo in there too.

Are they going to fence it in? idk if there is kudzoo in there or not. I do know that their are many, many thorn vines and the leaves from them are goats favorite!!

 

[marlowmanor]

Just caught up on your journal. Being without internet for a week and a half gets me behind! You should have some happy does with that new lot for them. My inlaws have a large wooded, weedy area that I told them if they fenced it in my goats would be in goat heaven and they coud get it all cleared. Looks like you've got some kudzoo in there too.

Are they going to fence it in? idk if there is kudzoo in there or not. I do know that their are many, many thorn vines and the leaves from them are goats favorite!!

It was talked about when we first got goats that the inlaws would fence off some of their brushy areas for the goats but it never got done. Now that FIL has a job in SC him and MIL are there during the week and only come back on weekends and not necessarily every weekend either. The area is mostly hillside but has tons of brush that I know the goats would love. We just need an inexpensive way to fence in the area so it is safe for the goats and keeps them confined.

I have a couple ideas in mind now but I have to figure out how they may or may not work and run them by DH and the inlaws.

My goats love the briar bushes that they can get to or that we cut down when we cut browse for them. They eat them like candy! We have tons of kudzoo over here and MIL was just saying this weekend when I mentioned that they should fence in someof their brushy areas that she would love to be able to unleash the goats on the kudzoo!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

A pretty cheap and easy way to make portable fencing is electric. You just spend some time training them to it and they don't want to touch it again. Your goats would be easy cuz they are pretty small. As long as you do T-posts on corners you can do those little plastic or medal round posts with 4 strands. It works good and is pretty inexpensive, easy to move, easy to put up. It's a win-win.