Don't be afraid! LOL! She's a little much, really. I've had a total of 28 goats so far and nobody has ever been able to fly like her. My fat Boer/Savanna girl has managed to power herself over the fence with Daisy but she sort of falls over the top of it. I watched her contemplating a leap just this afternoon and she thought better of it. She's REALLY pregnant, due Thursday in fact. She tried the other day and barely made it over. I don't think it felt too good because she hasn't tried again. Hopefully this was enough to break her.
You know, now that I'm really thinking about it, my pygmies were my escape artists. I had two bucks, a doe and several kids for a couple years. I ultimately gave away the boys to be weed eaters. I had finally resorted to keeping them in my horse stalls and when they couldn't find a way out, they bashed and bashed and bashed until they knocked the doors off the hinges or broke the screws holding on the latches! Small but mighty!!
What I've learned from all my goaties is that they learn from each other! If you don't want a whole herd of fence jumpers, get rid of the one that figures it out. Once the others see it, they try it. One of my doelings started trying to leap out with Daisy this summer and she ended up hanging in the fence, all four legs tangled up. We got her out quick and she was ok, but she gave up trying after that. Thank goodness. I'm hoping that Daisy will give it up when she's good and pregnant and has a big ol' udder.
I also had to make a sacrafice to keep peace in the herd. One of my first does was beautiful and an excellent mother. She produced large, adorable, healthy kids, yadda yadda. But she was a bully to the other goats. They are born competitive but she was down right mean to the other girls and kids. She almost killed Mette and gored one of the other girls as well as traumatizing all the kids. I couldn't believe the difference in the herd after I got rid of her. EVERYONE got to sleep in the shed at night, feeding time was calmer, just everything was calmer.
The two here that probably do the least to draw attention to themselves are a Nubian/Myotonic doe and her half Boer daughter. They're easy going, friendly, generally calm and pretty. I'd have more Nubian breeding in my herd if I wasn't shooting for more muscle mass. They just aren't meaty! But both those girls are absolute pets, so I've bred them to my new Boer/Savanna buck so they can earn their keep while they get their cheek massages and goodies twice a day. LOL!
For the rest of the folks on the list who came here to talk CHICKENS
... I'll continue this conversation in PM form. Sorry guys. I wasn't trying to hijack the forum.
You know, now that I'm really thinking about it, my pygmies were my escape artists. I had two bucks, a doe and several kids for a couple years. I ultimately gave away the boys to be weed eaters. I had finally resorted to keeping them in my horse stalls and when they couldn't find a way out, they bashed and bashed and bashed until they knocked the doors off the hinges or broke the screws holding on the latches! Small but mighty!!
What I've learned from all my goaties is that they learn from each other! If you don't want a whole herd of fence jumpers, get rid of the one that figures it out. Once the others see it, they try it. One of my doelings started trying to leap out with Daisy this summer and she ended up hanging in the fence, all four legs tangled up. We got her out quick and she was ok, but she gave up trying after that. Thank goodness. I'm hoping that Daisy will give it up when she's good and pregnant and has a big ol' udder.
I also had to make a sacrafice to keep peace in the herd. One of my first does was beautiful and an excellent mother. She produced large, adorable, healthy kids, yadda yadda. But she was a bully to the other goats. They are born competitive but she was down right mean to the other girls and kids. She almost killed Mette and gored one of the other girls as well as traumatizing all the kids. I couldn't believe the difference in the herd after I got rid of her. EVERYONE got to sleep in the shed at night, feeding time was calmer, just everything was calmer.
The two here that probably do the least to draw attention to themselves are a Nubian/Myotonic doe and her half Boer daughter. They're easy going, friendly, generally calm and pretty. I'd have more Nubian breeding in my herd if I wasn't shooting for more muscle mass. They just aren't meaty! But both those girls are absolute pets, so I've bred them to my new Boer/Savanna buck so they can earn their keep while they get their cheek massages and goodies twice a day. LOL!
For the rest of the folks on the list who came here to talk CHICKENS
