INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Chaos18]

One of the 1st things I did when kids got strong enough to get around good was to put a dog collar on them, with a strong "D" ring to snap a lead to, and grab hold of when need be. Got to fit snug enough so they can't hang a rear foot in it

Gotta have something for the kids to hold onto when they go for a ride.

Did somebody say goats!? Goats are great pets, they do not graze like sheep they eat woody stuff anything and everything so if you have landscaping you will need to fence it in!. My first goat was bought for it.s milk. My 2 month old son could not digest cow milk or baby formula. Her name was sally and she ate every weed in the yard, multiflora rose, pine trees, bark, leaves, poision ivy and any flower I had planted. I put her on a chain and she was fine in summer. Winter time she was free to roam, a creek runs around half of our 10 acres and the back half and north side was a fairly high hill and the hill was woods. She was like a bid dog with one horn. Husband was going to dehorn her but I did not want to take away her only defence against stray dogs coming into our neighborhood. I milked her twice a day and gave her peanutbutter crackers. I am not fond of Ohio's cold weather so I also milked her in the kitched by the back door. She sure cleaned up the poision ivy and to this day my son does not get the stuff, even when he cuts it down without gloves. I also had Angora goats for 10 years and fell in love with pigmy goats but gave them away, couldn't keep them off of the cars and they could squeeze through the smallest opening. Goats are good!

I have a mower to cut the grassy stuff. I want goats for everything else......mostly poison ivy because I'm apparently really allergic to it.

 

[crazycateye]

 

[Akrnaf2]

In my opinion that chick won't survive. Is that red stuff , blood?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I've had them knee deep in green grass, eating honeysuckle. Put up a 3-sided run-in shed where they can get in out of the weather and get a couple wethers, or does if you want young ones later on, & you're in business. You'll still need in a fenced area for them, but not the entire perimeter.

 

[BullChick]

So what's the answer?

It looks like an egg, silly! A really smooth, kinda glossy egg. Very good for painting on.

Thanks. Sounds like a quick way to a goat bbq.

LOL! You and Pens are sooo wrong!

I do?

Awwwww! I haven't been proposed to in...........(I am thinking) It was the two months that I was asked four times by three guys. And before you get the wrong idea, One was a friend, one was from my past, and one was just an idiot.

Yeah, you can leash them. You can even train them to pull a cart. If you have a specific area you want cleared, you can stake them out within reach of it; just make sure they can't get hung up or wrap the lead around something; sometimes they aren't bright enough to reverse direction. Don't ask me how I know.

Whites (you) also says that you need to put the chain through a stiff hose to keep the goat from getting twisted around anything.

Gotta have something for the kids to hold onto when they go for a ride.
I have a mower to cut the grassy stuff. I want goats for everything else......mostly poison ivy because I'm apparently really allergic to it.

Ha ha!

 

[crazycateye]

unfortunately, yes it is. I will say though, I feel certain this chick had piped internally

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: That's in the next chapter of Caprine Keeping 101; don't want to overwhelm Grasshopper with TMI all at once.

 

[crazycateye]

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I candle in lockdown, lol.

-Kathy

Same. It's more personal preference, but the majority of people would not agree. *shrug*

 

[Akrnaf2]

unfortunately, yes it is. I will say though, I feel certain this chick had piped internally

Thing happens, don't take it to hard, just lern from the experience