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[Ravynscroft]

Happy Birthday, Wisher!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan maybe that person is going out of the goat business because his are too old to be of any use- just like some baddies selling old hens as great layers. Buyer beware.

 

[Wisher1000]

Thanks, all, for the birthday wishes. Y'all are awesome.

 

[drumstick diva]

Wisher - you ARE awesome and don't forget it.

 

[Latestarter]

Happy B-Day Wisher. Hope you and yours came through all that wicked weather unscathed. Was watching the weather channel last night when they reported possible rotation north of Dothan. No idea where you are, but I believe 1kluckychik & her family are somewhere not too far north of there.

Get rest Deb and get well.

3 does will fit in the space you indicated Al as long as they are allowed out to stretch every so often (like daily) and are not sequestered in there for long periods. Hope you get a nice group!

Sorry to all you folks who have crappy internet service... I could gloat, but after I move, I believe I'll probably be in the same boat (or worse) with y'all. If I get far enough back in the woods I may not have access at all...

 

[ronott1]

Happy B-Day Wisher. Hope you and yours came through all that wicked weather unscathed. Was watching the weather channel last night when they reported possible rotation north of Dothan. No idea where you are, but I believe 1kluckychik & her family are somewhere not too far north of there.

Get rest Deb and get well.

3 does will fit in the space you indicated Al as long as they are allowed out to stretch every so often (like daily) and are not sequestered in there for long periods. Hope you get a nice group!

Sorry to all you folks who have crappy internet service... I could gloat, but after I move, I believe I'll probably be in the same boat (or worse) with y'all. If I get far enough back in the woods I may not have access at all...

My connection is pretty good now:


They did something when they fixed the connection to fiber that was very helpful.

 

[1kluckychik]

Happy B-Day Wisher. Hope you and yours came through all that wicked weather unscathed. Was watching the weather channel last night when they reported possible rotation north of Dothan. No idea where you are, but I believe 1kluckychik & her family are somewhere not too far north of there. Get rest Deb and get well. 3 does will fit in the space you indicated Al as long as they are allowed out to stretch every so often (like daily) and are not sequestered in there for long periods. Hope you get a nice group! Sorry to all you folks who have crappy internet service... I could gloat, but after I move, I believe I'll probably be in the same boat (or worse) with y'all. If I get far enough back in the woods I may not have access at all...

We made it through fine. Cool of you to think of us though

 

[Alaskan]

3 does will fit in the space you indicated Al as long as they are allowed out to stretch every so often (like daily) and are not sequestered in there for long periods. Hope you get a nice group!

Thanks... hopefully we will manage to walk them back and forth every day to the veggie garden or the unused chicken run. If not though, they will have a much better setup as soon as we get some spring. The barn is on our old horse paddock. Not giant, but a really nice size. I wanna add a bit of a lean to on the side of the barn, about a 10 by 20, that will be roofed and three walled, so that they will always have that outside access even if we have loads of snow, and they can stand in shelter and look south and get some sun. The horses could trample the snow down...I am pretty sure the goats wont.

In the summer though, the two acre horse pasture will be theirs. That has a clump of spruce in the middle, and we used a chainsaw to cut a room into the spruce clump, so it acts as a shelter. The horses loved it. We would keep the horses in there until the water froze too fast, then move them up to the paddock. I am planning on the same with the goats.

It is just that the goats will only get about 1/3 of the barn for their run-in in the winter, but that is also why I want to add a lean-to for them. Oh, and the goats will not get the luxury digs until the weather helps us out.

@1kluckychik did you get any flooding at your place?

@drumstick diva yep, totally, but I think I asked all of the right questions.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Soooooooooo true!!!!

I found someone going out of the goat milk business... Each extra you take, is a bunch less money.

Luckily, they will only take cash.

Good luck, take lots of pictures, especially of the ride. I'll throw in 20$.



Got woken up about 2 am from what I swore had to have been an earthquake. About 5 minutes later there was a ton of lightening and more thunder. Isn't it February? Feels and sounds like June out there. We're not supposed to have thunderstorms in February.

 

[sourland]

Took them 3 hours to get from NJ to Maine.