Goats. ..

Get ready to have fun. Goats are very smart. Very, very smart and they like humans a ton.

I hope he's going to install a heavy metal grate over that window because one of them will bust it out. Their curiosity knows no bounds and an unprotected window would be a perfect curiosity point.

After my old horse had to be put down his companion goat went to live with my vet. She lived in an old farm house, the kind with a dirt basement you accessed from outside. Seems Billie, the goat, got the door open and let himself and a heifer in to the basement area. That area only had enough room for someone to work on the furnace and hot water heater. So they got stuck. When she got home she found both of them in the basement with all of the AC ducting torn out.

Before he went to live with her he broke in to my feed room, never figured out how. Got the feed bin open and ate until he made himself sick. Had a belly ache that just went on and on and he cried about it the entire time.

That animal was a hoot. And I knew every time he got out of the pasture because Max, my horse, would start hollering.

 

They are going to grab your heart from the get go. They want to know about everything you're doing. Mine would get jealous if I brushed Max too long and would head butt me in the behind so I'd brush him.

 

Lucky you and Bill!!!I had a billy goat and we would wrestle each other to the ground.I usually won because I was 3x's bigger but he usually started it by sneaking up on me from behind.He was fun.If you have trees you like,protect them.Mine took off all the low branches of my pine trees.They are excellent for cleaning up vegetation like out of control blackberry patches that other animals won't touch.They go for head high or higher stuff,usually ignoring the ground vegetation.I'm seriously thinking about 3 Nubian goats for myself.They produce a really creamy milk,they can carry packs and pull a cart.I still have to convince Dale...

 

CQ, you reminded me about the vegetation clean up. It was amazing how much he accomplished. The one thing I learned years later though, if they are not raised where that kind of forage is part of everyday fodder chances are you won't get them to eat it.

 

Mini goats are cute,almost like a dog and they are lap size.I read most people bottle feed the babies so they don't get a disease(?),at least that's what I remembered.Bill needs to get his goats and bottle feed them and bond with them.Then he'd be Mama Goat.LOL

 

Put a lock on that door if that's where feed is going. Mine should never have been able to get in my feed room but he did.

 

And are you going to help him figure out a fix if it ends up just a tad tight in there?

 

LOL I get the sense you're staying far far away from this. If that's true, once those babies are there you'll be hooked.