Ok so I know I haven't posted in a while but there hasn't been very many goat things happening. But I thought I would post anyways. So for the last few days I have been putting the goats outside all day because it is very warm So what I did was take their pen from the inside of the barn and just put it outside where they can eat grass and things. But the only problem is Rosie and Daphne.
Those two goats are babies I am just going to say it. They can't even be in the same area as Sally, we have had her for about 2 weeks now and they can't seem to like her. But they are getting more comfortable. So I now call it their little friendship ring... DON'T JUDGE! I am only 13 so I am still technically a kid. But yeah I call it their friendship ring. Which means they have to become friends.
I mean they aren't exactly friends but they are okay with being around her sort of.. Lets just say Rosie was being an all big brave mamma goat, and then she would cower behind Daphne. Sally is bigger and yeah she has horns, but so does Daphne. If you walk by the goats they want you it is crazy. But I think the truth is that Sally just wants to be their friend. Its just funny because she follows them and everything but they run away. So Rosie and Daphne are just punishing themselves XD.
But today has not been that bad they have been calm and I think since Sally is going to have her kids or kid soon I think that they haven't bothered each other at all. I think secretly Rosie like Sally she just can't admit to being friends with her. She always has been kinda a Ryan's goat I guess you would say instead of mamma's boy or daddy's girl. Well I think that will be all for today!
Sincerely,
Ryan
Friday, February 24, 2017
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Goat Trouble and a new goat family member.
Hello again! Ok so back to our little adventure.....
So after we had sold Fred we had kept Rosie and Daphne. They didn't really seem to notice that Fred was gone. But they had just did what they normally would do! They would sleep and snack above the barn and hide in little holes in the hay bales, they would graze go back up to the barn then come to the house, graze some more, get a drink or two, graze, sleep and eat, then they would eat their dinner. (Silage) We hadn't gotten either Rosie or Daphne bred but we thought that they were...... Lets not get into that...... It had gone a few months since Fred was sold. But one night after we had just finished watching a movie and we were all asleep. I had heard Heather trying to wake me up but school hadn't started yet it was a weekend. But then she said Daphne and I was wide awake. (0_0) If anybody ever says a name of my goats in a scared tone or worried tone. i am awake, alert, and I act all in charge. I am like a mother cow and when I hear that one of my "babies" is in harm or trouble I am right there to protect them or aid them.
You see what had happened was Heather woke me up and I ran outside to the barn. My dad was out there and Daphne was screaming her lungs out. She wouldn't let my dad get near her but she did let me. She was in extreme pain, and the next day we had a vet in there. She said that sometimes goats will need to lose their kidney stones, and that is what was happening to Daphne. We had gotten medicine for her and after a while she started to fee better and then she was ok all together.
And ever since then I have kept a close eye on Daphne. She is now more wanting, she will want me more often and if I am in the barn she will baaa for me.
So after New Years Eve, we had gotten another goat in February. My dad had found her in Lancaster Farmer, and he said that we should go look at her. When we got there we went into the barn and the guy had 2 goats. But we only picked out one. The next day we had gone to the Grantsville Stockyards to see if there were any other goats that might have been cheaper. But we had bought the other goat anyway. We took her home by sitting her on my lap, lets just say she was fat. But of course she was pregnant.
Well that is all for today, yes it was a short post but that is ok.
Sincerely Ryan.
So after we had sold Fred we had kept Rosie and Daphne. They didn't really seem to notice that Fred was gone. But they had just did what they normally would do! They would sleep and snack above the barn and hide in little holes in the hay bales, they would graze go back up to the barn then come to the house, graze some more, get a drink or two, graze, sleep and eat, then they would eat their dinner. (Silage) We hadn't gotten either Rosie or Daphne bred but we thought that they were...... Lets not get into that...... It had gone a few months since Fred was sold. But one night after we had just finished watching a movie and we were all asleep. I had heard Heather trying to wake me up but school hadn't started yet it was a weekend. But then she said Daphne and I was wide awake. (0_0) If anybody ever says a name of my goats in a scared tone or worried tone. i am awake, alert, and I act all in charge. I am like a mother cow and when I hear that one of my "babies" is in harm or trouble I am right there to protect them or aid them.
You see what had happened was Heather woke me up and I ran outside to the barn. My dad was out there and Daphne was screaming her lungs out. She wouldn't let my dad get near her but she did let me. She was in extreme pain, and the next day we had a vet in there. She said that sometimes goats will need to lose their kidney stones, and that is what was happening to Daphne. We had gotten medicine for her and after a while she started to fee better and then she was ok all together.
And ever since then I have kept a close eye on Daphne. She is now more wanting, she will want me more often and if I am in the barn she will baaa for me.
So after New Years Eve, we had gotten another goat in February. My dad had found her in Lancaster Farmer, and he said that we should go look at her. When we got there we went into the barn and the guy had 2 goats. But we only picked out one. The next day we had gone to the Grantsville Stockyards to see if there were any other goats that might have been cheaper. But we had bought the other goat anyway. We took her home by sitting her on my lap, lets just say she was fat. But of course she was pregnant.
Well that is all for today, yes it was a short post but that is ok.
Sincerely Ryan.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
I think I got the hang of it.....
Okay so remember that cliff hanger I put you on? If you don't that is okay, but it helps to know what is going on. Okay so to continue the story I had said that Rosie,Daphne, and Fred had moved out into the barn. Yes they did, they had moved out there and I had put them into a pen which the previous goats had been in. I had put boards, blocks, and just crazy things in there with them so they could play and jump around on top of the platforms.
I had enjoyed playing with them and watching them as they would jump around and boof each other. I especially enjoyed it when I would lay down then one of them or both! Would get on my back then I would stand up, and they would walk onto my shoulders. (They would even sometimes try and go to my head)
But soon the two little goats that were only 6 inches high had grow to be about a foot tall. It was then Summer time, and I had let them go outside to be free range. They had set up a little home above the barn, and then they would come down and eat silage in the evening when my dad and I fed. You would occasionally see the 3 goats in the yard grazing or laying and snoozing in the shade of trees or on the driveway. They had soon started to grow little nubs on their heads, and of course they would fight, its what siblings do right? They would fight each other then Fred would go after me and start head budding my legs. We soon got to the point where I was actually fighting him. I mean he could have been a pretty good guard goat.
And so since Rosie was still their momma she had protected them no matter what Even from our dog, Shakespeare. She would fluff up her fur and bow her head. She even charged him once and ran into his side. Luckily she does not have any horns. But it had come to be that Fred would have to go to someone else, since really what was going to do for us. Nothing! So at the Amish Auction we sold him, but since he was a pygmy and not fully grown into a buck yet, I only got $31 from him. But hey that is ok I was only 12, which I am 13......BUT anyway. That is the story to the end of where Fred is sold, we still have the other two but I am not going to say more.
Next time on Goats For Days ~static~static~~~~~~~
oops looks like the radio went down. Looks like you will have to wait till next time to hear what happens with Rosie and Daphne....
Sincerely
Ryan.
I had enjoyed playing with them and watching them as they would jump around and boof each other. I especially enjoyed it when I would lay down then one of them or both! Would get on my back then I would stand up, and they would walk onto my shoulders. (They would even sometimes try and go to my head)
But soon the two little goats that were only 6 inches high had grow to be about a foot tall. It was then Summer time, and I had let them go outside to be free range. They had set up a little home above the barn, and then they would come down and eat silage in the evening when my dad and I fed. You would occasionally see the 3 goats in the yard grazing or laying and snoozing in the shade of trees or on the driveway. They had soon started to grow little nubs on their heads, and of course they would fight, its what siblings do right? They would fight each other then Fred would go after me and start head budding my legs. We soon got to the point where I was actually fighting him. I mean he could have been a pretty good guard goat.
And so since Rosie was still their momma she had protected them no matter what Even from our dog, Shakespeare. She would fluff up her fur and bow her head. She even charged him once and ran into his side. Luckily she does not have any horns. But it had come to be that Fred would have to go to someone else, since really what was going to do for us. Nothing! So at the Amish Auction we sold him, but since he was a pygmy and not fully grown into a buck yet, I only got $31 from him. But hey that is ok I was only 12, which I am 13......BUT anyway. That is the story to the end of where Fred is sold, we still have the other two but I am not going to say more.
Next time on Goats For Days ~static~static~~~~~~~
oops looks like the radio went down. Looks like you will have to wait till next time to hear what happens with Rosie and Daphne....
Sincerely
Ryan.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Beginner Goat Farmer.
A couple of years ago (2) we had bought two billy goats. They were just little and still drinking milk. We had gotten them at the Amish Auction just up our drive way. I had begged my mom to get them and what do you know we did! We had always gotten some sort of animal from the auction. We have gotten two ponies, and a miniature donkey over the years.
But these goats were something new for us. I had to go home and wrap hay since it was summer, and once I was done I was aloud to go meet my new baby goats! I walked down from our machine shed and saw my sisters playing with them, I had then started to run. I got there and the goats stopped and looked at me then they ran over to me and started to hop on top of me and they started to jump around.
That night I had made a make shift pen for them and I went to bed. In the morning I got them out as soon as possible I first fed them though, THEN I played with them. Basically that is all I ever wanted to do. Okay lets now fast forward a bit.................And were back okay! The two little baby goats are no longer babies. They have since now grown up and live outside most of the time. I had made them small little pens out in the yard over the summer then they got to big so they just started to jump out and escape the pens that I had made. I soon had given up and just let them walk around the place. You would see the occasionally, then they would go back to what they were doing. They basically just did what they wanted, except eat from my mom's gardens.
In the fall we had sold them since they were to no use to us, but sooner than later we had gotten another goat in November. This time she was going to have babies. SO.... I might be boring you but bare with me it gets exciting. SO we waited like FOREVER it felt like, but really it was only 3 months. On February 12, 2016 we had 2 little kids running around the place. It was a late night and I was aloud to stay home from school. But the next day we had noticed that the momma goat (Rosie) was still acting like she was in labor, and she was. She had had another kid that night but sadly it was not alive. It had gotten caught and we did not know. But we still have 2 beutiful 6 inch tall baby goats. Their names were Fred and Daphne. They had lived in our basement for about 2 weeks since it was still winter and cold outside. But they had soon moved out into the barn.
I am sorry but that is all for today, cliff hangers I know right they are so annoying. But am leaving you on one. HAHAHA. Just joking they are not funny!
Sincerely Ryan.
But these goats were something new for us. I had to go home and wrap hay since it was summer, and once I was done I was aloud to go meet my new baby goats! I walked down from our machine shed and saw my sisters playing with them, I had then started to run. I got there and the goats stopped and looked at me then they ran over to me and started to hop on top of me and they started to jump around.
That night I had made a make shift pen for them and I went to bed. In the morning I got them out as soon as possible I first fed them though, THEN I played with them. Basically that is all I ever wanted to do. Okay lets now fast forward a bit.................And were back okay! The two little baby goats are no longer babies. They have since now grown up and live outside most of the time. I had made them small little pens out in the yard over the summer then they got to big so they just started to jump out and escape the pens that I had made. I soon had given up and just let them walk around the place. You would see the occasionally, then they would go back to what they were doing. They basically just did what they wanted, except eat from my mom's gardens.
In the fall we had sold them since they were to no use to us, but sooner than later we had gotten another goat in November. This time she was going to have babies. SO.... I might be boring you but bare with me it gets exciting. SO we waited like FOREVER it felt like, but really it was only 3 months. On February 12, 2016 we had 2 little kids running around the place. It was a late night and I was aloud to stay home from school. But the next day we had noticed that the momma goat (Rosie) was still acting like she was in labor, and she was. She had had another kid that night but sadly it was not alive. It had gotten caught and we did not know. But we still have 2 beutiful 6 inch tall baby goats. Their names were Fred and Daphne. They had lived in our basement for about 2 weeks since it was still winter and cold outside. But they had soon moved out into the barn.
I am sorry but that is all for today, cliff hangers I know right they are so annoying. But am leaving you on one. HAHAHA. Just joking they are not funny!
Sincerely Ryan.
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