Dooley- Living like a pioneer!

[Denim Deb]

It could have been much worse! Every so once in awhile, someone will leave a gate opened at the farm, or the horses will bust thru the fences. (After all, the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. ) Then we have to round up horses and clean up the mess they make if they get in the barn, plus watch them for colic if they've gotten into the feed. One time, a visitor to the farm left a side gate opened to the field where my horses are-they cut thru "my" field to the house, this was a gate near the house. All of "my" horses (mine plus the ones I care for for RU) ended up at a neighbors house. We had to get a trailer to bring them all home.

 

[FarmerChick]

Goat Explosion


yup had it happen also!

as I get older, I come back to the house and say to myself all the time---did I lock that gate? did I lock that other gate back?
drives me crazy!

 

[Javamama]

Goat explosion is the perfect term! Oh my goodness they can make messes.

 

[ksalvagno]

I've had that happen too. Not to the damage extent that you had but berries everywhere. When the alpacas have gotten loose, they aren't as destructive. More interested in eating the hay and just hanging out in a new area. Always seems to happen when I've been in a hurry and not totally paying attention. All you can do is laugh and clean up. I have no one but myself to blame.

 

[Denim Deb]

RU is away, and I had to feed all of the horses today. I ALMOST forgot to close a gate. When I was getting ready to leave, I asked myself if I had closed it, so I went back to check it. It was shut, but not fastened! I would have had 2 horses and 5 donkeys out if I hadn't gone back.

 

[Dooley]

When I was a kid we came home from a Sunday out of town, sub-zero weather (many, many degrees below zero!) and found that one of the goats had opened the faucet full blast. There were several inches of water, freezing, throughout the barn and the horse had broken a stall wall down and she and the calf and and the goats were all huddled on a tiny patch of floor that was not under water.

We shoveled water for hours, then put scraps of boards in the remaining water to create a non-slip path since it would be there until spring, and coated the top with ashes from the stove just before it completely froze. It was there for months!

Dad built a box over the faucet that you had to stick your arm into to turn on the water. That was fun in the summer, with my pathological fear of spiders!

Good thing the faucet our barn doesn't work...

 

[Dooley]

Hehe, 'nother interesting day!

Was eating lunch (sandwiches with homemade saurkraut... ) when I just so happened to look out the window... To see a cow standing in the driveway.

So, I left my delicious, delicious lunch and took the dog to round up the cattle. Turns out, the fence is down, so they can essentially go wherever they want now. Yes, that is the PRESENT tense, the electric wire is snowed over, so it's completely shorted. Nothing more we can do.

Then, having retrieved said cattle, I heard some strange noises coming from the barn celler...

Bok bok booook... Chicken party! :bun

Three hens had, apparently, decided the barn cellar was more fun than their coop, so they took up residence there (they had spent the night in there). Sent the puppy in to gather them up, and discovered that chickens really do not herd very well.

Twenty minutes later, chickens are back in the coop and I finally get to eat my precious sandwiches.

Two hours later, I'm back to herding cattle. We had to send a steer into the butcher, so the next hour was dedicated to splitting the wily little rascal away from the herd. I got charged head on by that steer. You know that look in an animal's eyes when it wants to kill you? Yeaaaah...

Good thing I had the dog with me, or I would have been toast. Sent puppy ahead to teach that bugger a lesson...

Hehe... Eat this, Burger! I'll be eatin' you tomorrow!

 

[BarredBuff]

I really do not miss cattle at all. I have had them semi trample me. We have fixed elecltric fence in the rain. I have had manure in my mouth. On my hand. In my hair. On my ear. Thats why chickens are my favorite farm animals

 

[Dooley]

I really do not miss cattle at all. I have had them semi trample me. We have fixed elecltric fence in the rain. I have had manure in my mouth. On my hand. In my hair. On my ear. Thats why chickens are my favorite farm animals

Hehe, chickens are awesome! Just as long as you don't walk underneath the perch at night...

 

[BarredBuff]

I really do not miss cattle at all. I have had them semi trample me. We have fixed elecltric fence in the rain. I have had manure in my mouth. On my hand. In my hair. On my ear. Thats why chickens are my favorite farm animals

Hehe, chickens are awesome! Just as long as you don't walk underneath the perch at night...

Ducks are awesome as long as you dont stand behind them after they've ate! Its bad.....trust me