Meet Our New Goats!

[lupinfarm]

OH MY GOSH. Today was an interesting day. I was up bright and early at 7am to let the chickens out ready to get some things done before getting the goats with my mum. Kevin went to water the chickens and about half an hour later, I went to use the hose to fill the mini stock tank I got for the goats and realized Kevin had left the hose running the hole time... The coop was flooded, 4 inches of water on the floor and the chickens were wading through the Hurricane Chickenhouse aftermath!

Sigh, so not a great start to the day!

Anyway, The girls are home...

In the back is Hermione... She's a 6 month old doeling, she's rather shy and sticks pretty close to our nanny even though they aren't mother and daughter, I think she feels safe and looks up to the nanny.

Also, I think we need to rethink a name for Cotton, the older goat, because my dad would like to stick with the Harry Potter theme we have going on. So far we have used, Hermione, Luna, Ginny and Accio on the farm so those names are off limits! Any ideas?

And the whole set up, they are in a 12x12 chainlink dog run, I'm not finished boxing in the dog crate but It is out of entirely reused materials. The stump they have in there to play on I found by our lilac bush, and the tire is one of about 20 we found lurking in the thicket by the house.

Notice the AWESOME 15 gallon stock tank! How cute is that? It cost about $30.00 new.

While I was on my way back, we noticed a farmer was selling calf huts and we stopped in to see how much, he wanted $140 for the older ones, so we picked one up... Turns out they are enormous LOL, we plan to use it for a run-in shed for the goats when they are on full pasture. It has bucket holders inside, which we will use to hold pails of minerals, and we'll give them a little step ladder to use to get to it.

About an hour after the girls got to their new home, I gave them their CD/T shots which they took fine while munching on some grain They'll do anything for grain

 

[big brown horse]

Aren't they cute!!! (Sorry about the flood.)

I could use about 3 "calf huts" just like that one!! One for the chickens, one for the new ducks and one for the sheep...that thing is huge!!

 

[lupinfarm]

That thing took up my entire 5'5" truck bed! .. Its so huge the farmer we bought it off lifted it in with the bucket on his tractor!!

We were getting strange looks from cops all over town because we brought it with us to pick up the goats cause we were running late.

BTW, you get some strange looks when your goats bleat as you pass people on the street LOL

Maaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh..............

 

[big brown horse]

 

[freemotion]

Cutie-pies!

 

[dragonlaurel]

They are beautiful !

 

[justusnak]

Very cute goats!! What a score on the calf hut. Wow, I could use a few of those myself!!

 

[2dream]

I have goat envy. They are so cute.

You did a great job using all that recycled stuff. And I wish I would run across a couple of those huts. That was a great score.

And if cotton is a billy how about Prof. Dumbledore.

 

[lupinfarm]

Hahaha.. Cotton is indeed a girly goat, I think we've settled on Myrtle (as in Moaning Myrtle) because all she does is complain that she is stuck in that little pen and not out on pasture!

Unfortunately though, I haven't yet put up any fencing for them to be enclosed in and therefore they can't come out until I have (although they do come for grain)

Anyone have any suggestions for getting Hermione to be a little more personable? ... She hangs back, I try to get her to eat out of the bowl I'm holding when I'm in there so she has to make some contact.

 

[punkin]

Just precious!!