Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[Dace]

Nosy me had to go check it out....wow harsh crowd over there no wonder everyone prefers this crowd!

Way to call him/her out while still being adorable OFG.....thas our girl!

BTW...people are stupid.

 

[lorihadams]

Good grief.....people are so ridiculous.

Glad we have this site as a refuge!

It is ridiculously hot here today too....Hubby left all the eggs in the coop while I was gone all weekend and I found my light brahma hen sitting on 14 infertile eggs and pecking at me like crazy when I tried to steal them from her.

Everyone here is molting too....none of my ducks are laying and one of my hens looks like she survived a nuclear explosion. Poor thing...I put her in some cool water yesterday to help cool her off....she just looks so pitiful.

Our goat lady does breeding at her place for $50 per goat and she asks that you bring hay/feed so they get what they are used to. She has isolation pens too.

We all just need to get together and get Blackbird some land so he can be our resident goat man!

 

[Javamama]

I vote that BB lives in Ohio!

 

[freemotion]

I'd like to put him right next to me but land prices are out of control here!

 

[kcsunshine]

Okay, I got this thing all figured out. We make BB a traveling goat man - OMG, we used to have a man come up through Tennessee called the Goat Man. He traveled with his goats pulling a wagon with all his worldly possessions - never bathed. People would drive for miles to see him. He would set up camp in a field and start preaching.

BB, we don't want you to be like that - I was just talking about you travelling between all these goat owners, staying awhile with each one and you could earn your keep by helping them with their goats. (Sorry I don't have any or I could be your first customer.)

 

[Blackbird]

I like that idea Lori!

I looked at land up north and I could actually afford a couple acres with no buildings from what I have saved up. but living in this apartment is draining everything off!

 

[Blackbird]

Everyone always gives me outrageous ideas, so I must ask. Would you do that? Lol.

 

[kcsunshine]

Here's the words to The Goat Man song by Chuck Brodsky, just so you'll know I'm not making this up.

The Goat Man

Traffic would get backed up
When the Goat Man came around
And the tv cameras picked him up
Some miles out of town
In his tattered, sooty overalls
And his greasy railroad cap
Going no place in particular
With a wagon full of scrap

Ches McCartney was a farmer
When the Depression hit
He had some land in Iowa
Till the bank foreclosed on it
So he took to cutting timber
For the WPA
Till a mighty tall tree fell on him
And crushed his arm one day

They found him underneath it
They thought he'd met his maker
Till he woke up in the funeral home
And that shocked the undertaker
The big tree left him crippled
But he swore one thing for certain
That he would never sign up for the dole
He would never be a burden

Some folks might've quit right then
After all that had occurred
But Ches still had his Bible
And he still had his herd
So he built a couple of wagons
And he hitched em to his goats
And they all just set out walking
Down the old two lane roads

North they'd go in springtime
South when it got cold
The Goat Man kept on walking
Till he was 85 years old
All through the Carolinas
Virginia & DC
Georgia & Alabama
All across Tennessee

It was every year, or just about
That the Goat Man came around
Camped a couple of nights in somebody's field
On the outskirts of a town
The people would flock to see him
Afraid there was a fire
Cause he made alot of black smoke
Burning little scraps of tires

Yeah, the people would flock to see him
And then he'd have em collared
Sell em postcards for a quarter
3 of em for a dollar
You'd laugh about it later
Down the road a couple miles
How he took you for a quarter
But he left you with a smile

The Goat Man preached the Gospel
But he changed a couple of words
He was the cussingest preacher
Anybody'd ever heard
And if you needed preaching
Come Sunday 4 o'clock
The Goat Man gave a sermon
Whether anybody was there or not

The things most people slave for
The Goat Man he rejected
It was for the good of others
All the money he collected
He didn't have much use for it
Himself, he used to say
He walked a hundred thousand miles
Giving all of it away

The Goat Man had a bushy beard
With bits of food stuck to it
If you had some fat to chew
He'd sit with you and chew it
He didn't bathe for all those years
You wouldn't just not notice
You might even catch a whiff of it
Looking at some old Goat Man photos

Now the Goat Man had a favorite goat
It's name it was Old Bill
For 30 years they walked together
Up & down the hills
Old Bill got to stop pulling
He earned his right to ride
His last days in the wagon
While the Goat Man walked beside him

The roads all got too crowded
And the cars all got too fast
The Goat Man parked his wagon
And he put his goats to pasture
It was somewhere down near Macon
In a nursing home
Where he found himself a sweetheart
They say he might've worn cologne.

 

[AL]

I just read along here to learn and laugh... but I got the beat down as a newbie over there and have never been back.
I asked if there was such a thing as a cattle breed that could be used in scrub / woods / thicket.... and received this as the "welcoming reply" (by the way, the did put the little welcome smiley at the end)

Cattle need mineral, water, and fences before they come and "destroy" your woods. When they have eaten every twig and leaf they can reach, they will be looking at you for more food, in terms of hay and grain. .. if you don't want to go to all the hassle of making sure your animals have good water and feed and mineral available and don't want to have your woods destroyed, boxed beef may be the best solution. But I would like your opinion on that

So I am forever grateful to have this site and BYC to ask questions about livestock!!


Keep writing... love your journal and your blog, as well as the input from those here with you

 

[bibliophile birds]

we used to have a man come up through Tennessee called the Goat Man. He traveled with his goats pulling a wagon with all his worldly possessions - never bathed. People would drive for miles to see him. He would set up camp in a field and start preaching.

my mom has told me stories about seeing the Goat Man (Ches McCartney).

here he is with his goat wagon