BeccaOH
Almost Self-Reliant
Thanks for riding along. 
Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...
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Beekissed
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As always, Aly...never a dull moment at your place! 
Oh, how I am hoping you have a better week this week! 
Oh, how I am hoping you have a better week this week! 
jenlyn9483
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Glad you got those Ameraucanas taken care of, hope your eye gets better soon.
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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
Don't have time for the details right now, but we picked up 5 goats....1 Billy named Boots, 2 whethers, 2 Nannys, all pygmy's.
They aren't staying long, I gotta run pick up the kids from mom's (who watched the kids while we picked up the goats) and our trip home was well....nightmarish? to say the least.
They aren't staying long, I gotta run pick up the kids from mom's (who watched the kids while we picked up the goats) and our trip home was well....nightmarish? to say the least.
Dace
Revolution in Progress
You are C R A Z Y 
keljonma
Epicurean Goddess
Where will you put them? With Boss and Chase?
lorihadams
Always doing laundry
Temporary........yeah right................
Dace
Revolution in Progress
Lol...they don't call her Mrs. Doolittle for nothin'!
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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
Ok folks, here's the story...
It cost me $20 to go pick up 5 goats. Was supposed to be 8 goats, but two were already gone to someone else when we got there and the owners decided to keep one wether.
There's a little reasoning behind my madness. There's a woman selling out her stock of call ducks, including their breeding pens. She's offered them up for an awesome deal. I want them, badly!
So this morning on CL someone had listed 8 pygmy goats FREE! We sold our goats earlier this year at $50 each....I asked Ernie if we could go get the free goat so I could sell them.
He said YES!
So we called my mom to see if she'd watch the kiddos while we went to pick up the goats.
So we meet the lady who has the goats, she has us follow her to the farm. I thought that trip would never end! We get there, and they have this hairy pigmy billy chained up and 5 other goats running free around him.
It took over 30 minutes to catch all those goats. The first goat they caught, a little horned female, was shoved unceremoniously into the back of the Jeep. We shut the doors, windows were cracked for air flow, and went back to catch the rest. Caught a little cream and black whether, and went to put him in the back. Meanwhile, little brown female had jumped into the front seat and was ramming her head at the windows (nearly broke one off track) to get out!
We get her back in the back (we had laid down the seats and tarped everything) and I hop in the front seat to kind of "guard" where the goats went. With me in the front, they stayed way in the back.
Everyone except one dark brown female has horns. So I'm nervous about hauling all these horned goats home, and was tempted to leave the very-excited-I-want-the-girls Billy Goat there. I have a friend who really wants a pygmy billy, so leaving him at this point wasn't an option.
Finally get the goats all loaded up, Ernie hops up front, fires up the jeep, and we're trying to leave. HUGE commotion in the back! Boots the Billy is trying to ram the whethers and is also chasing and trying to breed the gals!
I was NOT spending out gas making two trips to get all these goats, as that may have been the smart thing. Instead, I get so ticked off at Boots the Goat I grab his horns, flip him on his side.....and I held him like that the whole way home! He was screaming his indignation the whole way. With him under control, everyone else just laid down and tried to relax the whole way home.
We got to 646 in Scio, road we have to turn on to get home, and Boots the Jerk Billy that has to leave TOMORROW gets a leg under him and uses that to his advantage to nearly come into the front with us. Thankfully there was a pull off right there, and we were able to pull over. By the time Ernie stopped Boots the Brat was half in my lap. We shoved him back, and I got a better grip on his horns, pinned him down again, and had no more incidents on the way home.
Took us a whole 5 minute to UNLOAD them.
Boots the Bully wasted NO TIME getting to know the little brown female. She wasn't bred when we brought her home, but she most certainly is now. :/
My arms were numb!
We kicked the turkeys out of the dog kennel and penned up the goats up in there. I already talked to my friend who wants/needs a billy, and so she's picking up Boots tomorrow morning (YAY!).
My mom is interested in either a whether or one of the females, so she is coming this evening to look at them and decide.
The rest I'm taking pictures of and going to try to sell independently from my home before Monday. Monday, whomever is still here will be going to the auction.
I'm just
that I get enough to buy the calls out of the goats!
It cost me $20 to go pick up 5 goats. Was supposed to be 8 goats, but two were already gone to someone else when we got there and the owners decided to keep one wether.
There's a little reasoning behind my madness. There's a woman selling out her stock of call ducks, including their breeding pens. She's offered them up for an awesome deal. I want them, badly!
So this morning on CL someone had listed 8 pygmy goats FREE! We sold our goats earlier this year at $50 each....I asked Ernie if we could go get the free goat so I could sell them.
He said YES!
So we called my mom to see if she'd watch the kiddos while we went to pick up the goats.
So we meet the lady who has the goats, she has us follow her to the farm. I thought that trip would never end! We get there, and they have this hairy pigmy billy chained up and 5 other goats running free around him.
It took over 30 minutes to catch all those goats. The first goat they caught, a little horned female, was shoved unceremoniously into the back of the Jeep. We shut the doors, windows were cracked for air flow, and went back to catch the rest. Caught a little cream and black whether, and went to put him in the back. Meanwhile, little brown female had jumped into the front seat and was ramming her head at the windows (nearly broke one off track) to get out!
We get her back in the back (we had laid down the seats and tarped everything) and I hop in the front seat to kind of "guard" where the goats went. With me in the front, they stayed way in the back.
Everyone except one dark brown female has horns. So I'm nervous about hauling all these horned goats home, and was tempted to leave the very-excited-I-want-the-girls Billy Goat there. I have a friend who really wants a pygmy billy, so leaving him at this point wasn't an option.
Finally get the goats all loaded up, Ernie hops up front, fires up the jeep, and we're trying to leave. HUGE commotion in the back! Boots the Billy is trying to ram the whethers and is also chasing and trying to breed the gals!
I was NOT spending out gas making two trips to get all these goats, as that may have been the smart thing. Instead, I get so ticked off at Boots the Goat I grab his horns, flip him on his side.....and I held him like that the whole way home! He was screaming his indignation the whole way. With him under control, everyone else just laid down and tried to relax the whole way home.
We got to 646 in Scio, road we have to turn on to get home, and Boots the Jerk Billy that has to leave TOMORROW gets a leg under him and uses that to his advantage to nearly come into the front with us. Thankfully there was a pull off right there, and we were able to pull over. By the time Ernie stopped Boots the Brat was half in my lap. We shoved him back, and I got a better grip on his horns, pinned him down again, and had no more incidents on the way home.
Took us a whole 5 minute to UNLOAD them.
Boots the Bully wasted NO TIME getting to know the little brown female. She wasn't bred when we brought her home, but she most certainly is now. :/
My arms were numb!
We kicked the turkeys out of the dog kennel and penned up the goats up in there. I already talked to my friend who wants/needs a billy, and so she's picking up Boots tomorrow morning (YAY!).
My mom is interested in either a whether or one of the females, so she is coming this evening to look at them and decide.
The rest I'm taking pictures of and going to try to sell independently from my home before Monday. Monday, whomever is still here will be going to the auction.
I'm just
that I get enough to buy the calls out of the goats!
BeccaOH
Almost Self-Reliant
Now I'm glad you didn't need to use my car.
