Hello, I'm Stuck

This is one of our new darling does. Her real name is Ivory, but I've decided that I'm going to get her one of those irritating press on name tags that we have all had to wear at one time or another, and hers will say, "Hell0. I'm Stuck"...exclamation mark! Now I am well aware that goats have a nasty reputation for getting themselves in precarious situations, mainly due to the fact that they are never content to be where they are at any given time. And I thought that my dear little Olivia was the Queen of Stuck...but NOoooo, this gal has her beat by a country mile. She's been stuck in the gate, stuck in the fence, stuck in the stall devider and most recently, stuck in the feeder. And not just one time either! So to date we have super-reinforced and goat-proofed all of the above and hopefully we have her outsmarted...or do we???? Stay tuned for the next episode of "Hello. I'm Stuck" and maybe this time I'll be able to capture it on camera!

P.S. That's her Little Miss Innocent look...pretty good huh? :D

Have Goat Will Travel

As my blogger friend Claire said, "I have been a bad bad blogger!" and I do apologize for my absence. It's just been one of those months when time gets away and is somehow lost completely! We had a call from our wonderful goat people at Ronan Country Fibers, saying they needed their spare pasture and was there any way we could come and get T and Badger? At the same time someone turned on the Ornamental Iron Business switch, and all of a sudden my husband has way more work than he can handle. That means work on the barn comes to a screeching halt, and I do Markets and Farmwork until things get under control. The new fencing is not yet done and the new barn not yet completed, so we need to manufacture goat housing in a hurry!

But long story short, we finally got to go Goat Shopping, and ended up purchasing two lovely ladies to keep Mr. T company! Their official names are Satin and Ivory, but we have nicknamed them Sadie and Ivy, and they are pretty as they can be, although pretty shy...so I'm working on loosening them up a little. So far, as close as they will let me get, is talking through the goat feeder...and of course at that point they are being occupied by food, so are generally content!

We really did not intend to purchase the girls when we went to pick up Mr. T and Badger (famous last words!), but as fate had it, I fell in love with our two girls, mother and daughter, and so we squeezed everyone in. We were driving the Jimmy, so the ride home was a new experience, with my husband, myself, three goats and a very large dog! Here are a few pics of our adventure in "goat transport". Outside of a little poop in the door handle everything went amazingly well. I'm thinking of starting another business called "Have Goat Will Travel".