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27 Housekeeping

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this makes me so happy.  7 wheelbarrows full of bedding straw and manure.  scrap grass hay.

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a rare good pic of Just Going.  a Very nice, as in conformation, Jr. Doe.  i should sell her.

and then, just some pics where, if you click them to enlarge, you can see just a little of the Evening play.  They RUN, very very fast, rear and head butt, whirl and jump.  here, there is barely any of that visible except for the first one, really, on bottom right you can see SnowBunny leaning in sideways on the turn…anyway…..

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salt cedar beginning to "leaf"

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  1. nance Avatar
    nance

    I love getting the sense of how they play.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    again…wish i could make a movie. these pics, any pics
    don’t convey the really amazing craziness of their
    evenings. All of them. not just the young ones, but
    All of them are Into it. it’s how they know eachother,
    playing like this. how they maintain their sense of themselves as a herd. it’s really very beautiful to watch.

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  3. nance Avatar
    nance

    You’ve given me enough for a movie in my mind. Animals at play are delightful. We watched a squirrel today jumping and twisting and climbing and then doing it again and again… Playing!

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  4. wholly Jeanne Avatar
    wholly Jeanne

    We have a lot of goats and goat stories in my family. (This may or may not be a metaphor.)

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  5. roz Avatar
    roz

    wowie..happy, mad, playful ‘becareful someone will be hurt soon ‘ goat fun.
    my mother always said that when any fun appeared ..STOP IT NOW , SOMEONE WILL GET HURT SOON.
    one evening when running wildly around and around the house my sister broke her arm. s’pose mum was right …

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  6. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    queen of the hill, back there next to the barn! so funny. and the doe under the picnic table. she really has you in her sights. enjoying walking around your magic acre, noticing how you’ve done this and that ALL to keep the goats safe and happy. doing what needs to be done. and the compost. mmm mmmm mmmm. the things you will grow

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  7. Michelle Avatar
    Michelle

    —Yee ha!–
    so what camera are you using? A year after I had my Canon A1100 IS, I found out it had a movie setting. All my little videos are with this camera. I wonder if yours has a movie setting?

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  8. Jennie Avatar
    Jennie

    What HAPPY goats at day’s end.
    Having been loved…

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    you’ve transformed your world into a goat playground Grace love the whirling!

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  10. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    ah the goats frolicking!! I wish you could make a goat-movie
    our boys wrestle with each other in the evenings, blow off steam (stoom afblazen we say in Dutch)
    btw for a year now I’ve been drinking goat’s milk in my tea (otherwise I don’t do milk) we can buy it in several stores these days, much better for my bowls;-)

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  11. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    hey, it only happened once

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  12. jude Avatar
    jude

    they are so funny.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they Are. i really hope you get to go live with sheep.
    it would be worth anything to have that experience.

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  14. roz Avatar
    roz

    hey , you’re right !

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  15. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    they are a riot!! really hilarious. it comes through even without moving pictures.

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  16. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    frolic & rumpus!

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    please! insert any Goat story you might think of. i NEED
    Goat stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this is funny and perfect…saskia’s response to your
    mom. how good does that get…?……
    no Goat mother would Ever think to say that to a kid.
    they need, from even day one, to be ready. the only
    way you can be ready is to be in the thick of it.
    actually, their lives depend on this if they were in
    a more natural environment. but even too, this domestic
    environment. you need to learn FAST to take your place,
    whatever that place is. and it changes….
    according to exactly what, i don’t really know, but i
    think according to breeding cycle. she who is in heat
    needs to make this known to the herd and assert herself.
    With Nigerian Dwarves which come into heat MONTHLY, like
    women, there might be a few out of 13 in heat. who gets
    the attention of the most desirable buck?????
    Serious Business.
    When we had babies last year, it began in April and went
    into June. 14 of them and i was so overwhelmed i didn’t
    have the wherewithall to watch closely. This time it will be different. only 2 does bred so maybe 4 or 5 babies.
    and it will be interesting to watch how they make their
    way out there. REALLY interesting.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i wish you could see it, really.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i’ll look for the instruction book

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s the best…having been loved, huh.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yup. a whole different world.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    goats milk is much more easily used by humans than cow.
    there are many diseases that respond to Goat milk, cheese,
    Parkinsons for one.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are incredibly hard to photograph.

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    worse than that…

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  26. roz Avatar
    roz

    grace i must say saskia’s response was like a lightening bolt..why had i not thought of that before ?
    well too busy toeing the line or else i think .
    yep.one of those exorcist moments..my head spun 360 degrees.
    and my life when mum was in charge was always about staying in cotton wool ..obviously NOT what the goats are about !

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  27. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    ( I meant bowels)

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  28. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    thing is Roz, when it comes to seeing my own mother, I have issues too (duh)
    her words/actions (and my dads’) are the blueprint of my life and once I realize that, I can look at it and say to myself: okay some of what you taught me is okay and works for me,some of it isn’t okay at all and other stuff is useless to me, but get it.

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