You might remember the post some time ago about his birth and that we almost lost him after the birth.
Well Bob has grown up great, but he is a problem. He loves to escape, so every day he gets out. Then he feels lost, but will walk around on the out side of the fence keeping close to the herd, but just on the other side of the fence. So I asked Scott to please put a special post on his horns so help prevent him from jumping thru the fence too much. ( I just can not get the photo to turn the right way.)
So this worked well so far.
Bob was not the first one to have this done here on the Keeslar farm.
Here is one of the young female goats who thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. She places her head thru the fence, to eat the grass on the other side of the fence, and if she happens to be out side of the pasture, she will place her head thru the fence to the inside of the pasture to eat the grass there!
We really do not care if she does that, but she then gets stuck and can not get her head back out. (many of the older goats know how to get their head back out of the fence) So we will come home and find her stuck, out on the back forty and we just can not have that. That is not safe for her. In the hot day she could get dehydrated to easily.
So she was one of the first ones to have the dowel rod duct taped to her horns. She was good at getting it off so Scott made a special one for her by drilling two holes in a board-here she is. We still have duct tape on her too!
Here are some of the goats playing on their play structures close to the barn...
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