BOB GETS A NEW HOME and DRACO GETS THINNER!

Bob, a goat who has captured our hearts and frustrated us at the same time, has been moved to his new home this past week.

He is now residing at my sisters home.  If you have not read about Bob, read his stories here ...

Bob in the beginning

Bob on the farm 

Bob 

So Bob was to become food or he had to go to someones home.  Bob just could not become food, he has too big of a personality....a frustrating one, but a personality never the less!  I would often come home and bob was out...he would cry, run towards the fence where the other goats were, crying as if saying: help me farmers wife, I am outside the fence and dont know how to get back in!  Once when I got home, he was waiting by the driveway-his usual spot to wait for us when he wanted put back into the barn yard, I had a lot of stuff to carry in and couldn't take him to the barnyard right then, so went to the back door, with all my packages and Bob in tow, and knocked on the door, Scott opened the door and in walked
Bob.  I said-you have a visitor...

We were not really sure where Bob was getting out of the fence at, no other sheep or goats were getting out, (thankfully). One day Scott and I looked out of the front window and saw
Bob-out front in the yard, and I said, I will go 'herd' him into the pasture...but I am using the riding lawn mower.  Scott just snickered.  I got the lawn mower, with a wagon still hooked up onto it, so no quick turns, but away I went.  Out to the front -down the driveway, around the front yard, towards Bob.  Bob took one look at the lawnmower coming towards him and cried and ran!  So around the next corner of the fence, down the lane we went towards the back woods.  Bob would cry out, stop and look at me and then cry and run a bit more, stop and look cry out and run some more, stop and look (yes, Bob I am still in pursuit) so that is the way it went.  Eventually Bob out ran the lawnmower,  (if I did not have a wagon behind me I would have caught him I am sure) he went around the back corner of the fence by the woods and ran to his 'door in the fence' and went into the pasture.  Scott was out side up by the house and saw-which was good, now we knew where he was getting out!  That area got fixed, but Bob still got out.  Must be a second door somewhere in the fence. 

So bob was going to my sisters house...he will eat and clean the fence row up, and bug (cough) I mean-- allow others to enjoy his company.

Bob in the truck before we leave for his new home

Bob -we  have arrived, and he is a little stressed (and yes he is tied so he did not stand up then fall and break any legs)

Bob in his new home

Bob in his new home

The other thing we had to get done this week (among many other things) is brush out our dog-Draco.  Draco has enough fur that in the winter he can lay out in the snow, with snow falling on him and the snow does not melt.  This is because he has such thick fur.....so we brushed him out, and this is just some of the fur (that fuzzy stuff at the base of the fur) that come out...I only worked for about an hour on this, but to totally groom him would take about 6-8 hours.  He gets tired of the brushing actually....

the photo does not show all the fur, there is a lot more all over!

Goat Problem

                                                               This is Bob

 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...

New goat has some fun!

It is a lot of fun to just sit out in the pasture and watch goats. Well, we find it fun anyway...
Here is one of the new ones-the other day, she was trying to get to the last bit of her food...she got her face stuck in the little container, spent some time shaking her head around until the container came off....then another goat did the same!

New Goats arrive...

Today we received a blessing of two new goats. I have finally taken photos of all of the goats...
so now I will 'introduce' you now to our little goat herd...

This is Asher, He is a little brown goat...cute little guy...

This one is Samson...his ears are a little spotty...

This is Daisy...




And this one is Daisy...



This is one of the new ones today..her nick name is peanut...

and this is peanuts mom...
Shalom....