Many things have happened since my last post. Some of the bigger news is the Nanny goat had 2 buck kids. I came home one day from service and I had 3 goats standing behind the shop instead of just the one nanny. I will post pics of the "kids" when I get a pic to post.
In the mean time , I have a few of Owen doing what he loves to do. EAT!
Here he experinces spagehti for the first time.
It looks like it was GOOD!! don't it...?
Owen does not just only eat, he likes to play in is sand pile. And sometimes he eats it too.
And he likes ice cream cones too, of course.
Nyle on the other hand is my "Mr. Safety". He eats right, exercises, and takes any precautions to prevent bodily injury to himself. Even at play. Take a look and see "Mr. Safety" at play on his own swing set/ slide combo gym.
Note how the helmet prevents him from banging his head on a low part of the play structure. HEe is uninjured, thanks to taking the extra measure of wearing his "brain buckett" while engaging in some play time on the swingset.
That's my boy!
Other news is that I have made me a milking stancion. Please note that I made it completley out of salvaged materials so as to keep my carbon foot print as small as possible... OK, it was free lumber found in a dumpster. I can't beat free! At any rate, it works very well. The goat stays put, now I can milk her. But first I will have to figure out how to turn those funny looking faucets on...
The chickens are waiting to see if she leaves any feed in the feeder. The flock really like to roost on the stancion in the afternoon. I do not really like it myself as they always "drop" something on the floor, and leave it.
Speaking of chickens, as of today they are on lock down. The strawberries are getting ripe and I found traces of picky pecks on some of them this afternoon. So the girls are going to have to do some time for the crime. I bet they are wondering who told on them, but by the looks of my shop floor, they are all "stool pigions".
Back to Gurdy- You an tell by this picture how excited and the apprecitaion she has for her new stancion.
I know you cant see it too well in this photo, but she is smiling, and just before this was taken, she was dancing the river dance! Well, I guess she could have been trying to get the last peice of briar out between her teeth, and not actually been smiling. And it is possible she had stepped in some goat poo and was trying to get it out between her toes. But I think smile, and River Dance just figures better for sure.
I will update this posting with pics of the kids as soon as I get some. In the mean time, enjoy the strawberries!
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