Posts: 4,594
Threads: 333
Joined: Dec 2013
10-05-2014, 08:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2014, 08:09 PM by Nanno.)
A few days before we left for our annual "goat vacation," I got a box of step-in posts to add as extra supports for my electric goat fence. The net was sagging between posts and I can't have sagging fences now that the bucks are noticing the does and vice versa!
I laid the box in front of the porch without giving it much thought and several hours later my tidy box containing the neat bundle of poles looked like a tornado had hit it!
I don't remotely believe Nubbin did this all by herself, although I'm pretty sure she probably enjoyed it the most. Naughty goats! But this is why I love them... they cannot possibly entertain me enough!
Posts: 194
Threads: 13
Joined: Jun 2014
(10-05-2014, 08:08 PM)Nanno Wrote: A few days before we left for our annual "goat vacation," I got a box of step-in posts to add as extra supports for my electric goat fence. The net was sagging between posts and I can't have sagging fences now that the bucks are noticing the does and vice versa!
I laid the box in front of the porch without giving it much thought and several hours later my tidy box containing the neat bundle of poles looked like a tornado had hit it!
I don't remotely believe Nubbin did this all by herself, although I'm pretty sure she probably enjoyed it the most. Naughty goats! But this is why I love them... they cannot possibly entertain me enough!
Nubbin says "I've been baaaaad!".
Posts: 185
Threads: 8
Joined: May 2014
Haha
Posts: 960
Threads: 62
Joined: Dec 2013
Just so long as they don't jump up on my cars, its all laughs.
Posts: 4,594
Threads: 333
Joined: Dec 2013
Looky what I got! I came across a brand new second-hand packsaddle from Northwest PackGoats! It came in yesterday and this afternoon I tried it on Cuzco. It still needs a pad, of course, but I ordered one of the pocket pads from Northwest today along with the kids saddle. I can't wait to start giving goat rides to kids once we have a kid-friendly goat that's big enough!
Cuzco says, "I'm kid friendly--if you give me enough cookies!"
Posts: 185
Threads: 8
Joined: May 2014
Haha, Cuzco
Funny goat.
Posts: 1,491
Threads: 349
Joined: Dec 2013
The saddle looks so tiny on Cuzco! He such an awesome goat!
Goatberries Happen!
Posts: 4,594
Threads: 333
Joined: Dec 2013
Thanks... he really is an awesome goat! I'll bet the saddle looks bigger once I put those acid rain panniers on it!
Posts: 1,491
Threads: 349
Joined: Dec 2013
I'll bet the saddle will disappear! Those panniers are big and nice!
Goatberries Happen!
Posts: 4,594
Threads: 333
Joined: Dec 2013
Cuzco is such an inscrutable fellow--a study in contrasts. He has atrocious manners and spends a lot of his time growling and snarling at Phil and I, blocking my path to and from the goat pens, walking into me with his hackles raised, etc. I can fend him off, but he never really loses the bad attitude. Just this morning he got so bad with me that I had to flip him over and sit on him twice before he would leave me alone. It's been at least two years since I've had to do this!
On the other hand, you can't find a nicer, calmer, more obedient goat when you're actually working with him. I can trim his hooves without tying him, he stands perfectly for bathing and clipping without a stanchion, and if I have to give a goat shots, Cuzco is the one I want to give them to--he never flinches. Not even my horses stand as still as Cuzco when I'm saddling or harnessing, and they're pretty darned good. Cuzco stands without being tied though.
Today when we were dressing up goats in costumes, Cuzco was the calmest and most cooperative of the bunch. He patiently complied as I squeezed one tight gold necklace after another over his head and horn, and he stood perfectly still while I affixed a black cardboard van on either side. He let me attach a hairpiece to his horn, and then he stood still for the camera when I told him "woah!" He really wanted to follow me--I had cookies--but I'd said "woah" and to Cuzco "woah" means "woah"! He stood like a rock while that ridiculous costume blew up around his head and started flapping like a giant bird. Sometimes this old goat makes me so mad I'm ready for him to keel over any time he's ready, and other times he awes me with his impeccable obedience and good manners. He's a hard one to figure out!
Chat
