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04-08-2015, 08:01 AM
I just joined and am excited to be working with a yearling Saanen wether. It is tough as he only was taken from his real mom when she recently kidded. I know I have a lot of work getting him to follow me. Right now we are working on standing on a short line in the barn while I do something. He is energetic for sure and I don't want to deny him time with the herd outside as we have been so cooped up with a long winter but when it's time to take a walk he needs the company of our two year old doe Maple who follows me everywhere.
My goal is to take both of them on a long day hike late this summer. Now we have to walk on the road side and cars spook them. fortunately the drivers slow down. the snow on the woods roads is too soft and deep now and plus the streams are everywhere. In a few weeks we will be walking thru water and I hope they join me on the other side. might be the hardest lesson of all as right now they jump over all puddles and avoid ice.
I would appreciate any tips for those of us in the New England region. I myself plan to hike the AT section in MA in early May and I expect to see lots of black bears. I wonder if small bears spook tethered goats----yet I wonder if I would want to tether a "newbie" overnight…I doubt I would sleep for worry.
My goal is to take both of them on a long day hike late this summer. Now we have to walk on the road side and cars spook them. fortunately the drivers slow down. the snow on the woods roads is too soft and deep now and plus the streams are everywhere. In a few weeks we will be walking thru water and I hope they join me on the other side. might be the hardest lesson of all as right now they jump over all puddles and avoid ice.
I would appreciate any tips for those of us in the New England region. I myself plan to hike the AT section in MA in early May and I expect to see lots of black bears. I wonder if small bears spook tethered goats----yet I wonder if I would want to tether a "newbie" overnight…I doubt I would sleep for worry.