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12-10-2016, 04:15 PM
Today we have a break in the storms. I grew up in Michigan where we always had a lot of snow. Here we only get snow a few times each winter and normally not a lot so it's always exciting for me. The sun is out, the sky is blue and the temp is headed to 30* today!
I hauled the hoses out of the shop to fill the water tanks then opened the gate to the goat pen and TRIED to call them out to roam. They stood/laid in their huts looking at me, while chewing their cuds, as if to say - you want us to come out in the cold?! With their fluffy winter coats you'd think they'd be plenty warm. I have wuss goats!
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I went about hooking the hose to the frost free spigot and began filling the Boer goat tank. My goats decided they'd come out to join me - grudgingly. Once they were out they munched on the arborvitae by the shop and followed me while I did my other outside chores.
Once I finished filling the water tanks and had drained and put away the hoses I headed to my back yard to sit in the sun while the goats munched on the rose bushes and leftover garden plants. The Knockout roses are their favorite. Unlike tea roses, the Knockout roses only get pruned once each spring so they grow into big shrub-like bushes.
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The Knockouts are their favorite unless they decide to become birds and eat sunflower seeds from the feeders!
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Then I took them for a walk around the farm. It was such a nice day I didn't want to go inside!
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We have large flocks of geese that land in the fields around our house. Most winters we put corn out for them. It's fun watching their antics. Once in awhile banded ones come in and we're able to look up their neck band number to see the location where they were banded. A flock of them got up off the field while we were walking.
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After about 3 hours I fed the goats some peanuts and put hay in their feeders. Unlike my goats I was grudgingly heading inside!
I hauled the hoses out of the shop to fill the water tanks then opened the gate to the goat pen and TRIED to call them out to roam. They stood/laid in their huts looking at me, while chewing their cuds, as if to say - you want us to come out in the cold?! With their fluffy winter coats you'd think they'd be plenty warm. I have wuss goats!
8.jpg (Size: 40.94 KB / Downloads: 38)
I went about hooking the hose to the frost free spigot and began filling the Boer goat tank. My goats decided they'd come out to join me - grudgingly. Once they were out they munched on the arborvitae by the shop and followed me while I did my other outside chores.
Once I finished filling the water tanks and had drained and put away the hoses I headed to my back yard to sit in the sun while the goats munched on the rose bushes and leftover garden plants. The Knockout roses are their favorite. Unlike tea roses, the Knockout roses only get pruned once each spring so they grow into big shrub-like bushes.
7.jpg (Size: 54.77 KB / Downloads: 36)
10.jpg (Size: 43.3 KB / Downloads: 36)
The Knockouts are their favorite unless they decide to become birds and eat sunflower seeds from the feeders!
9.jpg (Size: 50.72 KB / Downloads: 36)
Then I took them for a walk around the farm. It was such a nice day I didn't want to go inside!
2.jpg (Size: 71.01 KB / Downloads: 33)
We have large flocks of geese that land in the fields around our house. Most winters we put corn out for them. It's fun watching their antics. Once in awhile banded ones come in and we're able to look up their neck band number to see the location where they were banded. A flock of them got up off the field while we were walking.
1.jpg (Size: 11.87 KB / Downloads: 33)
After about 3 hours I fed the goats some peanuts and put hay in their feeders. Unlike my goats I was grudgingly heading inside!
Goatberries Happen!