We set up a catch pen inside the girls' lot. They are not happy about it lol!! It's the only way we are going to be able to tame them though. We set up an automatic waterer, their sulfur block, a feeder for their pellets and a feeder for their minerals. There is also a chute for cornering and catching them. We will be building a temporary shelter for them too, but there is no more rain in the forecast at the moment so we have time. Eventually the pen will get taken back down.
The plan is to get them eating the pellets really well and then we will turn Coral loose. At three or four years old I don't see her taming down and she just keeps the kids wound up. Separating her will let her dry up and gain weight too. Pearl needs to stop nursing. We will keep the kids locked up until they are tame (or until we know which ones won't let us tame them... their babies will have to be bottle fed ugh).
Coral eating pellets out of the feeder.
They all ate pellets, but I had to move out of sight so I didn't get any pictures of all of them. Pearl didn't eat much, but she's nursing so she's not hungry. Another reason to separate Coral from them.
P.S. I added a goat page at the top of the blog where all of the info is together and added Emi and the kittens to the Other Pets page up above.
Edited to add more pictures that were taken with an actual camera instead of crappy cell phone pictures. I waited until a bit too late so some or dark and grainy. Oh well. Still better than cell phone pictures.
Jasper.
Jasper and Yankee.
Yankee is in love! He almost never leaves Jasper.
Now the does.
Pearl with Topaz in the background.
Jade
Jade, Garnet and Topaz.
Jade and Topaz.
Garnet and Coral.
Garnet and Topaz.
Garnet
Pearl and Jade (who is not stuck btw).
Garnet.
From left to right, Topaz, Garnet and Coral.
Topaz and Garnet
Topaz with Garnet in the background.
Topaz
Topaz scratching her back.
Garnet
Jade
Oh and while I was taking these I kept hearing a weird noise behind me that almost sounded like an engine approaching... I finally turned around and saw this....
He was purring so loud!
As usual, your pictures are so good that I swear I can smell goat right now.
ReplyDelete"Like an engine" made me laugh - that kitty deserves a belly rub just for the great throw-down bellyrub-begging he offered.
Aww thank you!!! He is a master belly rub solicitor. He gets daily belly rubs. :D
DeleteNothing boring about goats. I think they are cool. I have often wished I could have one.
ReplyDeleteThanks! They are a lot of work, but so much fun too, especially the babies. It's tough starting out with a feral herd again, but we will get them all sorted out eventually. :)
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