Milking the goats....
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| pot o' milk |
Richard is making cheese again today. The new goat's production is up after just a couple of days.
I think Fairy Dust is happy to have some female company.
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| Jewell |
The llamas, however, are not thrilled to have been kicked out of their barn.
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| Llamas, missing their barn |
Richard is reworking some fencing so we can use the corral panels to make a pen for the billy goat. The billy continues to head butt the pallets on the llama barn. He tore apart the little pallet goat barn Richard made for him and Fairy. So now, he will live behind the corral panels, with some kind of boards thrown on top so he can get out of the rain. Maybe we can find him a new home before the winter comes. I hope so. Or we may have to build him an Earthbag goat shelter and see how that holds up to his abuse.
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| Molet and Fairy Dust |
I try to remember that Molet is just a goat, albeit a big, horned billy, and he is just acting like a protective billy when he head butts the gate after the girls go to the milking stand. It's his job to take care of them and I guess to harass them too. That's what animals do in a natural setting. Too bad the girls are not so keen on his affections. And so, it is for their sake, that we have decided to re-home the overly amorous billy and to separate him in the mean time. Anyone looking for a Nubian billy goat?
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