Friggin' N00B

Welcome to Nutmeg! Showed up at 3:30 this afternoon. One shot with giblets per Lil' Griff.

May your herd multiply and your wives be fruitful.

Sweet!
When are you gonna start making your own cheese?

ahh nutmeg! welcome!

Oh how I wish I could be with them! :)

xoxoxoBruce;357003 wrote:

May your herd multiply and your wives be fruitful.

Thank you berry mush.

jinx;357004 wrote:

Sweet!
When are you gonna start making your own cheese?

Kids are on summer vacation as of tomorrow evening...

skysidhe;357005 wrote:

ahh nutmeg! welcome!

Oh how I wish I could be with them! :)

Get in line. ;)

Shes sooooooo cute Griff!!! Cute name too.

OH...I love baby goats. Make sure you give us plenty of pics, Griff.

Griff;357015 wrote:

Thank you berry mush.

Kids are on summer vacation as of tomorrow evening...

Get in line. ;)

getting!! :)

bluecuracao;357024 wrote:

OH...I love baby goats. Make sure you give us plenty of pics, Griff.

You got it. :)

cute kidd, nasty giblets.

you're the man, griff

Goats must be tough. How can that not hurt?

Nice pics, Griff.

awww, that's precious! :)

Are you a lifelong farm person, or was it a later-in-life decision to raise animals? Mostly curious because my farm-raised (but free-range!) hubby is somewhat bemused by my fussing over baby farm animals.

I'm farm raised. I appreciate the babies but not nearly as much as the women do.

Yea! another lawn mower.

More action on Sunday.

Looks like it's old ennough to eat

How big is your gang now? I bet the little ones are a ton of fun!

We're at 5 goats now 3 littles/2 biggies. Nutmeg is quite amusing now, but the others are too small for her to play with for another couple days. Pete has some video to share when she gets time to put it up. She made cheese yesterday mmmm... yum.

Griff -- not including your neighbors, are there any animals around you that might try to eat your goats? Do you have to worry about foxes or bears, for example?

We have a lot of bears. The dogs are tied out by the goat shed at night as a proximity alarm.

Griff;360714 wrote:

We have a lot of bears. The dogs are tied out by the goat shed at night as a proximity alarm.

As an alarm, or as sacrifice to the Bear gods?

I prefer to think of it as a holding action.

Griff;360714 wrote:

We have a lot of bears. The dogs are tied out by the goat shed at night as a proximity alarm.

If the dog alarm goes off in the middle of the night, what is your response?

TheMercenary;357404 wrote:

Yea! another lawn mower.

We are jokingly considering getting goats for this purpose, which you could actually get away with in my neighborhood.
Fence the yard in, buy a couple of goats off my uncle, never mow again. Plus, free petting zoo.

yeah, cuz cleaning up goat shit and feeding them is so much more pleasant than mowing is. jokingly, my eye.

Cute, congratulations.

lumberjim;360760 wrote:

yeah, cuz cleaning up goat shit and feeding them is so much more pleasant than mowing is. jokingly, my eye.

Can't I just get pigs, to eat the goat shit? And then I can eat the pigs? The goats, of course, eat the grass.