It was only a matter of time. After moving our boy goat–Tigger–in with the girls, the females finally started showing some interest in their smelly new companion. In the world of goats, courtship starts with some tail wagging on the part of the girl. They circle each other, ears pricked, then nuzzle. There’s some snorting […]
We worked all day Sunday shifting into winter mode: stocking up on firewood, moving animals, uprooting and replanting temporary fencing. The weather forecast was awful, including all manner of snow, rain and ice. It looked like a perfect combination for a power outage, so we even filled tubs of water in the basement just in […]
It was time to move the animals to fresh pasture and I found Tigger, our boy goat, rolling his head around in the grass. Apparently, he’d found something especially smelly he thought would impress his lady friends in our flock of sheep and snagged a bunch of it with his horns. When he finally came […]
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