Preparations for repatriating our runaway boy goat continued even through the holidays. I made a trip to Tractor Supply and picked up two 10-foot sections of metal gate and mounted them inside our livestock shelter to create this pen. I think 100 square feet should be adequate to make our buckling comfortable while we acclimate […]
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Every day since Thanksgiving, I’ve been visiting our escapee goat buckling at a nearby vacant house where he’s taken up residence. Morning and afternoon, I bring him a bucket of grain. Extremely skittish, he used to run off at the sight of me. With the promise of grain, I’ve been drawing him closer to me […]
My wife calls them rats with long legs. They devastate the garden. They spread Lyme disease. Now here’s another reason to hate deer: meningeal worm. Ever heard of meningeal worm? Neither had I, until our 8-month-old girl goat started limping. First it was the right leg she was favoring. We thought she’d been stepped on […]
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