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Wow check out the ape hangers on those guys.
What about goats?
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DAP
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Hey! What kind of goats are those? They don't look like my pygmies!
wroughtn_harv
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Free! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
The big one is a Tennesse Fainter. For entertainment on slow days or just to show off I can run at him screaming. He'll keel over like a fifteen year old boy caught doing what he shouldn't by her dad.
My friend I got him from says he purchased him at an auction. He'd picked him up cause he was classified as a fainter. It wasn't until he was about five years old that he finally started fainting under pressure. Friend had to put down an injured animal with his twenty two. As he fired he saw something fall out of the corner of his eye. It was Bill and he went over like the bullet had hit him.
Last night I watched the two billys chase the three week old. I suspect it's got something to do with her mother coming into season and the baby being a distraction.
My first reaction was to find the pellet rifle and initiate behavior modification excerises. But then "heck", I thought. "What's got them going pellets even properly placed ain't gonna cure." So I'll watch them and if it's a problem I'll separate the nan and baby from the billys.
The big one is a Tennesse Fainter. For entertainment on slow days or just to show off I can run at him screaming. He'll keel over like a fifteen year old boy caught doing what he shouldn't by her dad.
My friend I got him from says he purchased him at an auction. He'd picked him up cause he was classified as a fainter. It wasn't until he was about five years old that he finally started fainting under pressure. Friend had to put down an injured animal with his twenty two. As he fired he saw something fall out of the corner of his eye. It was Bill and he went over like the bullet had hit him.
Last night I watched the two billys chase the three week old. I suspect it's got something to do with her mother coming into season and the baby being a distraction.
My first reaction was to find the pellet rifle and initiate behavior modification excerises. But then "heck", I thought. "What's got them going pellets even properly placed ain't gonna cure." So I'll watch them and if it's a problem I'll separate the nan and baby from the billys.
Youare
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There is a custom butcher shop / slaugther house just south of me in northern Ma. that processes about 80 goats a week. There is a big market demand in Boston among some ethnic groups.
We have a couple of goats still. Goat meat is very good when they are young.
Randy
We have a couple of goats still. Goat meat is very good when they are young.
Randy
Just as a caution, the guy I bought my house from had goats. We have a nice wooded acre in front of the house where he kept them; problem is they ate the bark off about 35 cherry and ash trees, killing them.
JT
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tugokc
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Does anyone have a picture of what an appropriate goat containing fence might look like? I am pretty sure the one we have won't do the job. Thanks.
wroughtn_harv
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I've never tried to take a picture of a good cussin'. I swear that's what keeps my four in these days./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif The gate to the shop is twenty six feet across. It's usually open when I'm around. Visitor's heathern kids will see the goats and it's like the kids all of sudden morph into coyotes. The goats will run right at the open gate with them heatherns from heck on their tail. At the last minute the goats will veer left of right like there's this big ugly fella standing in the middle of the driveway. Folks ask me why they do that. I have to tell them the truth. That last cussin' was so memorable that even I still remember it.
Goats are like deer in that they won't jump over a fence unless they can see exactly where they're gonna land on the other side. As you might have noticed completely the opposite of humans who are rather fond of jumping and then praying like crazy for something soft to land on the other side.
Actually you will find keeping them isn't such a matter of how high the fence but how good the fence is along the bottom. A good test of your fence is to put meat on the outside and turn your minature dachsund loose to go after it. If the dog can crawl under the fence then you can bet the family farm and the kid's college fund the goats can too. You would think they were bunnies more than deer the way they can crawl under a fence.
A hot wire works good. Two of them work even better. One about eight inches or so off the ground and one about two feet works great for pygmies. Home Depot or Lowes both carry field fence in three hundred and thirty foot rolls for about eighty bucks. It works great if pulled tight.
I wouldn't recommend chainlink unless it was put in properly. The reason is chainlink fence is woven. That means it'll stretch, sorta on the principle of nylon pantyhose. You can put twenty gallons into a three gallon container and have it look like there's only ten. A bud of mine lost all of his goats to their ability to crawl under his six foot chainlink fence. No one had told him why there's that nine gauge wire along the bottom and why the chainlink is hog ringed to it every eighteen inches.
I highly recommend goats. They mow clean, love poison ivy, fertilize in as nonoffensive manner as is possible, and have personalities similar to good grandkids. Except for billy goats after six months of age. Then they're more like your own kids were or will be.
Goats are like deer in that they won't jump over a fence unless they can see exactly where they're gonna land on the other side. As you might have noticed completely the opposite of humans who are rather fond of jumping and then praying like crazy for something soft to land on the other side.
Actually you will find keeping them isn't such a matter of how high the fence but how good the fence is along the bottom. A good test of your fence is to put meat on the outside and turn your minature dachsund loose to go after it. If the dog can crawl under the fence then you can bet the family farm and the kid's college fund the goats can too. You would think they were bunnies more than deer the way they can crawl under a fence.
A hot wire works good. Two of them work even better. One about eight inches or so off the ground and one about two feet works great for pygmies. Home Depot or Lowes both carry field fence in three hundred and thirty foot rolls for about eighty bucks. It works great if pulled tight.
I wouldn't recommend chainlink unless it was put in properly. The reason is chainlink fence is woven. That means it'll stretch, sorta on the principle of nylon pantyhose. You can put twenty gallons into a three gallon container and have it look like there's only ten. A bud of mine lost all of his goats to their ability to crawl under his six foot chainlink fence. No one had told him why there's that nine gauge wire along the bottom and why the chainlink is hog ringed to it every eighteen inches.
I highly recommend goats. They mow clean, love poison ivy, fertilize in as nonoffensive manner as is possible, and have personalities similar to good grandkids. Except for billy goats after six months of age. Then they're more like your own kids were or will be.
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tugokc
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Thank you both. I am kinda leaning toward fainters, but momma is inclined toward pygmies. Who knows maybe both.