February 2, 2012
On Wednesday, we drove the blue buggy out to the goat pen, as Lonnie wanted some time to tame the new goat kids, Hi-Ho Silver and Tonto. I parked the buggy facing the goat barn where we could see all the goats and part of the browsing lot. I gathered up the bucklings, and they settled onto Lonnie's lap.
Lemon (their dam) is getting into this mothering business, and she walked around the buggy grumbling that she didn't have full access to the kids. Last year, her first kid was kidnapped by another doe, and poor Lemon never got to act like a mother. She just went directly to the milk string after her colostrum cleared out. This year, after the first two days, she figured out that these two are HER kids, and she's quite attentive now.
I puttered around, putting out feed for the horses, etc., and then sat with Lonnie and the kids in the buggy. The calico cat came over and draped herself across the hood of the buggy.
Lemon was still stalking around mumbling goat curses under her breath. As she approached the front of the buggy, I watched her face, and her thoughts were apparent. I warned her, "Don't you dare bite that cat's tail." Ha. I should have saved my breath. She walked straight up to the buggy, reached her head up, and gave the cat's tail TWO sharp tugs!
The cat simply moved forward about four inches and settled back down. See why I say she's the goats' cat? She's completely tolerant of them and used to their goaty ways
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Hi Crystal, My name is Sue Hufstutler, and Jennifer Maclary shared your link for your blogger with me so that I could have the recipe for cajeta. I can't wait to try it. I just want to tell you that I am so sorry about Snowball!!! How very sad!!! I've only had dairy goats for a year, and it is nice to read someone elses goat stories. I see that you live in the big town of Noodle:) HaHa...we have a friend who lives in Noodle...I actually don't live too far from you. I sold my buck before my girls kidded, and I will be needing to replace him, but want to wait till mid-late August after I get back from my missions trip to Israel. Do you have any bucks that you are going to be wanting to sell?
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