Just my second week owning goats again, and already they are beating me.
I don’t want to tell you how many ways they have escaped from their pen already.
The little guy is small enough to squeeze through cracks, and the older two…
Well they could be the next teammates to join the Harlem Globetrotters. (Same Globe… Different Trot….)
In todays video I show you my new attempt to contain them with a pretty nifty sliding goat wall. Check it out!
In todays video I use my Dewalt Construction Combo!
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It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one with an escape artist. As a matter of fact I was a goat owner less than 20 minutes before the race was on. I was new to goats. Me and my wife bought a house with about five and a half acres, and it came with a donkey! It was already fenced and the original owners raised goats before us. We were so excited. Our first two goats were bought for our two children at auction by their grandparents. I was building a chicken coop when they brought them by. I was the only one home at the time so I was excited for the big reveal. We unloaded the goats and I took a second to watch them, look at chicken coop I was building, and just take in our new found Eden. I went back to work and noticed one of the goats seemed a bit restless, but I figured she’d be OK once she got used to her new surroundings. I made a mistake. In between the banging of the hammer I could hear her bleating, it wasn’t a normal “bah” but almost like a scream. I now realize that she still had milk and was probably looking for her kid. After a short time I noticed that the bleating had stopped but the “bah” I was hearing wasnt inside the fence with me anymore. I set out tracking the noise and made it to the gate just in time to see one of our new additions jumping the fence into the cow pasture next to us. Again, I’d never owned a goat but I do own a Jack Russell terrier. So I ran after it. The thing took off. It’s speed was surprising and quickly I realized I was in a bad spot. Not long after that it was gone. I’d quit running after it but the cows that were in the field didn’t . I went to our neighbor’s house next to the field. We hadn’t yet met them but they were outside and had watched everything take place up to this point. I was greeted with “you must be the goat herder”. Through the embarrassment I introduced myself and asked if they’d seen where the beast had gone. I was already running over in my mind how I was going to tell my kids two goats were now one and they’d have to share. The neighbor pointed and said all the cows had gone “that way”. As I looked in that direction I noticed the cows were running back towards us, with a brown spot leading the way. It was still hoofing it. We watched as it jumped the fence back to our front yard and I went back home. After about 45 minutes and two laps around what now seemed like 30 acres, I got the thing back in the fence. It took two hours to fix the area it got out at but the kids loved them. We now have 7 goats and I thought we were good. I was wrong again. “Frank”refuses to stay in and now rocks the “rod of shame”. It’s taped to his horns and larger than the fence opening. It’s there until he is too big to squeeze out. We love our goats and it’s great to look outside and see them all. It’s even better if they’re all in the fence. I guess it has been worth it.