Animals
- More Dress-up Fun
When the goats heard that the donkeys were playing dress up,they begged to play along. Of course Dot was the first in line for hats.She chose the reindeer antlers because of the feather boa trim and the bells.Dot is a girlie girl! O'Malley was next...
- Motherhood
One of the strongest instincts, I believe, is that of a mother protecting her young.A perfect illustration of this is our newest mother, O'Malley. Our maternity ward currently houses our three does,Sissy, O'Malley, and O'Malley's daughter...
- You Know You're Having A Bad Day When......
.....your best friend poops on you!!! Poor O'Malley was found waddling (yes, she has that pregnant waddle) around the goat yard yesterday with a pile of goat berries on her back. It's bad enough that Missy and Myrtle butt her with their...
- What About Horns?
It seems that those interested in purchasing/raising goats seem to have a preference as to whether their goats have horns. Not all goats have horns. Occasionally one will be what we call "polled" or hornless by nature. For the most part, though goats...
- A Boy And His Goat......
Meet Mike. For those of you who have not read this blog from its beginning, you may not know Mike. Mike is my brother-in-law, husband to Becky (the Vet)...my hubby's sister. Mike and Becky moved from Reno, Nevada a little over a year ago and bought...
Animals
Transformation
If you follow our blog,
you will know that O'Malley is one of our favored goats.
She came to us in 2007 with our original foundation stock...
having just been born that spring.
O'Malley is a Fainting Goat,
and scores very highly on the fainting scale...
a five out of five.
She is a stiff legged goat,
meaning that her myotonia affects her movement most of the time.
It never seems to bother her, though,
she just stiffly, and quite slowly hobbles around.
The first year that we had O'Malley,
we noticed that she grew tons of angora fur in preparation for winter.
That spring she shed most of it,
but it grew back again by August.
This cycle repeated each year....
and each year O'Malley got a little more ragged looking.
That is, until this summer.
This year, O'Malley looks the best she has ever looked.
She is sleek and slim....no ragged angora fur anywhere.
It seems that pregnancy has had a very positive effect on
O'Malley's looks.
For those of you who might be curious
about O'Malley's lack of horns....
she is what is called "polled";
that is, she was born without horns.
We were hoping that her kids,
Fred and Sally, might follow suit.
No such luck....Fred and Sally have horns.
- More Dress-up Fun
When the goats heard that the donkeys were playing dress up,they begged to play along. Of course Dot was the first in line for hats.She chose the reindeer antlers because of the feather boa trim and the bells.Dot is a girlie girl! O'Malley was next...
- Motherhood
One of the strongest instincts, I believe, is that of a mother protecting her young.A perfect illustration of this is our newest mother, O'Malley. Our maternity ward currently houses our three does,Sissy, O'Malley, and O'Malley's daughter...
- You Know You're Having A Bad Day When......
.....your best friend poops on you!!! Poor O'Malley was found waddling (yes, she has that pregnant waddle) around the goat yard yesterday with a pile of goat berries on her back. It's bad enough that Missy and Myrtle butt her with their...
- What About Horns?
It seems that those interested in purchasing/raising goats seem to have a preference as to whether their goats have horns. Not all goats have horns. Occasionally one will be what we call "polled" or hornless by nature. For the most part, though goats...
- A Boy And His Goat......
Meet Mike. For those of you who have not read this blog from its beginning, you may not know Mike. Mike is my brother-in-law, husband to Becky (the Vet)...my hubby's sister. Mike and Becky moved from Reno, Nevada a little over a year ago and bought...