Treats For The Boys

The goats love a good Christmas tree.  It is such a great treat for them.

They saw it coming!

I think they like the needles in the center best.

There is a little back story to this shot.  Inez, my one and only chicken, is free-range during the day.  Meaning she is free to roam the yard during the day.  It was a good thing I was out trying to get some good pics of the dogs when I see then herding Inez.  I walk around the bushes to get some video and see Gladys with Inez's left-wing feathers in her mouth.  tugging and pulling.  YIKES!!!  I made my first of many rescues I can imagine and set her on the fence and explained to her that it was okay to fly to get out of their way.  We will see tomorrow if she learned her lesson.

Just A Lazy Kind Of Day

It looks like someone is molting.  She has already lost her tail feathers.

I found one of Lucky's tail feathers.

FYI...Inez is still roosting on top of the pergola.  I wonder what she plans to do when the weather turns nasty?

An Evening With My Friends

The boys were so excited to be out and eating leaves and twigs.

It started to sprinkle so everyone retreated to under the rabbit hutch.

They are eating brown crunchy leaves.

Hey, Mom look at me!

A little on the spot quick photoshoot.

Look who I caught eating the variegated liriope.  Not a good choice.

And then someone else joined the party.

Don't you be stickin' your tongue out at me!

Nowe the acorns for dessert.

Boogie moving on to the good stuff.

Then back to the treats.

The girls roosting a little under the rabbit hutch,

Maybe a few weeds mixed in with the good stuff.

Look at me mom I am eating all the stuff so you won't have to rake it all up.

Side Note....this evening when I went out to get the girls to put them in the coop I couldn't find Lucky.  So I took Inez to bed and all the way to the coop we called for her.  She never came running as she always does.  I put Inez in the run and thought I would check for eggs one more time.  Guess who I found in one of the nesting boxes....yep, Lucky.

Just Checking In

Someone likes to play Hide-N-Goat-Seek.

Boogie living his best life.

These guys are so funny!  If I open the sliding glass doors, the Cluck-Thru, or the backyard gate, they start talking to me.  They loved to be loved on.  They love little pieces of black licorice.  And they REALLY like getting out and running around the backyard and eating the things I will let them eat.  I have learned the best way to keep them away from the plants we would like to keep or to get them back in the pen all I have to do it get out the hose and use the water as a shepherds hook.  It is amazing how fast the can move.  They hate water on their backs.

Silly, Silly Animals

Now Gladys has decided to roost in a new spot.

Inez has a buddy.

The Boys were out for a galavant and look what Boogie found...

some chicken leftovers.

Goats Everywhere

We let the goats out the other day for a long graze in the backyard.  They loved it and really didn't do too much damage. 

The Burning Bushes do need a good trim.

Weeds only Boogie!

Good boy trim that bush.

We had started eating lunch and they must have heard all the commotion.  The visited the Cluck-Thru.  That was a huge hit.

The chickens might be short a box of treats.

Boogie wanted to come in to play so bad!

Goats Having Some Fun

The Boys playing follow-the-leader.  Or marching to 'We Are The Dinosaurs" by the Laurie Berkner Band.

Hey Boogie, I hid you little sweet treat in your hay.

Where in here?

You gotta look all the way to the bottom.

Mom, you are tricking me,..it's April Fool's Day.

Goats Are Loving This Weather

Well, today anyway because it isn't raining or cold.

So I have figured out a way to get the buckets of food to their pen and leave them in the dust.  We are all usually shoving and pushing for the best bucket spot...me putting them on the hangers and them eating it even before I get it there.

All three of them were trying to eat out of the bucket in the back.  Silly goats!

Finally, Boot figured it out.  Looks like they all need a good brush.  I was able to trim some hooves this evening with Mark's help

They drink a lot of water...a lot.

As soon as everything dries out a bit we will begin the huge task of removing all the straw in the pen from the winter.  But it is going to be repurposed to mulch in the garden around the strawberry beds.  I am hoping it will help keep the weeds from getting so bad.  And there should be all kinds of treats in there for the chickens to scratch about.  But not in the garden.  Some of it will go on the outside of the fence.  The little alleyway between the outside of the goat fence and the yard fence.  There will probably be enough to put in the way back by the hammock pergola.  It is really going to be a big job but we will get it little by little.

Skip The Frumpy Farmer

This is our Christmas tree looks like after two days of munching by the goats.

They Will Eat Anything

At least tonight they are eating the wild morning glories that are taking over the viburnum bushes along Mr. Bill's side of the fence.

Boogie is a little pig.

He really doesn't want to share at all.  He even gets a little pushy.

And here all this time I was blaming the chickens for eating the black-eyed Susan's.  Sorry girls.

I Lost Something The Other Day...

No, it wasn't any of The Boys!

I know exactly where to find them.

I lost their licorice!  I even text Ms. Yvonne in WI to see if she had seen them.  I jsut happened to look up and saw them on top of the TV.  Who knows.  I probably put them there.