and so am I .....of rain, rain, and more rain. Last night was terrible, with torrential downpours, which lasted ages. Rained all night, and still raining hard now. Left the doors open for some of the goats, so that if the rain eases, they can come out into the paddock. Darren the billy, comes out for a few minutes, then the heavy rain returns and off he goes indoors. He must come to the door to check its stopped, before venturing out again!!
Dinah, Cherry and Minnie came out to the big hay rack, although they had hay indoors, as did Bramble and Alice. Then Alice decided it was too wet for the small kids to be out, and ushered them back indoors - how strange that she is looking to these kids, yet ignored her own three (and still does if she sees them in the field). Trouble is, if the goats are coming out, they tread the mud into their sheds and make a right muddy mess, but they seem to like the door open to see out, and check the weather!!
Been for yet another large bale of round hay,and using one bale a week, which I should not be at this time of year, but 27 goats and 3 small ponies can eat a lot in this weather. They no sooner get outside than the rain starts and off they have to run to shelter!! Still some grass, which is surprising given the amount of water that has fallen, but I can see it turning to mud.
Supposed to be taking pics of the pygmies, which I am selling, but they refuse to come out of their shed for a photo shoot - and who can blame them looking at this rain.
At least all this rain is filling my big water tank, off the stable guttering, so thats one good thing. About the only one.
Topic: Goats are fed up (Read 4720 times)
