The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: salopman on December 02, 2011, 06:49:21 pm
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This is "little" curry - or as lesley and I call him - one for the pot!! He is getting a bit pushy now - cleaning out today was fun!!
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This is all 3 after the cleaning out - note fresh new bedding!!
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one more....
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cheeky little chap! he's very cute :)
Is that you in the wellies in the last photo Paul? :wave:
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No that was lesley mucking out yard ...whilst i was on photo duty
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she keep her wellies very clean! ;)
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she keep her wellies very clean! ;)
One does have standards to keep up. ;)
I think having a concrete yard helps. Also no :pig: :pig: :pig:
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I wash my wellies under the tap every night ... then usually remeber something (usually where I've left the eggs!) and have to go back again!
They have a tidemark round, where I try not to wet my jeans :D
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I rarely wash mine. I think the mud just gets so thick it drops off.
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ah, but you've seen our place - the mud on your wellies gets that thick it's hard to walk!
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I think the clue is in the :pig: :pig: :pig:
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ah, but you've seen our place - the mud on your wellies gets that thick it's hard to walk!
i know that feeling lol def pig related
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Can I just ask please? How often do you dung your goathouses out during the winter? There is such a good layer of hay on the floor keeping it warm now and its not too smelly at all. What would you suggest?
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This will be it now for the winter. Probzbly do them again in February or when I start knocking my jhead on the roof! ;D I just keep topping it up and, as you say, it keeps them warm. My shed has a wooden floor so i drilled some large holes in it to assist drainage.
Only snag is that cleaning out in February will be a killer. :( :farmer:
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This will be it now for the winter. Probzbly do them again in February or when I start knocking my jhead on the roof! ;D I just keep topping it up and, as you say, it keeps them warm. My shed has a wooden floor so i drilled some large holes in it to assist drainage.
Only snag is that cleaning out in February will be a killer. :( :farmer:
That's what I thought. I get through 4 black bin bags during a normal dung out. I was hoping for fine weather today, at least that's what Meteo said it would be, so that I could do it today but its pouring with rain again. I would like to give them one last bottoming before the snow comes. Its a great way to burn off calories isnt it!
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This is "little" curry - or as lesley and I call him - one for the pot!! He is getting a bit pushy now - cleaning out today was fun!!
Hope you left a good thick layer of old rotting muck in the pen to keep little curry warm!!!!
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Curry doesn't need muck to keep him warm. He does it by careering round in a manic fashion, knocking out of the way anyone/thing who doesn't move quickly enough. When he's not doing that, he's attempting to mate with his mother and grandmother or trying to escape.