The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Carl f k on February 06, 2013, 08:33:36 pm
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Has anyone got any toys in their goats area for them to climb on? looking for one of those big wooden spools for mine
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Yup! I have one of those wooden cable drum thingies. A pallet platform topped with marine ply, 2 huge great tree root/stumps and I built 'goat henge' out of slabs of rock. sounds terribly impressive bit isn't but they like bouncing on whats left ::)
All time favourite though, my goat spot is what used to be the local farmers dumping ground for subsoil and harcore. We have a mound of it about 15-20 feet high. He said he would bring the JCB and get rid of it for me, instead I asked if I could run their fence round it. They spend all day on their mountain and even dustbathe on it in summer. I didn't even know goats dust bathed!
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My young goats loved jumping on the hay feeder N have pretty much broken the lid! I dug out the new field shelter and piled it in the field and they love climbing on it. Only a few feet high but as I have to dig out patio I might just add to it and maybe put some grass seed down.
I would like one of those cable reels but not sure where to get them from
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??dust - what's that then??
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Once a year when I do my house work I take a wheelbarrow of collected dust down to the goats :innocent: ;D
No, the mountain is the only bit that doesn't actually squelch at the moment. But is IS dusty in the hot sun. We had that for about 3 weeks last year sometime!
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My young goats loved jumping on the hay feeder N have pretty much broken the lid! I dug out the new field shelter and piled it in the field and they love climbing on it. Only a few feet high but as I have to dig out patio I might just add to it and maybe put some grass seed down.
I would like one of those cable reels but not sure where to get them from
I got mine from the scrap pile after the festival, I got enough timber to make my goat shed too!
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Had a look on eBay but people turning them into coffee tables and tryin to sell them for 170 quid
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Just asked on Facebook and a friend is gonna get me some..electrical wholesalers are the place to look apparently
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I have the cable spools, where are you based? I got mine for the scrapy
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Wiltshire. Will have to ask around
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West Midlands
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Mine have a bench to jump on but the favourite is a small pile of breeze blocks. Pom spends hours just standing on it with her front legs higher than the back.
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I've got a couple of those all-in-one picnic benches and seats. The kids and the adults all love playing on them ;D
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My goats are very deprived then, they've just got a field or two and stock fencing. :)
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MIne had a long, coffee table (wooden and iron) that thye jump on. Sixpence used to bounce on a mini trampoline but is too huge now.
todays game though was see who can annoy Lisa the most - Savannah broke the gate that joins the 2 goat paddocks together and Sixpence got through a hole that only he can in the adjoining paddock and joined the sheep for a bit. Fedup.com
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You love it Lisa :thumbsup:
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And it does amuse us. ;)
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Ashia loves our dog agility dog-walk! And they have a tractor tyre with ply on it.