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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Roxy on December 27, 2013, 02:49:10 pm

Title: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: Roxy on December 27, 2013, 02:49:10 pm

Rushing round in the gale force wind this morning,in and out of pens with breakfast dishes - went in put three tubs down, and only two heads went down.  No Anna, the white goatling.  Rushed outside in case she had slipped past me ...no.  OMG someone has pinched my Anna I thought. Went back in, and then it dawned on me - I was actually in a pen with two  adult females, not the goatlings.  Phew!!  That will teach me, having so many goats!!
 
Thinking logically, anyone who would walk down a steep field, steal one goat and walk all the way up again, in the torrential rain we had overnight, and the high winds - they would have to be mad, desperate or both!!

Title: Re: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: Anke on December 27, 2013, 04:05:12 pm

Given the  :gloomy: we are having I think it is nigh on impossible to get a  :goat: to go outside....

Title: Re: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: kelly58 on December 27, 2013, 05:16:17 pm

 :roflanim: Yep your right there.

Title: Re: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: little blue on December 27, 2013, 06:01:27 pm

we all get those crazy goat lady moments -
I spent a good minute staring broken-heartedly at an escaped, dead light sussex hen .... that turned out to be a dead plastic bag!!
 
Glad Anna was where she should be ,.. wonder if the older girls appreciated the extra food bucket?!
:)

Title: Re: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 27, 2013, 11:00:55 pm

Ruth, you're not alone. I once was amazed at the sight of a huge white rabbit sitting at the edge of the field that we had walked across earlier. It didn't move as we got nearer and nearer until I realised it was the bag of dog poo that I had left there ready to collect on the way back home.

Title: Re: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: little blue on December 28, 2013, 09:31:48 am

lovely!

glad it's not just me (happens more than I like to admit!)

Title: Re: I thought one had been stolen!!
Post by: Anke on December 28, 2013, 08:50:49 pm

Well I thought recently that a feedback (empty but used for kindling and left outside the main field gate!) was an escaped lamb... It was getting dark though in my defence...