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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: clydesdaleclopper on July 10, 2015, 09:17:46 pm

Title: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on July 10, 2015, 09:17:46 pm
If there was such a competition I think I win  ::)  Hercules has started jumping up onto the ledge above the kicking boards in the stables and running round and jumping into Annabel's pen so that he can steal her food. Now where is that curry sauce




(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h339/whitbylast/IMG_0230_zpshvjwbuxo.jpg)
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Melmarsh on July 10, 2015, 09:21:11 pm
Don't you just love those goats !!!! :roflanim: :sunshine: :love:
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: verdifish on July 10, 2015, 09:23:05 pm
If there was such a competition I think I win  ::)  Hercules has started jumping up onto the ledge above the kicking boards in the stables and running round and jumping into Annabel's pen so that he can steal her food. Now where is that curry sauce




(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h339/whitbylast/IMG_0230_zpshvjwbuxo.jpg)


Katy I think this needs turning into a caption competition!!!
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: ScotsGirl on July 10, 2015, 10:30:32 pm
I'm still gobsmacked that he managed to get up there and move!
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: DavidandCollette on July 11, 2015, 07:49:58 am
Mine look well behaved in comparison. However I have only had them a month  :goat:
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Cosmore on July 11, 2015, 10:53:54 am
There's nowt so sure footed as a goat! :roflanim: . I remember seeing a couple years ago that spent a part of their days galloping up and down the length of a dutch barn roof - 50 feet up! The noise from the corrugated  iron was horrendous, they seemed to love it. Their way up and down was by jumping up on a wall, running along and jumping up on a shed roof which was next to an office on the end of the barn, onto the office roof and from there leaping onto the sloping roof of the barn and then charging up the slope and finally up to the ridge! :o   They never missed a footing or fell off going up or down.
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on July 11, 2015, 11:39:55 am
Now don't go giving him ideas
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Scotsdumpy on July 11, 2015, 05:23:49 pm


Not quite a dutch barn but a steading!!
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Talana on July 11, 2015, 06:58:29 pm
He's lovely clydesdaleclopper ,they are so cheeky and always amaze you what they will do next. When I was a child I  found one of our two goats at the time inside a tractor along with collie dog not to my Dads amusement - the same goat  also could open the house door run to the kitchen table gobble the sugar out of the bowl and out before my Dad was chasing her out.
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Dogwalker on July 11, 2015, 08:31:59 pm
I 'used' to have one who'd jump the gate out of the field into each pen in turn to steal other goats supper and out  to the next one as I approached.  Finally back into the field shelter for her supper with the other teenagers in her group.
I was going to keep them over the summer and send them for meat in September.  They went a couple of weeks ago, it was driving me nuts spending 1/2 an hour each evening giving them their buckets.
Life's so much easier without her.
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Lesley Silvester on July 12, 2015, 12:21:39 am
A nearby goatkeeper has one who had a kid when she was not much more than a baby herself. The owner couldn't understand it as her billy was kept shut in a separate part of the shed and couldn't have got to her. In the end she concluded that the little one had gone through a window opening about 18 inches square and about five foot up to get into her daddy and the kid was the result. She was a great milker though.
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: tattycat on July 19, 2015, 08:31:06 pm
 :roflanim: :roflanim:
love it that both pictures are Toggenburg's!
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on July 20, 2015, 12:31:00 am
here's my Psycho...aptly named! he managed to get himself down somehow  :-\
Title: Re: Who has the peskiest goat competition
Post by: Penninehillbilly on July 20, 2015, 05:55:05 pm
Like the smile  :)