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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Roxy on April 04, 2010, 11:21:52 pm

Title: They need a skate board!!
Post by: Roxy on April 04, 2010, 11:21:52 pm
Primrose the goat kid has learnt a new trick.  She is running across the barn, bouncing off the wall at each end.  Reminds me of the kids at the skateboard park.  Not content with that, she is also springing from the floor and landing on Paddys back.
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: jameslindsay on April 05, 2010, 07:37:38 am
"They need a skateboard" well we would like a video clip if possible. Sounds like she is having a great time. :goat:
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: Anke on April 05, 2010, 12:03:32 pm
My little GG boy bounces off the wall in his pen too, so it's quite normal goat behaviour then.... The two BT girls are in with their mum during the day and are trying to jump on her back all the time.
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: ballingall on April 05, 2010, 01:24:21 pm
Oh all that's normal. So is causing complete havoc. Our BA boys are banned from being loose in the goat shed now- they can get to the top of the stack of bales of straw, onto the top of the round bale of hay, on all the food barrels. Of course knocking stuff over as they go!

Beth
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: Roxy on April 05, 2010, 04:49:53 pm
They cause havoc don't they!!  Buckets, once empty of feed, are ideal for standing in, and putting on their heads .....and then running round the barn unable to see because of the bucket!!  They can bring a smile to my face with their antics.
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: little blue on April 05, 2010, 06:04:36 pm
loony goats!
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: Anke on April 05, 2010, 09:45:10 pm
I put a bucket into the little male's pen with some hay for him to nibble, but all he did was upturn it and crawl inside... prefers to nibble the straw in his pen. Not sure what will happen once I introduce water bucket/shallow bowl for him to drink... towels at the ready I think!
Title: Re: They need a skate board!!
Post by: Emma on April 06, 2010, 09:58:21 am
Goats really sound like adventurous charactors. . . How much space do they need???