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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: sokel on May 02, 2013, 08:42:33 pm
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Well the :sunshine: is here so the extension has started, what started off as a small shed facing onto the stables has sort of tuned into a 24ft x 12 ft space with a roofed walk through between the stables and the new bit ::)
Just hope the weather stays nice untill we can get it done
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Sounds wonderful, very jealous :thumbsup:
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It sounds fantastic, we will need pics!!! :thumbsup:
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Well the weather put things on hold a bit but today we have got the roof on and 2 of the walls are boarded in so only 1 wall to do then the pens to erect
Pics to follow ::)
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:excited: Sounds great.
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mini heat wave booked from sunday will last a week
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mini heat wave booked from sunday will last a week
Can definatly live with that ! ::) hopefully get it finished and shuffle everyone around ready for the new Boer and her 2 kids arriving
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mini heat wave booked from sunday will last a week
Can definatly live with that ! ::) hopefully get it finished and shuffle everyone around ready for the new Boer and her 2 kids arriving
Another goat? Lucky you! ;)
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This is an offer we couldnt refuse, a 100% Boer Doe with 2 doe kids as we wanted to build our 100% Boer side up
Now unless by some miracle a solid red or a spotted comes up we have reached our numbers :innocent:
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An offer you couldn't refuse.... now I must remember to use that phrase more often..
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An offer you couldn't refuse.... now I must remember to use that phrase more often..
:D That is always my way of getting new animals, and it always works ::)
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I doubt my OH would go for that one. :(
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Got loads done today , Only got the 2 pens to do and treat the outside
off to Leeds tomorrow to collect the new girls ::) They are going to have to move into one of the stables untill the shed is ready
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Where are the piccies?
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sounds like goat heaven :thumbsup:
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Everything has come to a grinding halt on the shed front !
We where flooded yesterday yet again !! :(
post and rail fencing washed away, fields coverd in silt and the 1 ton blocks on the river bank washed down river so all hands on deck doing the clean up again.
Could be worse, the neighbours got the drive washed away and it is now only big boulders with no way to get the cars out :o
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That's awful. Do you and your neighbour live on a river bed? Sounds like you do now. How long will it take to get it all sorted? :hug:
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There is a stream runs along side us that is about 6 " deep but when the water comes down off the fell after heavy rain it changes into 10 ft plus deep and instead of 8 ft wide it is about 40 ft wide :(
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Not good. Can you not built some defences against it? Does it happen often?
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We have put Gabions in , we have built walls from 1 ton blocks and nothing stops it. Its because we are at the start of the river and everything from the fells come down into that part of the river.
In the last few years it has been about 4 or 5 times a year
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That's because of the amount of rain we've had, of course. Maybe we'll have a drier summer and you'll be flood free for a while.
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A few random pics of it, still not got the pens finished though.
We are very happy with it , 3 pens inside 6ft x 8ft and you can take the partition out between 2 pens to make a big pen 12ft x 8ft even better apart from the roof everything else is recycled timber/ply sheets
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Goat heaven great job sokel :thumbsup:
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Thanks carl :thumbsup:
once it if finished the kids can go in and that frees space up for a spotted anglo and a Kalahari if I can find either :-\
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That is very impressive. I'm not going to want to put piccies of my goat shed extension when it's done now. The whole thing would fit in your shed several times over. ;D
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That is very impressive. I'm not going to want to put piccies of my goat shed extension when it's done now. The whole thing would fit in your shed several times over. ;D
We have learnt from past experiences to go big from the start , our main shed had 2 extensions done on it ! This was going to be a small shed then a small lean too extension on the stables but it sort of got bigger than planned :innocent:
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That is very impressive. I'm not going to want to put piccies of my goat shed extension when it's done now. The whole thing would fit in your shed several times over. ;D
We have learnt from past experiences to go big from the start , our main shed had 2 extensions done on it ! This was going to be a small shed then a small lean too extension on the stables but it sort of got bigger than planned :innocent:
Oh yeah.... rings a bell somehow.... ;D
A Kalahari? Wow!
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Yes a Kalahari Red Boer , its going to take some finding one but there is a few breeders have them ::)
I am on a mission to reach a breeding plan :fc:
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That is very impressive. I'm not going to want to put piccies of my goat shed extension when it's done now. The whole thing would fit in your shed several times over. ;D
We have learnt from past experiences to go big from the start , our main shed had 2 extensions done on it ! This was going to be a small shed then a small lean too extension on the stables but it sort of got bigger than planned :innocent:
I don't have the space to go any bigger than I'm going, unfortunately. It will give them almost double the space though and the extension will be able to be patitioned off if I need to separate them at any time.
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Some of the kids in the new pens ::) Note the spots ::) Typical its a billy
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Ha, they look cute - and naughty ;D
Good luck with finding a red or a spotted female :thumbsup:
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Ha, they look cute - and naughty ;D
Good luck with finding a red or a spotted female :thumbsup:
The red I would even consider a Billy kid