[salopman]

Nice couple of pieces on Goats tonight - a Goat Farm in Kent - mainly Toggenburgs by the looks, nice lady lookin after them, and then a piece on Buttercup Goat Sanctuary.
Take a look .... it will be on I-Player if you missed it.
p.s. and they say Goats dont graze.... those Toggs certainly were .....

[salopman]

http://www.elliesdairy.blogspot.com/

This is the goat farm Matt Baker visited ....

[jaykay]

It was good - nice to see goats on for a change. The goat sanctuary was amazing when they let the all run out for treats at the end 

[plumseverywhere]

It was lovely wasn't it? such a nice piece.  You could tell Matt had grown up with goats by the way he was around them and they mentioned that he had goats due to his sister suffering with eczema as a child so another whammy about the benefits of goats milk for our health again - love it!

Mine graze, Puffin especially. They don't close graze like the woolly madthings do but they have a good nibble!

[wytsend]

Mine graze too....that is after doing hedge maintenance duties !!!!!!

[WaltDisneyWorld]

It was lovely to see all those goats and looking so well. Does anybody know what Matt fed to them at the end? It looked to me like it may have been bread, if so, I was wondering if it would be okay to feed to mine (always worried about upsetting them by giving something new).

[plumseverywhere]

I was wondering that too WDW! I could see it was something white but not a clue what it was.

I do give mine a little bit of bread crust, toast, biscuits as treats and they've always been fine. all things in moderation I guess so long as they have their recommended staple diet there.

[chickenfeed]

he was feeding the bark from the copiced chestnut fields featured earlier in the show.

bread is fine if feed dried in the oven first as a treat.

[salopman]

He gave them the bark but right at end julia challenged him to feed from the bucket and that definitely was crumbled bread - you could tell - where he scattered it on floor and they all came running lol, Its also worth remembering the other  major goat sanctuary in Cheshire  see  http://www.thegoatsanctuary.org/  the lady there works tirelessly and she works in conjunction with Buttercups -

[plumseverywhere]

It did look more bread-like at the end. the copiced bark was browner.
Good to know there are sanctuaries around    we have a farm animal sanctuary up the road here but she's just got the one goat, mainly sheep.

[henchard]

Personally I find Countryfile so cringe worthy as to be almost unwatchable and I try and avoid it (and in particular John Craven) as much as possible. Unfortunately I tend to see bits of it whilst waiting for the weather forecast. Other than perhaps 'Adam's farm' it is just light entertainment for mostly urban dwellers.

There is currently a thread going on one of the main farming forums about the last one (featuring goats and snails) being the worst ever.

The only about the countryside that I can think of right now that is worse than Countryfile is the Archers which should be sent to the knackers yard immediately. Both are truly dire IMHO.

[plumseverywhere]

   we used to live in Archers country.  Inkberrow, where it was all set - in fact The Bull pub has served us many a pint.
I see your sentiments about Countryfile but its nice easy viewing while I do the ironing on a Sunday afternoon/evening. I was pleased to see goats featured as they get little air space on National TV and as someone who runs a business based around goats milk, I received lots of texts and emails from people saying "oh I never realised just how intelligent goats are..." and talking about the benefits of goats milk health wise so it seems many urban dwellers were educated and that in itself must be a good thing when you think about how many children grow up these days not actually knowing about where their food comes from? if the adults are educated a little they will pass it on - hopefully 

[tizaala]

Countryfile used to be about serious farming issues , now it is aimed at cannoeists ,walkers , offroaders and mountain bikers , John Craven's and the blonde bimbette's animal rights agenda seems to be the main slant of the program now and viewing figures must be on the decline because of this. As long as the producers can get the message across that anything outside of a towns and cities can be treated as a huge leisure area for the masses , then they are happy with the crap they are broadcasting.

[Lesley Silvester]

Well, I watched it on iplayer - for the first time, I might add - and I enjoyed it, especially the goat bits.  Plan on watching it again.

I am also a great Archers fan.

[jaykay]

I can't watch it either - glad I'm not the only one!

But I'd liked seeing the goats and watched it specifically this time to see them, fortunately I got the timing spot on (by accident) so didn't have to sit through anything else