Author Topic: Butting  (Read 7050 times)

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Butting
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2013, 11:45:03 pm »
When these naughty little boys got onto the roof  :o  :o  :o the only way I could get them down was to train the hosepipe on them!


I knew they were up there because two little faces appeared at my first-floor bedroom window! They were larking around, pushing and shoving  :o

johnys

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • MAZAMET TARN
Re: Butting
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2013, 02:29:58 pm »
Goats are far more intelligent than people give them credit for, their paddock leads either up into the field which at times they share with the dogs, 4 Old English Sheepdogs who have a healthy respect for the goats even though the goats are half their size being pygmy or into the garden having put a new latch on the gate to the garden, the billy had watched me so closely he almost passed me the screw driver i closed the gate after,  as i walked up the path to go into the kitchen they were behind me, thinking the catch hadnt closed i put them back which is easy as they follow me everywhere and stood and watched billy lift the catch walk out and stand infront of me as though he deserved a prize, they often come into the garden and its quite amusing to see a 35 kg dog standing at the fence looking up the lane with a female pygmy goat by his site looking up at him with almost a my big brother look on her face,the locals think i'm a bit strange but as they are French they think that anyway 

Pedwardine

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Lincolnshire
Re: Butting
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2013, 09:41:15 pm »
Fabulous picture! I want it bigger!

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Butting
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2013, 10:01:01 pm »
Jaykay, that's great picture.  How did they get up there?

Johnys, that is one smart goat you have there.  I reckon mine would upbolt their gate if they could reach it.

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Butting
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2013, 10:13:25 pm »
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Jaykay, that's great picture.  How did they get up there?

That's what I wondered to start with! Then I decided that they had jumped up onto the edge of the catslide roof, which is about 7ft, from the yard wall, which is about 5 feet. The yard wall is a drystone wall that they use like a ladder. Certainly when I put stock wire round the end of the yard wall so even if they got up there they couldn't jump onto the roof, that fettled them and they didn't appear anymore at my window  :D

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Fabulous picture! I want it bigger!
Ped, I don't know how to put photos on here apart from from Photobucket and that's the size it came. Do you know another way on an iPad?

 

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