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ballingall

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  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Couple of video clips of our goats
« on: January 24, 2010, 10:09:36 pm »

sagehen

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Warwickshire
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2010, 10:14:21 pm »
OMG I love your goats  :love: Those with the floppy ears are soo cute, and I love the other ones too! Do you sell their milk or are they for meat or do you keep them just because ? I'd love a pygmy goat but the cat might eat it  :-\

ballingall

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Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2010, 10:19:37 pm »
We have them "just because", but also because we use the milk, and because we breed and show. We don't tend to eat them- too squeamish! Odd that I have no problem with rearing lambs for eating!


Beth

ballingall

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Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2010, 10:20:52 pm »
OMG I love your goats  :love: Those with the floppy ears are soo cute, and I love the other ones too! Do you sell their milk or are they for meat or do you keep them just because ? I'd love a pygmy goat but the cat might eat it  :-\

The cat might eat it???! What kind of cat do you have?!

sagehen

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Warwickshire
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2010, 10:23:29 pm »
LOL! A huge black tom. When he's roaming in the garden he looks like the beast of bodmin  ;D He tried stalking a pheasant once but the pheasant got the better of him!

sagehen

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Warwickshire
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2010, 10:30:43 pm »
We have them "just because", but also because we use the milk, and because we breed and show. We don't tend to eat them- too squeamish! Odd that I have no problem with rearing lambs for eating!


Beth

Ah right! Mind you most people don't really eat goat meat though. I just wish we had more land *sigh*

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2010, 11:08:10 pm »
Gorgeous goats - look like they were having fun!!  And you have that green stuff called GRASS too!!  Ours is all muddy after the snow, and its tippled down with rain all day.  Two of my goats are out, but the others are tucked up inside, waiting for Spring to arrive.

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2010, 09:11:08 pm »
I'd love a pygmy goat but the cat might eat it  :-\

See the post 'gorgeous goat'...  have a Bagot instead, slightly larger, and happy with any sized goaty pals!!

Beth, they're gorgeous, they look so pleases to out running about outside
Little Blue

marigold

  • Joined Jul 2009
  • Kirriemuir Scotland
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2010, 10:22:11 pm »
Lovely lovely goats.
 :) :) :)
kirsty

jameslindsay

  • Joined Feb 2009
  • Nr St Andrews, Fife
  • "Blossom" one of my Pygmy Goats
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2010, 01:34:25 pm »
Gosh Beth to think the last time I saw these goats they were so small. Brilliant videos, I enjoyed watching them having so much fun. Since coming back off holiday I notice a difference in Freddy and Gizmo, they seem to have sprouted big time.
« Last Edit: January 27, 2010, 01:39:36 pm by jameslindsay »

ballingall

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Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2010, 10:29:38 pm »
It's the time of year for them sprouting James. Expect more of it- especially when we get some nice new grass growing.

Took another video today in the goat shed- I plan to take one a month, so at the end of the year I can put them all together and will have video of a whole year of our goats.


http://www.youtube.com/user/Ballingallgoats#p/a/u/0/tcL6Yzjcv1c

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2010, 11:39:57 pm »
Another lovely video!!

Your goats are all gorgeous.  I wish my gang would stay still long enough to be videod!!  I think they could all be classed as a bit unruly, and the video would be full of trashed pens, and broken buckets!!

ballingall

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Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2010, 12:24:15 am »
Ours are good at trashing things and wrecking buckets too! We just bought 6 new feed bowls today, made a visit to poundstretchers! We nearly always end up using their rectangular washing up bowls for the milkers feed bowl. 


Beth

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2010, 01:09:31 pm »
we use those bowls for drinking water! easy to clean and so far not been trashed....
Little Blue

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: Couple of video clips of our goats
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2010, 11:55:03 pm »
I use washing up bowls for the most unruly ones too!!  And I have found that the rubber skips for horses feed, have so far withstood the goats too.  They are expensive, but as they have lasted, I cannot complain.

 

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