Woke up this morning to heavy snow - not ideal when you have to tow a large horse trailer 40 miles each way. Anyway, we slid down the lane, and made it to the main road without mishap. Conditions a lot better where the goats lived, not as much snow. Frank one of the goats was already waiting in the car park for us. One of the yard ladies came out with a bag of bread, and the other goats followed her from the field, over the yard and across the car park to the trailer, and they all walked in, no leads or anything!! Only thing was, as they passed my OH, he must have counted, cos he said there was 5 instead of 4. So, there are 4 large Toggenburgs and one large Alpine.
Got home, and slithered back down the lane in the snow, not nice with a trailer behind. Goats had travelled well, and did not seem too bothered. Put a rope round Franks neck, and the other four jumped from the trailer, and followed us down the field, over the stream to their new home. Put them in the big field shelter and pulled the gate across. Could not believe it when 10 minutes later Frank was outside!!
Gate still across - he had climbed over by the looks of it. We had put a baton across above the gate, and he had squeezed through, so added another baton of wood.
The owner said Frank was the trouble maker ....hmm. They had been reared on a petting farm, and where they were now was open to the public, so they are well used to people, and very friendly.
must be so different here for them .....no lights on round the yard, and very quiet with not many people here. They are next to the river and its pitch dark. I suppopse they will get used to it. They ate their tea, so cannot be too worried about the move.