tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005382317947027783.post3304479470586023617..comments2024-03-15T00:14:25.051-07:00Comments on Brays Of Our Lives: Raising Good Goats (or raising good anythings, really)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005382317947027783.post-48902051865138504332010-01-31T13:00:55.557-08:002010-01-31T13:00:55.557-08:00Littledog, please refer to today's blog entry ...Littledog, please refer to today's blog entry for a nice rundown of your goat breed options, and then tell your humans that a goat dairy is a wonderful place to get tame wethers. In Western Washington, you can easily get free Saanens and free Saanen-Boer crosses in the spring, as the poor little goat colts are a byproduct of the dairy industry. Raising babies is all sorts of fun, but Craigslist can be a good source for older goats, too.Marnie Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684203321955050447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005382317947027783.post-83978424547147390182010-01-29T03:13:36.818-08:002010-01-29T03:13:36.818-08:00I'm so glad you are such a knowledgeable mule ...I'm so glad you are such a knowledgeable mule who can educate me about goats! I've been pestering my humans to get me a couple goats, ever since October when they bought me a big field and river of my own (along with the house that I let them live in with me.)<br />They keep telling me I can't have the goats I need until Summer or later, after they educate themselves about the right goats to get, how to care for them properly, put up the right kind of fencing, and buy ones who have been cared for and socialized properly, from a reputable place. We've been discussing eventually getting two geldings (I tell them the correct term is "wethers" which could be wrong but my humans don't know any better)because we don't care about milk, we want pet-types who are tough enough to put up with my herding practise (and correct me gently but firmly when I go too far,)be good company and not be scared of my horse when he comes to visit occasionally, eat my blackberry bushes, walk on leashes in my park, and maybe even help us by carrying my pack on hikes, fertilizing Mom's garden, or pulling Mom's cart from the garden to the compost pile.<br />Maybe you can help educate my humans and point them to good goatish web-sites (my Mom keeps finding silly ones) because I really, really REALLY NEEEED my own goat friends! and my humans keep putting up unfair roadblocks, minor things like them not knowing much about goats.littledoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15246918889252942468noreply@blogger.com