Collars

I am not the only goat around here gaining weight. In fact, a lot of our girls seem to be outgrowing their collars!

Maggie needs a bigger collar. She is one of the yearlings, and she has really filled out and grown.

Helen, another yearling, needed her collar loosened, and now she won't let the human catch her. She looks like some kind of stray without a collar.

Look who else needs a bigger collar. She's not maturing, though. She's positively fat.

Maybe I'll outgrow mine if I keep eating. Scarlet doesn't have a collar either, but she didn't outgrow hers. She lost it fighting. The human wasn't too happy with her.

Love Is...

having a human that will walk to the far ends of the property to make sure you are okay. Really, she walked all the way to the back of the Back Hill to find me.

See how far away the barn is. And she couldn't even walk straight there. She took Lily's Long Way Around.

She never did find me out there, but she said everybody was having fun. That's my daughter Pebbles spinning around so she looks all blurry.

Everyone followed the human part way back to the barn. When they got to the first crossing, she said some of them (like Penny) were staring at the neighbor's waterway because they were naughty and went in there to eat yesterday.

That's Scarlet in the middle down below. She was shut in the same time as me, but she looks nice and fat now. She obviously wasn't near as sick as me.

Guess where she found me!

Yep, I was in the barnyard the whole time. I just didn't hear her call my name because I was browsing and trying to find something green to eat. She wasn't even mad at me.

In fact, she brought me hay just like she said she would if I didn't go out to eat.

She even brought me some sweet feed.

Are you tired of seeing pictures of me eating? I think the human should take some other pictures for you to look at. I'll see what I can do.

Day Out

My first day back out with the rest of the herd was actually quite nice. I got to see my little boy Beau.

I finally got to go play my horns on one of my favorite places--the loose tin on the barn.

When everyone else went to pasture, Bambi and Beau stayed with me. They finally convinced me that it would be nice to go out and eat some grass.

I must say, we were there for just a little while when the human came to check on us, and I'd had enough.

I went back to the barnyard with her. Bambi and Beau came too, and the human was nice enough to give us some hay.

I had a little problem with the hay, but Beau was there to help his mom. Isn't he sweet?

All of this activity wore me out. I took a nice long nap. Even though it wore me out, I am so happy to be out with everyone.

I hope you all had a great day too!

I'm Back!!!!

It's Millie here. First I want to say thank you to everyone who sent me get well wishes. I've spent nearly a month just resting and eating. Hard to believe I've been away that long.

With the first full week (and longer now) of dry weather since mid-April, everybody is leaving the barnyard in the morning and not returning until suppertime in the evening. I have lonely with nobody but Sourpuss Scarlet and the obnoxious Flower and Bud for company. Look where they hang out.

The human showed me the pictures because I wanted to know where my kids were. After all, I'm still their mom. There's Bambi by Cutie. She said Beau was there too, but I didn't see him in any of the pictures.

There is my sister, Minnie behind Vixen and Angel. I hope she has been taking care of my blog and not doing anything weird to chase my adoring readers away.

They spend all day out there alternating between laying under the trees and browsing on the field where they just made hay. The human must have felt bad because she brought me some peach to eat.

She said this was the part that got bad before she got around to using them. If this is the bad part, I can only guess how yummy the good parts were.

I can't believe she gave some of my peaches to Flower and Bud. They didn't even want it. Silly kids.

The human said I'm doing well enough that she might take me out to pasture tomorrow. Oh, I hope I get to go eat some fresh green grass.

Pool and Beard

I get to lay in the pool at night because I am the herd queen.

Not everybody gets to lay in a pool. Most of them have to sleep on the ground.

But I am herd queen.

Look what happened to me in pasture today.

How humiliating to have burrs in your beard.

By the way, Bob can see with both eyes again, and he got to come visit us.

Where's Bob?

We have a cute little buddy that hangs out with us, but we haven't seen our friend Bob for a couple of days. I asked the human where he went. Look at this!!!!

He got something in his eye that he appears to be allergic to, so the human won't let him out.

He's not very happy about it. I thought I could hear him whining all the way out here once.

I must say, he isn't very photogenic. We goats are always ready to pose for our picture.

She thinks he'll get to come out tomorrow if it keeps looking better.

Who's the Nanny?

Around here, the human likes to have goat milk for bottle kids and yogurt and cheese. My sister Millie and I have been the two nannies the human could count on. Look at my udder--it is a highly efficient milk-making machine.

But she retired me. I had my babies last summer, she milked me into the fall, and then I dried up and retired.

All these other young girls think they are too delicate to be milked or just don't have the high quality milking genes of Millie and me.

I kept begging the human to let me be her milking nanny because I was born to milk. It's my chosen mission in life. She just kept telling me, "But Minnie, you're not lactating."

She wants lactating. I'll show her lactating. Through daily meditation and visualizations, I managed to achieve my goal.

How's that? I challenge any other retired milking nanny out there to do better!