It was an un-usual day at the farm yesterday.
Our buck Tex decided that he did not like the gate to his pen. He does not seem to like gates for some reason. He is always butting them down no matter how strong we make them he always crashes them down.
Yesterday was no exception, the gate came down and this created a farm circus.
Meanwhile, Dennis (hubby) goes out to feed the animals and by this time the animals have been out of their gate for a while. Dennis is carrying a 50 lb bag of feed down to the animals when he stops in his tracks to see the gate down. He puts down the feed to begin fixing the situation when here comes Shiro the goat's guardian dog happy to see Dennis. So happy that he also decided to go right past him and try to tour the neighbor hood. Now up until this time Shiro was quite happy to stay with the goats. Why now did he decide that he needed a neighborhood tour? Only Shiro knows for sure.
Dennis is now going after Shiro to get him back with the goats. He caught Shiro in the front yard and took him back where he belonged. He now takes feed and all the loose goats in the pasture come right up to their feed bowls and go back to where they need to be.
Oh, I forgot to tell you - Tex the goat that busted the gate and let all the goats out, NEVER left his area.
He must have been smiling from ear to ear and the havoc he created as he watched Dennis bring in all the
does back to their area. Well Tex is getting a new area of the pasture as it is time for him to be seperated from the doe's. I think this time we will put up steel posts in concrete for the gate, he seems to only like gates to butt on so I wonder if he likes hearing the chain rattle as he butts.
Well back to my story..... Now the doe's and Shiro are nicely back in their area when Dennis notices that
the main gate was left open and Princess our horse has now decided that she too wants a neighborhood tour.
By this time Dennis is really frustrated - He circles ahead of Princess (who is eating grass) and points to her pasture and yells at her to "GET BACK WHERE YOU BELONG"! You know she did!
Whew! Now all the animals are where they belong and now we can get started on fixing that gate, AGAIN!
Until next time,
Julie
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