NH Homesteader's journal

[NH Homesteader]

Looking out the window this morning- a chicken got in the goat pen. One of the doelings is trying to headbutt it. The chicken is puffing up and pecking at her. This goes on for a few minutes.... Then the buckling (wetherling?) flies in from nowhere and starts humping. Yay farm life?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Then the buckling (wetherling?) flies in from nowhere and starts humping.

LOL - but what's he humping - the chicken or the doeling??

 

[NH Homesteader]

The doeling, but the chicken scattered pretty fast and didn't give him a chance lol, or he might have gone after her too. Boy goats are creepers.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Boy goats are creepers

And that's the truth!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Three of the kids were in with Clifford yesterday and he was behaving himself. Maybe the wethers will be ok with him after all? We'll find out!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

They may be...I've had bucks that were great with wethers....and some that weren't, lol!

 

[sumi]

Those pigs look great and your goats are too funny!

 

[baymule]

Boys will be boys.......

 

[NH Homesteader]

Found a pygmy buckling for sale... Waiting for pics of his sire today. His dam looks tiny (but stocky) but maybe that's just pygmies... What's the breed standard for height @frustratedearthmother?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Kinda hard to explain because it changes with age. Much easier to look at the chart:

http://www.npga-pygmy.com/resources/conformation/BREED STANDARD June 2015.pdf