I know it's weird for some of you. Personally, the first time I told people I was getting goats they asked what kind and how much land I had. Really, being a city girl I found that to be a funny question. I grew up with a goat. we had almost 11 acres, but our goat didn't roam all 11 acres. So why were they asking me such a weird question.
Then a friend of mine told me to get boar goats because they have the most meat on them and they will be the best for market. The light bulb finally went off. I nicely replied "Goats are friends, not food."
Actually, when we first got our goats, we weren't even ready to buy them. It was right after my brain surgery, Eric's parents were here, and they asked about when we thought we would get the goats. We had talked about it for awhile, but I wanted to makes sure I healed from my brain surgery before getting any. Anyway, we told them we haven't seen any for sale, so we don't even know where to start. Later we got the mail and Eric looked in the "newspaper" that came that day. We looked at it every week for goats. Nothing. But that day.... Eric said "Oh no, there's an ad in here for fainting and pygmy goats." I screamed excitedly, "THOSE ARE THE KINDS I WANT!" Eric's mom replied, it's a sign, you better call. We called and they said we could come visit, so we all packed in the car and went to visit the baby goats. Since I just had brain surgery I had to wrap a scarf around my head to protect the staples from getting to hot. lol.
So, the goats got older. Old enough to bring home and I was so excited. I was feeling good from my brain surgery and overly excited to get outside and play with my goats. The gal we bought the goats from told us some tricks to make the goats like us. It took a little bit for some of them, but once we started feeding them animal crackers most of them were trained to walk, stand up, and walk to me on command.
You know the saying is you can't teach old dogs new tricks..... perhaps, but you can teach baby goats tricks!
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