Itty Bitty Hooves

Getting Used To It

Can you tell I’m ready for a vacation? It’s been a long late winter, and freaky spring, and now hot summer coming on. Just the other day I put my youngest kid (goats) in with the slightly older kids just to save myself a few extra footsteps during feeding times. They’re not terrifically happy with the idea. Not only are they not happy about it, they’re vocal about it and now they’re right outside my office window. It’s not that they’re doing any damage to each other. There’s nothing violent going on, goats just don’t like change. It takes them a long time to adjust to new herd situations. It probably doesn’t help that it’s raining today–something else goats don’t like at all. So they’re all stuck inside the houses together. Sort of a crammed in way of ‘getting to know you’ up front and personal. They’ll settle down, but it probably won’t get any quieter–the two very youngest kids are Nubians and have the biggest mouths on the planet. It’s just that before they were far enough away from the house that it wasn’t a constant chorus of come out here and play with me–resuce me. I guess I’ll be the one that has to ‘get used to it’.