Itty Bitty Hooves

Fences and Barns, neverending work

I’m keeping all the goats in their pens again today. Just one more day of relaxing without having to worry about checking them every hour or so, and retrieving them from escape. I think I have all the holes fixed except one and I know what I have to do to fix that. It won’t really be hard but it is slow going in the heat we’ve been having. It did rain a bit yesterday. Not long though and once it was over the humidity was deadly. I also put the fence by the milking barn back the way it was last week. I’d tried pulling it out and letting them have access to the inside of the barn but that just wasn’t working out. The feed and hay, and the actual milking stanchion was blocked off in a stall by itself so they couldn’t get in there, but the problem was, neither could I with fifteen goats all crowded around it. Not without a hassle anyway. So I pulled the fence line back again and it’s much easier to feed and milk that way. I think the cat’s happy about it too. One of our barn cats had her kittens in that barn and she wasn’t all that happy about all the goats milling about in there.