Itty Bitty Hooves

Glutton For Punishment

I was just sitting here thinking earlier today about how suddenly we got back into the goats. Not really thinking about it with regret, but I do have to laugh at the fact that just last year I was saying, ‘no more hay eatting animals’. I wouldn’t care if hay was easy to come by, or not getting more expensive every year. Goats can be a better alternative than most hay eatting livestock as they can do quite well on weedy vegetation that would make most farm stock sick. They can’t live on it completely however, unless you have a vast acerage with year-round grazing. We have pretty good pasture areas for goats. Lots of trees and weeds which they love a lot more than grass. They’re not grazers so much as they are browsers. They like a ‘little bit of this, and a little bit of that’ and just adore posion ivy and other noxious weeds other animals wouldn’t dream of touching. After this last week of escapes and extreme heat, and worry about hay shortages and drought even though we’ve gotten a fair amount of rain this month and are no longer in drought danger, so much of the country is, and it’s such a tenuous balancing act, I think I may need drug rehabilitation myself before too long. I don’t use drugs, and I’m not much of a drinker as a rule, but these critters could really drive you to it. Certainly I’m begining to think I’m just a glutton for punishment.