Ivy is an ivory colored Saanan dairy goat. Sometimes called "Poison Ivy" because she gets out of the fence and waits by the front door for any passing human that might give her a treat and/or scratch. Sometimes it's the neighbor's front door. Her horns are unruly and curly. Her mammary glands are well developed and her milk is delicious. Ivy is a peach on the milkstand as well. She doesn't mind being staked out on the front lawn either. All in all she is a good goat but she does have some very strange behaviors.
For one, Ivy is a circus performer. She jumps through hoops, walks across seesaws, balances on a stool and walks on her hind legs. Walking on hind legs is something she mastered trying to steal apples out of our apple trees. The other tricks she learned playing follow the leader with Caley and Shayla.
Ivy will also think that she is a chicken, rabbit, dog, or cat depending on whose being fed or getting attention. She steals grain from inside the chicken coop, takes hay meant for the bunnies, eats "Ole Roy" dogfood given the chance and nibbles Kitty's tail if she thinks her people are not sharing the affection. Ivy has a spot right between her shoulders that is her "magic" spot. It works just like the dog's magic spot.
Now the funniest thing Ivy does is having "tea-parties" with Caley. Caley pours "tea" from a half-gallon pitcher for herself into a cup. Caley sets down the pitcher and Ivy takes a good long pull right out of the pitcher. The cake is high fiber.... leaves and grass or an occasional handful of green beans. Ivy is not fussy, and if Caley is not careful Ivy hogs it all. What's funny is Caley provides tea and cake and Ivy brings the milk.
Its not everyday that you meet a milk producing, circus performing, party animal of a goat, unless you happen to live with Ivy. She also refuses to be in the barn with the other goats so she roams loose and sleeps under the hay barn at night. By morning, she is at the front door. My son has to tie her up to get to the school bus without her. Although, I'm pretty sure she'd love school.
Ivy the Goat
