What's the funniest thing a fairgoer ever said to YOU?

Carrie C · #21 09/10/06, 02:02 PM

Ok, this is kinda cruel and DON"T EVER DO IT but...

We get the "Did you cut off their ears?" question A LOT! So, some kids had a jar of canned apricots, next to them was a lamancha, an upright eared goat (think it was an alpine) and a nubian. When a fairgoer asked them the inevitable question about the lamancha ears, the kids said, popping an apricot in their mouths, "Oh, we harvest them. See the goat with the long ears? Her ears are just about ready to be harvested, this goat with the ears standing up, we got hers a while back, and we just harvested this goat with no ears."
The superintedent put a stop to that pretty quick, which was good.

Here's a non-goat related gag pulled by fair staff! Someone got a hold of ostich eggs and put them in the llama pen (how the llamas didn't manage to step on htem, I'll never know). When the public asked about the ostrich eggs, they were told they were llama eggs!

No wonder the public is so misinformed!

~Carrie C.

xoxoGOATSxoxo · #22 09/10/06, 02:23 PM

Don't worry, I don't have any LaManchas or Nubians. Hee hee.

just kidding, I wouldn't do that!

Freeholder · #23 09/10/06, 02:29 PM

LOL! We were at the fair yesterday, mostly for the goat show (I didn't show anything this year, but am thinking about getting a doe we can show for next year), and we heard some of the comments about the LaMancha ears, too! I would think it might be a good idea to have signs up with some basic goat information on them, including the truth about LaMancha ears!

My funniest one wasn't at a fair, though. My first goat ever, about 23 years ago, was a solid brown Alpine doe with HUGE teats (looked like summer sausages -- I partly blame her for my carpal tunnel). We lived in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, and one day went to the Coast to go to the beach, taking the goats (only had two then) with us, since there wasn't anyone left at home to care for them. While walking on the beach with this huge-teated goat, a couple from California came over and asked if she was a deer!

LOL! Ostrich eggs in the llama pen -- how funny!

Kathleen

tinetine'sgoat · #24 09/10/06, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jillis

A lot of people think it is an udder. But even if they know what it is, they are amazed. I know I was! My eyes opened up wide and went out to here!

!

With that I gotta tell on my dd. We went to the Bethel Sheep Festival last weekend and there were several well endowed sheep. My dd who has limited knowledge of sheep, is used to our dairy goats and we don't keep a buck on our place says...

"MOMMA!!! LOOK AT THE BAG ON THAT SHEEP!!!"

I wanted to laugh, but couldn't so I quickly ushered past and explained that when we wethered the goats that is what we were getting rid of. Had to do a quick birds and bees, explanation in the middle of the sheep festival...

goatgang · #25 09/10/06, 07:23 PM

"Hey look at the baby llamas!" Our horned pygmy goats were in the same tent as the llamas. We had a good laugh

jill.costello · #26 09/10/06, 09:38 PM

We had to get an appraisal of our farm that we sold last year. So the appraser guy comes out; he's about as old as dirt and very mean-looking. I had spent two days sprucing up the property: weedwacking fencelines, burning old brush, cobwebbing the barn and raking the aisle, the whole bit.

I SPECIFICALLY locked the goat family in their pen with lots of hay and treats to TRY to keep them at a low roar while he was there. (nothing like the sound of women screaming/ being tortured to put a guy in a generous mood, huh?).

So, we're halfway through the "property walk" and who comes bounding up to us but little Trouble?!? (7 month Alpine doeling, horned, fawn colored). To top it off, our 6 month old Blue Heeler pup is right on her heels. Now, these two have been raised together and are great pals, so they start doing their "pal thing" which is her running, him heeling, then she turns on him and he holds her horn in his teeth and she drags him around. (he also lays down with her and licks her face, but not on this particular day...

).

So, the appraiser guy is finished, goes to his car, gets in, and looks all mean at me through the open window. He says quite sternly, "I hope you know that taking a fawn from it's mother is terribly cruel, and that you let that dog savage it is even worse!". In my open-mouthed stupor, I didn't even say anything before he drove away!

allenslabs · #27 09/10/06, 09:58 PM

He says quite sternly, "I hope you know that taking a fawn from it's mother is terribly cruel, and that you let that dog savage it is even worse!". In my open-mouthed stupor, I didn't even say anything before he drove away![/QUOTE]

Oh my gosh that is hilarious!! I got the biggest kick out of that one!!

mammawof3 · #28 09/11/06, 06:20 AM

Years ago when my kids showed 4-h, at a rather large co. fair-the "most asked" question, was always about "cutting off the Lamancha ears". One year we thought about buying those "pig ear" treats for dogs, sell them as "Lamancha ears"-to raise money for a pizza party for the kids in the barn one night of fair

but realized it would be decieving the public,who wouldn't realise the "humor" of it--and probably get animal rights after us!!

xoxoGOATSxoxo · #29 09/11/06, 05:17 PM

For the last couple of years I've been putting signs on my goats pens, 10 Basic Goat Facts, trying to squash the rumors. But some people don't read the signs and thats when I get the funny questions.

Not at the fair but in our barn that has both goats and sheep...
The neighbor girl came over to see some of the newborn kids. On the way to the kids, we passed the pen of Febuary born lambs. (This was in June...) The inevitable question, "Oh, these are the baby goats?"