Whoever said Goats don't like rain........LIED!!

MisFitFarm · #1 05/02/08, 03:34 PM

So here we are, storms all over and around us. It's pouring rain like 40 days and 40 nights. Beth is taking a shower, and as the shower stops I hear "Ummm, Mom? I think the goats might be out........" At the back of the goat pen, where the water runs down the hill and makes every thing a constant mudslide, we had several fence posts FLATTENED, and a path of destruction equivalent to a major swarm of locusts, leading through the woods, around the pen and.......right up to the front porch! They had left one of the does UNDER the fence, waiting patiently for us to show up and rescue her. They finished up their mad salad chewing spree with a dessert of sweet feed. Luckily there wasn't much there, or we'd have some sick goats.

Before you ask, these goats have plenty to eat, browse, grains and otherwise. But you know it's always best on the other side!

We are sopping wet and so are the goats. We're mad because we're sopping wet, the goats are mad because they got caught!

deafgoatlady · #2 05/02/08, 03:59 PM

OH LOL! I know that my goats HATES rain. They freaked out! Oh my gosh. I dont know why. I guess ur goats dont care.. LOL.

EasyDay · #3 05/02/08, 04:02 PM

We didn't lie... you just have WEIRD goats!

Ours think rain surely must be acid.... one drop and they hightail it for the barn, hollering all the way.

southerngurl · #4 05/02/08, 04:04 PM

Mine won't even step with water or mud, unless they absolutely have to.

MisFitFarm · #5 05/02/08, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by EasyDay

We didn't lie... you just have WEIRD goats!

I won't deny that!

TennesseeMama23 · #6 05/02/08, 05:32 PM

Were they raised without shelter? Our bucks don't have more than a tree for shelter and they don't mind rain.

fellini123 · #7 05/02/08, 05:39 PM

Our goats have beautiful shelters. Nice and big and dry and well ventilated, everything is good. BUT will the goats go in if it is during the day and raining?? Nope they stand in the field and look up into the sky.. or lay under the trees. Silly goats. But they will NOT eat wet feed!!!

Alice in Virginia

MisFitFarm · #8 05/02/08, 05:45 PM

Well, I don't know how they lived before they came here, but they have a wonderful shelter here, and we've seen them hightail it inside when it rains, but not today! They'll make liars out of us every chance they get!

EasyDay · #9 05/02/08, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by southerngurl

Mine won't even step with water or mud, unless they absolutely have to.

After our last snow melted, there was still a shady spot in front of the barn door that had snow. Our ND doe wouldn't come out of the barn until I put straw on the snow in a trail to their yard gate. Geeeez! They train us pretty well, don't they?

MisFitFarm · #10 05/02/08, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by EasyDay

After our last snow melted, there was still a shady spot in front of the barn door that had snow. Our ND doe wouldn't come out of the barn until I put straw on the snow in a trail to their yard gate. Geeeez! They train us pretty well, don't they?

Yep, that about sums it up!

Goat Servant · #11 05/02/08, 09:30 PM

And you calls yourself EASYDAY? What else do you do for your little royal pains...I mean royality

To be honest I would probably do the same for mine.

Misfit thats way too funny. Mine hate the rain. Goats never fit in our preconceived boxes anyway.

note* hope this doesnt get posted 6 times in a row, experiencing technical difficlutzy

CookingPam777 · #12 05/03/08, 08:26 AM

Mine know when it's about to rain and hightail for the barn. If you don't know weather or not it will rain ask the goat it will know. I go out and get these peekaboo ahhhhh rains coming eyeballs peeking out of there little barn.