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08/18/12, 03:04 PM
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She who waits....
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East of Bryan, Texas
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No one would believe me ...so PICS!
It is raining here (thank you!). It has been raining since 8:15 a.m.
Here are pics of my goats:
Yes, that is them, out in the pasture, grazing, in the rain!!!
I know, I know, it is not generally considered possible, but I have pictorial PROOF! Goats do not, as was previously believed, actually MELT when touched by water that falls from the sky!
I had to sneak up on them to get those pictures, for if they had seen me, they would have come running, bleating about the terrible water from the sky, demanding me to make it stop, and acting like it was BURNING them. But here, I caught them, when they thought no one was looking!
Well, until SOMEONE saw me and thought, "Mom's out! She could have treats! I must become a swift blur and get them!"
Yes, that is Truffles, at a dead run across the pasture, running up on me and my camera, just in case the camera might be edible. 
Oh, and this is for Ranger: Remember when I said Truffles was nearly as bad off as your girl when I got her? Here are a couple of clear pictures of what she looks like today:
She has slowed down....don't want to scare Mom, and the possible treats, off, now do we?
Okay, what is that clicky-beepy thing, and can I eat it?
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08/18/12, 03:10 PM
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Wow!!! you caught them in the rain???!!!! and they are not melting!!!?? That is something for that "Believe it or not" show 
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08/18/12, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: West Texas-we had rain!!
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It's been so long since it rained that they don't recognize it.
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08/18/12, 04:05 PM
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I don't see any rain, just goat grazing and a horse running. What's up with that?
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08/18/12, 04:11 PM
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She who waits....
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I didn't say it was raining HARD. Should I have turned my camera up so drops got on the lens?
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Caliann
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08/18/12, 04:56 PM
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At least it's raining, that's a start! The goats were probably just as happy about the rain as their humans were! They know sweet new green stuff is going to grow now!
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08/18/12, 05:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CJBegins
I don't see any rain, just goat grazing and a horse running. What's up with that?
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Hmmm...maybe some photo shopping is going on. Maybe we need more proof of the rain Caliann. Because we all know that goats DO melt in the rain. Do you have any other proof??? 
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08/18/12, 05:21 PM
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She who waits....
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Hmmm, besides my muddy driveways and the puddles?
KBTX - Weather - Interactive Radar
That big green/yellow/red lump just northeast of Franklin? That just passed me.
I LOVE technology!
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08/18/12, 05:49 PM
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Hehe great photos.
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08/18/12, 06:38 PM
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Mine will wade thru a rushing torrent to reach the "better" grazing. How it is better, only a goat would know.
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08/18/12, 06:44 PM
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Mud puddles! You have mud puddles? When it rains here the ground soaks it all up and give it a couple of hours and you would never know it ever rained. My cattails are dying cause the ponds are drying up, not that it hurts my feelings or anything.
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08/18/12, 06:59 PM
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She who waits....
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Wha??? You don't USE your cattails? Leaves for weaving and for stock feed, eat the immature male flowers, the young, below-water stalks, AND the roots (Ya gotta scrape that outer rind off of the roots, else it is bitter as heck) ? Plus, you can collect pollen for flour? (Actually, the roots, dried and ground, make better flour. They are high gluten.)
Send yur cattails to me. Last year, my pond went absolutely dry and all of mine died.
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Caliann
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08/18/12, 08:03 PM
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Actually, hubby and I were out walking around the pond the other day and an pulled a few leaves and brought them to the house and set them on the tail gate of the truck. I had been talking about how I could use them to weave baskets if I knew how and before I knew it dear sweet Dora had them both and took off with them and ate them except for the dried ends. I had not idea they would eat them. Hubby and I are gonna take the weed eater with the brush cutter end and got harvest us some cattails.
Do you know if they store well for winter feed? Cause 3 of 5 ponds are full of the darn things. I have never looked at them as a good thing...
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08/18/12, 08:25 PM
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Eh, all you proved was you have goats a nice pasture, blurry Truffles & Ranger. 
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08/18/12, 09:30 PM
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She who waits....
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CJ, you have to dry them well, like alfalfa, and store them dry to keep them from losing protein...in other words, just like good hay.
You can also lead your goats to the pond and they will do all of your harvesting for you. You and hubby can sit down with a nice cup of whatever you like, and the goats will clear cattails for you.
Nancy, that is NOT nice pasture. That is pasture that has been roughly treated by Mother Nature. Half of what is growing there now is junk. (Junk, as in, stuff even cows won't eat.) It USED to be nice pasture, and it will be nice pasture again.
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08/18/12, 11:02 PM
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Caliann, Truffles looks great! What a pretty girl. I told my goats about yours grazing out in the rain. Now I can't get them to stop laughing. It's getting LOUD out there!!!!
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08/18/12, 11:12 PM
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She who waits....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
Caliann, Truffles looks great! What a pretty girl. I told my goats about yours grazing out in the rain. Now I can't get them to stop laughing. It's getting LOUD out there!!!!
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They just don't want you to KNOW that they won't melt. Sneaky things they are.
Truffles darkens up in winter. Genetically, she is a "Black Agouti Cream", or smokey black bay...whichever you like. In winter, she looks chocolate, hence her name.
I could wish she was just a wee bit LESS people friendly. Every time someone steps out of the door, no matter where she is, she comes in at a dead run. No problem catching THIS girl. There are times, however, that I DON"T want a 16.3 hh mare in my back pocket.
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Caliann
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08/20/12, 12:20 AM
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Shocking! Scathing! Can't believe it! lol!!!!
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08/20/12, 01:13 AM
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How funny! I totally busted all three of mine out in the middle of a carolina thunderstorm today! Thought it was just the buckling, but then the two does popped up out of the weeds as well. Guess they finally figured it was warm enough that they would benefit from the cool rain and no bugs!
((I even caught Pippi, the oldest doe, last month three hooves ankle-deep in the"shark infested" pond to get those tender leaves that grew out of reach from "dry land"))
Mine have become far less sneaky about it.
....Perhaps they trusted me to keep their secret, huh?
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