What have your goats taught each other?

Goat Servant · #1 12/04/12, 05:33 PM

When it's raining the girls wont go drink real water, they catch roof drippins.
While gazing out the window I watched old Lela doing it. She is in with the young buck.
Then he shoved her aside, stood in the exact same spot, looked up & started in.

notbutanapron · #2 12/04/12, 05:45 PM

but maaaaa, roof drippins IS real waaaaater....

Homesteader · #3 12/04/12, 05:50 PM

Lucy taught Bridgette how to raise up and nibble the little bit of overhang of the tamarisks. (there is none right now so I know she didn't cause the current diahrreah that I'm getting help with on my other thread).

Now they use each other, one rests her front legs on the back of the other one and they switch. Just so funny.

andabigmac · #4 12/04/12, 05:53 PM

Tearing the tarps on the hoop houses. My booger of a Saanen started it and has passed this lovely skill onto a few of the others. When they work at it together they can destroy a $70 tarp in a few hours. It's hard to get mad at them sometimes because when they get an exceptionally long piece torn off they run around with the piece in their mouth like a victory banner. They're so proud. Then I get to chase them down to take the pieces before they eat them. Good times.

Alice In TX/MO · #5 12/04/12, 08:53 PM

I don't think this is exactly what you are asking, but.....

I have a pair of twin does. Lily fell last spring, FLAT on her belly, and lost her kid about two weeks early. She came into milk anyway, but is EXTREMELY cautious about going in and out of the milk house. She has to have one cookie on the milk stand, and you have to use another cookie to lure her out of the milk house. I didn't know this because I had been gone six months, starting right after she kidded.

Her sister kidded a couple of months later, seven hundred miles away. The two herds were combined in mid-November, and my neighbor and I have been milking our goats at separate times, but the same facility. I'm going out of town, and she's going to milk for me for a few days. As I started the explanation of how Aster had to have TWO cookies, one on the milk stand, one to lure her out of the milk house, my friend started nodding her head.

What are the odds of these twins developing the same behavior pattern when separated by 700 miles?

Goat Servant · #6 12/04/12, 09:08 PM

Bwahaha Alice! Your lines must have communication waaay beyond human understanding.

A friend who has a dairy of Obers has a doe who has to have a paper towel on the stand along with normal grain. Her daughters do too.