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Old 08/04/13, 12:01 AM
 
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Put their lazy butts to work!
Today I found a picture of a goat powered washing machine! Now I want one!
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Old 08/04/13, 05:57 AM
 
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I agree with putting them to work especially the billies. It would give them something else to think about.

The washer looks like fun I hate doing laundry almost as much as dishes. now I am going back to my coffee
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Old 08/04/13, 10:05 AM
 
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hmm one thinks problem would be here it would cost more to feed them than to use the power to go traditional
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Old 08/04/13, 10:24 AM
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Yes, but if you're already feeding them, you may as well get more back out of your investment?
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Old 08/04/13, 11:36 AM
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Oh my I need one! hehehehe Would go well on the front porch with the other menagerie walking around!!
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Somehow I can't reach far enough into my imagnination to picture one of my goats actually keeping going long enough to wash a sock. And the amount of effort to get her in that thing- it would be exhausting.
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I LIKE IT~~ But....you'd need to keep a bowl of grain just out of reach at the end of the treadmill to keep 'em going
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Put a buck in the contraption with a doe in heat just out of reach. Of course that would probably wear the clothes out AND make them stink to high heaven!
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BTW, I believe the picture is from the Museum of the Pioneer in Minden, Nebraska. A delightfully eccentric, eclectic, smorgasbord of stuff beyond the imagination!
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Old 08/05/13, 03:39 AM
 
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Close Clover! It's from a museum in St Augustine. It's from the early 1800's. I think it would be great for an off the grid homestead. I imagine I could get my son to walk on it too.
I think the best way to get the goats on it would be to tell them it's off limits! I told them to stay away from the trampoline and they run and jump and play on it everyday. :/
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Old 08/05/13, 08:31 AM
 
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I have old magazines and books showing those treadmills in use with large dogs, goats, sheep, calves and large ones for horses. There's a horse powered one being made today that powers a woodsplitter.

I'm satisfied with my goats and sheep defoliating the brush and weeds in my rough pasture I'm trying to bring back. Fencing is a bear, but the results are promising.
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Old 08/05/13, 09:35 AM
 
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Mine ate the cedar siding off my house and ate a whole through my garage door... Mine need a job because apparently eating blackberries isn't enough for them..
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