Color Change from Baby to Adult

[parrotman]

Someone mentioned a color change from small kid to adult. Here is Mary Ruth, she's my only moon spotted doe.

[dozedotz]

Pretty girl (love her name!) and pretty setting for the photo. Did she wander out there on her own? Around here the bucks will go forth no matter what....unless it is really pouring down rain...but the gals like to stay warm and dry.

[parrotman]

Thanks. Here, the goats go on walks almost daily in the woods regardless of the weather. All I have to say to them is "let's walk" and they will leave their pasture barn and head to the gate that we use to enter the woods. Even on days that it's drizzling rain they will go. They don't like, and neither do I, like to walk in serious rain. Snow doesn't bother them at all. I guess it's conditioning.
They like to walk so much, they will leave newly put out hay just to go walking and getting to eat whatever they want.

[dozedotz]

Good for them! Our girls are such "ladies" that they will only move out of the comfort of the shelter if they think that there is food...a great motivator! Here is a photo of two of the girls and one of the bucks carefully following an open path along the fence to see if Mac wants to give them treats...lol. I should add that the buck will plunge right out into the snow...but not if the girls choose a different way (he is still hoping someone has not been bred).

[parrotman]

Great picture...frail, delicate flowers that they are! I'm impressed that your goats haven't killed the trees in their pasture.

[dozedotz]

Oh, they have killed a few! Believe me! The big, beautiful oaks inside their shelter enclosures are wrapped!!! The woods where they are in this photo is about 20 acres of mixed oak, hickory, sumac and tons of blackberry, multiflora rose, etc. They love the woods! They go after particular trees...young pine is a favorite, but leave the rest. We also rotate them to other areas. Being such dainty ladies it may be due to wanting shade in the summer! lol

[parrotman]

My goats "used" to have trees in their pasture. Granted, almost all were pines and I did have them wrapped. That was worthless here. They nibbled right through the wire. When I figured out that cattle panels were the trick, it was too late.
Even though they don't have trees any longer, the outside is surrounded by trees so shade is still available depending upon what time of day.

[dozedotz]

I think I used the wrong word "wrapped." Below is photo showing how we fence off some of the big oaks in their paddocks to keep the shade in those areas SAFE!!

[parrotman]

Aaaahhhh! That's exactly what I did after it was too late. Had I done that from the start, the pines would still be standing and shading them.

[Frosted Mini's]

Mine could care less if it's snowy or currently snowing, they are right out in it, especially if there is food out there!

[dozedotz]

Ok, OK...so, mine are wimps...My husband told me we should make them walk and not carry them until they were 6 months old...but you know how it is when your children move far away and take their children with them. It's a grandma thing...

[LearningLife]

Originally Posted by dozedotz

Ok, OK...so, mine are wimps...My husband told me we should make them walk and not carry them until they were 6 months old...but you know how it is when your children move far away and take their children with them. It's a grandma thing...

Ours won't walk in the snow, either. Or the rain. Or a heavy fog. They aren't even very fond of walking in a heavy morning dew. They have precious, precious hooves, ya know. It's hard to maintain their true glory with muddy hooves.

[Doug Hodges]

Mine will go anywhere I am. They don't care if it's raining or snowing.

[dozedotz]

Thank you, Learning Life...much appreciated honesty and support for the cringing female population here.
Douglas, you are a brute AND your wife has to shear you! Just remember we delicate little old ladies can pack a wallop when necessary...even in the snow...or on ice skates...