If the geese don't eat it all this summer, reckon I'll pull some of my 'seaweed', aka pond weeds, and see if the goats go gaga over it!
AAARGH - it's all Cyngbaeld's fault
Some of you may remember a little while ago - I was talking about the cost of keeping animals, importing food, and their practicalilty as survival resources.
Cyngbaeld very kindly suggested I should feed them seaweed. Spurred on by what seemed like a good idea, I went to the beach, collected some vraic, and washed and dried it and tried it on the goats.
Some of them turned their noses up - two of them went absolutely nuts over it, fighting to get to it and tearing it out of my hand.
One of the two is one of my older nannies who I have long suspected had a deficiency of some sort - all well and good.
The other one was my little breech baby from last year. He has never been quite "right" and I have always suspected that either I damaged him some way heaving him out, or he was deprrived of oxygen in the delay at birth. Either way he has always been very subdued, always a bit hunched up and coat (longish coat) fluffed up.
So he went mad for the seaweed. And hasn't been the same goat since. He has bright eyes, bounces around like his twin sister, and is so full of mischief he is being a total pain in the rear end!! If there is going to be a goat jumping out, in the feed room, breaking into the veg garden, guess who it is almost guaranteed to be?? Who knew a simple bucket of seaweed could cause SO much trouble LOL
Thanks Cyngbaeld - I am working on a steady supply of seaweed for them now
hoggie
Cyngbaeld very kindly suggested I should feed them seaweed. Spurred on by what seemed like a good idea, I went to the beach, collected some vraic, and washed and dried it and tried it on the goats.
Some of them turned their noses up - two of them went absolutely nuts over it, fighting to get to it and tearing it out of my hand.
One of the two is one of my older nannies who I have long suspected had a deficiency of some sort - all well and good.
The other one was my little breech baby from last year. He has never been quite "right" and I have always suspected that either I damaged him some way heaving him out, or he was deprrived of oxygen in the delay at birth. Either way he has always been very subdued, always a bit hunched up and coat (longish coat) fluffed up.
So he went mad for the seaweed. And hasn't been the same goat since. He has bright eyes, bounces around like his twin sister, and is so full of mischief he is being a total pain in the rear end!! If there is going to be a goat jumping out, in the feed room, breaking into the veg garden, guess who it is almost guaranteed to be?? Who knew a simple bucket of seaweed could cause SO much trouble LOL
Thanks Cyngbaeld - I am working on a steady supply of seaweed for them now
hoggie
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Sea vegetables would play a much larger role in our diet if we didn't live pretty much at the geographical centre of the continent. As it is, I will admit to occasionally enjoying dulse, and a serious addiction to nori.... and I like it in my rice
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