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Thank you all for giving me sage advice and the courage to do the right thing! Fran is leaving tomorrow! 😘

I want to see your new Ram! My Boof is also a total sweetheart (dorper x damara)! Fran is leaving tomorrow!!! I’ve convinced the original owners to take her back!! The photos are my Boof and his lady lamb!

Welcome! I’m a newbie here as well! I look forward to hearing about your animals.

Really good points and thank you! I totally ‘get’ what you are saying! A hard lesson for a newbie but it makes perfect sense!

There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that they took a lend of us!! And the thing that upsets me most is that they knew that we were newbies just wanting to love the goats and have our grandkids come to stay and enjoy our zoo! We can't let the grandies anywhere near her! I would love to get...

Again, that makes perfect sense. As you can see we went low near her head but on the underside. And yes ... VERY persistent pains in the butt!!! lol She is also a bully with the other animals so we were trying to make her look a little less scary to them by putting underside but that doesn't...

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense re heat exchange i.e. that she will ultimately be better if she can get to water or shade rather than being stuck in the fence! I think it is definitely worth a try. That's the brilliant thing about these forums .. you are not only getting theory but the...

Trying to picture the V! do you mean with V hanging down under their neck?

Although I see on the photo I posted she was 4th from bottom row!!! 😂.. she is usually kneeling when we find her!

Hello and thanks for your reply!! We attached with a cross cross of cable ties on both sides. We had thought of duck tape but had read that goats use their horns for heat exchange and here in the tropics we have very hot summers so went with the cable ties. She is very small and so far she is...

My kids are terrified about who I will ‘gift’ Fugly to in my will! I’m super pleased that Sunshine has blended well with your family! Fugly would ‘chase’ my three girls to bite their feet but loved my two sons!! He starts the car for us (although doesn’t make it sound like car is in good health...

Fran gets her head stuck in the fence constantly!! All our fencing is new and we can’t afford to supplement with electric fencing or chicken wire .. we have tried removing all vegetation within reach on the other side of the fence but she just keeps doing it! We sometimes have to get her head...

Thank you for the lead on The Old Ram! It straight away made me think of a wonderful Australian movie ‘Rams’!! I think people love German shepherds or they don’t and are scared of them! I know that ‘grin’ 😂 .. all of mine over the years have been so gentle and caring.. we have one elderly dog...

Fugly is very picky about who he hangs out with and has turned nasty since we built the aviary for him! He has always been outside but always close to lots of people traffic! He has quite an amazing vocabulary! It’s hilarious but when wild cockatoos come in to feed (3 regulars) .. he talks to...

Fugly is a sulphur crested as well! We’ve had him since he was a baby who was kicked out of the nest in 1994! They, and black cockatoos are everywhere here! He has an aviary next to the chooks. He loves them! The second photo is my other parrot.. a hand raised lorikeet (scaley breasted / lutino...

What’s a ‘ house bun’?? Bunny?? 😂

Welcome from Australia! I’m just new around here also but already learning lots! We have a small acreage with 3 sheep, 4 goats, 9 ducks, 2 chooks and lots of other assorted animals! Ours are just love machines .. Geoff and I also combine that with work from home as part time university...

Hi Daisy!! Lovely to meet someone in my own time zone!! I’ve just come back from visiting my daughter in Rawson and there sure is some beautiful sheep out in that Gippsland area!! Those beautiful green rolling hills in Victoria must be a real treat for sheep!

Thanks! I did read yours were herding dogs and then had a brain fade! Yes, the breeder trains LGDs .. your response made me feel nostalgic for my old German shepherd who would herd everything .. my 5 kids when they were young .. the ducklings to a point where it was hard for their mum to get...

Hi Bella .. gorgeous goats! I have two does that have the same access to food as each other .. free range / pellets / lucerne .. and I’m always concerned one is too fat and the other is too skinny! The skinny one is the Queen, so she gets all the food she wants!! 😂. .. my vet’s first question...