Queen Mum
N.E.R.D.
Houdini is a Mini LaMancha.
He stands about 14 inches tall at the shoulder. He weighs about 30 pounds.
He is named Houdini because he is known to be able to escape any fence, any pen, at will. He loves to roam around. He's a bit wild and a free spirit.
Mama is a HUGE Alpine dairy goat. She stands 36 inches plus at the shoulder and weighs in excess of 250 pounds. She is a herd queen of exceptional intelligence. But she is gentle and sweet to people and very wise. She is a fierce herd queen and a firm disciplinarian. Mama has a fancy registered name, but is called Mama, because she loves having babies and when not bred will steal a baby from a neglectful mother goat (by force if need be) and nurse it (coming immediately into milk). She mothers everything. Puppies, children, baby deer... She will defend her herd to the death and has nearly given her life to that cause twice.
Brownie, is Mama's great grand daughter. She is part 1/4 Nubian, 1/4 Alpine and 1/2 Oberhauslie. She lives in the paddock with Mama. She lost her mother to a bear when she was a wee baby. She weighs about 100 pounds and is 6 months old. She's about 30 inches tall and has a long way to grow.
One day, Houdini wandered into Mama's paddock and decided that he liked the food in there. And he was smitten with Mama. Well, regular meals, plenty of food. No competition for the does. What virile buck wouldn't find satisfaction in that paddock. And Mama's paddock was surrounded by the pens of the only other doe pens where the does weren't bred yet. Girls everywhere. Ripe for the picking. The only problem is that all those does are Boer goats.
They stand at the fence when they are in heat and call seductively to Houdini and wag their fluffy little tails at him. And he puffs up his little chest and stands on a tire and blows raspberries and makes eyes at them for HOURS!
But the real object of his most fond affections, wants NOTHING to do with him!
Mama rolls him down the hill if he comes anywhere near her. Poor Houdini.
He stands about 14 inches tall at the shoulder. He weighs about 30 pounds.
He is named Houdini because he is known to be able to escape any fence, any pen, at will. He loves to roam around. He's a bit wild and a free spirit.
Mama is a HUGE Alpine dairy goat. She stands 36 inches plus at the shoulder and weighs in excess of 250 pounds. She is a herd queen of exceptional intelligence. But she is gentle and sweet to people and very wise. She is a fierce herd queen and a firm disciplinarian. Mama has a fancy registered name, but is called Mama, because she loves having babies and when not bred will steal a baby from a neglectful mother goat (by force if need be) and nurse it (coming immediately into milk). She mothers everything. Puppies, children, baby deer... She will defend her herd to the death and has nearly given her life to that cause twice.
Brownie, is Mama's great grand daughter. She is part 1/4 Nubian, 1/4 Alpine and 1/2 Oberhauslie. She lives in the paddock with Mama. She lost her mother to a bear when she was a wee baby. She weighs about 100 pounds and is 6 months old. She's about 30 inches tall and has a long way to grow.
One day, Houdini wandered into Mama's paddock and decided that he liked the food in there. And he was smitten with Mama. Well, regular meals, plenty of food. No competition for the does. What virile buck wouldn't find satisfaction in that paddock. And Mama's paddock was surrounded by the pens of the only other doe pens where the does weren't bred yet. Girls everywhere. Ripe for the picking. The only problem is that all those does are Boer goats.
They stand at the fence when they are in heat and call seductively to Houdini and wag their fluffy little tails at him. And he puffs up his little chest and stands on a tire and blows raspberries and makes eyes at them for HOURS!
But the real object of his most fond affections, wants NOTHING to do with him!
Mama rolls him down the hill if he comes anywhere near her. Poor Houdini.