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| Brad (housed beneath the hay storage trailer) and Pamela pause for this photo op. |
It hardly seems like she's had time to cycle again, but Miss Pamela is back to hanging around the stinky bucks. I'm amused to see that she's most taken by Brad Pitt--apparently she thinks he's a movie star or something. She's forever bawling in frustration, then sticking her nose into the shelter under the hay trailer where Brad's temporarily shacked up. In return, Brad smooches and moons about Pamela, fawning enough to build any doe's ego. Sometimes he'll break away to chase Harry and Hugh away from "his" gal, but it's all posturing because both Harry and Hugh are too short to court Miss Pamela successfully.
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| Brad and Pamela return to the business at hand: earnest flirtation. |
Today I had help moving some cattle panels to make temporary enclosures. It's high time to breed the does, and we'd like to put the bucks into service before they get discouraged. After all, they've been waiting for date nights for weeks and weeks now. Of course, as soon as I felt proud for making the goats hold off fall breeding until deliveries could come into the first warmth of spring, someone pointed out that the wintertime births are advantageous because the cold air keeps many germs at bay. I hope this does not mean that we can expect more kids to thrive in the warm temperatures only to decline as they battle increased incidence of parasitism and disease.
For today, Pamela alone taunts the bucks. Once they are pastured together, the breeding will be the focus of activity. I just need to space the breeding enough so that kidding season will remain manageable.
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