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| The goat bucks enjoy some afternoon hay. |
After "cleaning house" recently, we have a goat herd that's been thinned to more manageable numbers. No one's residing beneath the hay storage trailer at the moment--almost all of those bucks and bucklings have moved on. The black-and-white February 2010 buckling out of Jennifer, known as Todd, was the sole holdout. He's been moved into buck pen with BullyBob and his sidekicks.
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| Nigerian Dwarf buck "Lil' Lucky Todd" in the big bucks' pen. |
Check out the fresh scrape on Todd's face. That appeared after he'd been in with the big boys--most notably Brad--for a couple of hours. Luckily for Todd, Brad is almost guaranteed to escape from that pen soon, at which time he'll be relocated elsewhere and the youngest buck can catch a break. Until Brad busts out, though, Todd is giving him a wide berth. Not so long ago, Bully was the lead bully; now the pumpkin-and-white Nigerian Dwarf x Tennessee Fainter cross, Brad, is the man about town.
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| Now that he's grown, Todd the goat bears little resemblance to the man from whence he got his name. Just look at all that hair! |
The bucks in this relatively small enclosure have made a fine little "barn" for themselves. What started as simply a tarp covering a corner of the pen has been augmented with insulation panels. Plus, since it became loose around the edges, the front is no longer open--all sides are either fully closed or well-shielded by low-hanging flaps. These boys of winter catch sunlight into the afternoon, then retreat into their shelter when the sun goes down or the clouds let loose.
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