OT: Update - Dotter with the Shakes CURED

kruser · Mar 12, 2011

Pretty impressed with the 14 year old daughter at a sale today (first time with her own number).
Knew what she wanted to pay and didn't go over - course it was her money! She kinda wanted a pygmy goat BUT they went high.

Didn't buy anything but coffee and then dinner for us - BUT got a THANKS DAD on the way home -Priceless!

RayP(MI) · Mar 12, 2011

Far better off with rabbits than a pigmy goat. Those goats are like a "terrible twos" kid. Constantly in trouble!

MarkWV · Mar 12, 2011

good pics, remember how my daughters wanted bunnies, bought at fair built hutches, picked one up one day and it was spinning feet and nails, little bite to prove the point and then they figured out they are animals. Looks like she is doing good, ALWAYS support back feet first, Mark

kruser · Mar 12, 2011

Now wait a minute - was going to have them pymies working on the Multi Rose bushes!

Don-Wi · Mar 12, 2011

We had a few pygmy gotas when I was younger. The first one we got was named Violet, but we called her violent because whenever a cat would go near her, she'd get her horns underneath it and send it flying. Was kinda amuzing to watch.

The billies were the worst part.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Fawteen · Mar 13, 2011

Goats yes. Pygmies no. Most ornery, trouble-making, escape prone animals I've ever owned.

When I lived in SC, I had a full-size mixed breed goat that cleaned up the most gaw-doffle mess of vines and canes you ever saw and thought she was a dog.

When I came home to Maine I had a couple of acres that needed clearing and remembered that goat, so I bought a couple of pygmies, thinking "a goat is a goat". Wrong...

Never ate a bite out of the area I needed cleared, always getting in the chicken coop and eating their pellets or through the fence and eating the neighbor's garden, or worse, MY garden.

Gave them away. Feller that come to get them says "You DO know I'm going to barbecue them, right?"

I said "You shove the stick up their butt, I'll go get some matches."

buickanddeere · Mar 13, 2011

My kids have done the bunny thing too. Some of the little rips are running loose outside. I didn't mind them eating oats from the shed in the winter. Eating the wife's flowerbed shrubs has taken the cute away.
Until recently my daughter was raising chinchillas in her brother's for the local petshop. The exercise wheel noise in the middle of the night caused a relocation.

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Mar 13, 2011

I had rabbits when I was a kid. Had a dutch I got at the age of 8 live 13 years.

glennster · Mar 13, 2011

jim , if shes still looking for goats, i can talk to one of my customers. i think they have 30 or 40. dunno if they are pygmy goats or not. what is she lookin to spend on a dozen or so??? maybe i can swing a deal with him. howells could prolly use a dozen goats or so too. they kind of look like a horse from far away, nancy would never notice!!!!

IlliniJohn · Mar 13, 2011

Looking Good!
Does she need any hutches? We've got a couple left over from our kid's having rabbits 10 years ago or so.
We're near East Peoria

PeteTheRookie · Mar 13, 2011

Fawteen,
Noticed you too moved from SC to ME. We lived in Mt. Pleasant for a spell from 2003 to 2008. In York in Southern Maine now(extended suburb of Boston, lol).
But I am interested in getting goats. Was told there is a breed that likes to eat poison ivy?

Is that true? I am sooo alergic to Ivy and have so much on my property. Tried to kill it and it just won"t die.

Pete

OP, one of my teenage sons wants to know who that beautiful young lady is?!

glennster · Mar 13, 2011

pete, i'm not fawteen.....hes a lot younger and hansommer (is that a word?)any hoo, for your poison ivy, mix in a 2 1/2 gallon pump sprayer, 8 oz generic roundup 41% (hi yield killzall from farm and fleet is lower cost) and 8 oz amine 2-4d, and several drops of dish soap, and fill the rest with water. spray on the poison ivy when actively growing. it will kill it dead in about 1 to 2 weeks. the dish soap acts as a surfactant and gets it to stick to the waxy leaves on the poison ivy.

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