Can't find my duck!

Little Bit is gone. I have looked everywhere with the help of friends and we can't even find a feather. I'm so sad. I kept this guy in the house all winter. He ate dinner last Thanksgiving at our table and begged like one of the dogs. He was inside every night while the coyote terrorised the rest of our feathered family. He was a protected pet and finally became a friend to Morticia and drucilla whom he followed around. I'm so sorry that I couldn't save him. He is truly missed. I'm certain that Bernard ate him. Every single feather.
If that ain't bad enough, One of my baby geese, now all grown up has decided to attack a duck. He got a hold on Morticia and dragged the poor thing to the pond and tried to drown it. When any event affects the herd they all make so much racket that you instinctively come running and lucky I did. Though my friend Norah was the victor as she shed her shoes and jumped into the pond. I'm still chuckling about that.

OMG! The dog ate the duck!

It's hard to believe! I think Bernard ate Lil Bit. Yesterday I was so sick to my stomach that I didn't pay attention when Bernard came in dripping blood. I had him to the vet last month over his ears bleeding and the vet said he had bad fleas though on advantage; He was under dosed and the vet gave me some pills. When I saw the blood, I gave him his next months dose. This morning, I noticed that Lil Bit is missing. I have looked all over the yard and down the ravine. My legs are scratched and I think I walked through some poison ivy but found no duck. Remembering yesterday, I just wonder..... I'll keep looking but I'm very concerned. My friend Norah said she seen Lil Bit yesterday but today I think she made a mistake. I can't expect my friends to be able to tell one duck from another.

Amazing goat

Margaret has such a personality! She loves to run about just like a dog. She's curious when someone comes to the door and will get up and check out the guest. but won't tolerate them for long. She is truly a one person goat. She doesn't like anyone but me. She attacks everyone and most people really want to love her. If you just ignore her, then she might not come over and ram you. She's not discrete either. She comes at you with the single most purpose to drive her horns into you. She doesn't like anyone. The kiji ad I got her from said "no children" but what i think it meant was nobody but you. when it is that time she will claim the couch just to keep Bernard off it. But when it is sleepy time, I don't think she cares where she hangs her hat.

She literally fell asleep in my boot! Shorty after taking this picture, it started to pour and she got up and closed the door.

Margaret is insane!!!

Was off line for a few days as my little wire eater, Margaret chewed her way through my living room. I have been trying to relocate her to the basement and into her new pen; if I can ever get it one built. For the second time, my carpenter has stood me up. I need someone to build a pen. NOW! Mean while she lives with the dogs, Runs with the dogs and is agressive with everyone! You do not need an excuse to piss her off. Just be near and watch out! She will ram you, jump up on you and raise on her hind legs and charge at you! RUN!Margaret is loose and mad as hell! I have no idea why but at least she isn't mean to me. On the other hand, I can't do a thing because she wants me to pet her all the time and if I'm eating she wants to eat it too. Last night I ate my dinner running around the dinning room table. What an insane goat! I need a pen ASAP!~Skunkster broke out of his pen and I let the pig Bubba loose. We have a zoo running around on Southworth! Please slow down but do not get out of your car.

FOR SALE! $1500.00

Habid, a Muslim friend wanted to buy a goat. To eat, I offered Rudolph for fifteen hundred dollars. The goat is not doing well. He doesn’t walk much and that’s usually on his knees. I don’t know what is wrong with him. I thought his nails were too long and had the vet trim them but still he is not better. From the beginning, he was a weak goat. Had a cough and was on antibiotic shots as a youth. We had him castrated at four months before he recognized his masculinity and still he grew into an aggressive alpha male. He has terrorised any one who has the effrontery to approach him. And has intimidated his peers as well as the geese and pigs.

I was so surprised when I entered the pen one morning and found Rudolph’s eye gashed open. It was a horrible wound! I ran him immediately to the vet and he was stitched up. The vet put some stuff on his eye and could tell if it was damaged. His sight was fine. He was all stitched up and the vet did a great job! Cost me $600.00 Lasted 3 days and the goat ripped his stitches out. Went back to the vet and stitched him again. Cost me $500.00 and again, he ripped them out. Returned to the Vet Easter Sunday and stitched him up once again. This time it was just the vet and I. charged me $400.00. I have spent $1500.00 on an eye wound. That doesn’t count getting him fixed at the vets and all those antibiotic shots, nail trimming, food, etc. So I think asking $1500.00 for a mean goat wasn’t too far out there considering what I actually have in the guy.

What I want to know is how a farmer makes any money on their animals. I really don’t see how they can when I find them so expensive just to feed. Not to mention the maintenance costs.

After the third trip to the vet, I wasn’t going to return that goat to his pen to rip out the stitches again. The goat moved into the house and followed us around like a dog. Within a few months he was returned home but separated from his brother who I believe delivered the initial wound.

Today, I will sell this goat for $1500.00. Well actually I’m thinking of getting the vet to come and see why he isn’t walking so well so I better wait and get the final price.