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I really want goats. I, too, would milk them and make cheese. What stops me is that apparently they’re incredible escape artists and also tend to chew on wood stuff rather than eat grass like civilized animals.
Once we move to a wooded area, which will be in a few years, I’m definitely getting goats.
Just had to say that the first photo made me laugh. My cats would love some chicks!
We got goats to begin with for their ability to clear underbrush and reduce the fir risk in the wooded area/side of the mountain behind the house. They were great for that.
However, they also managed to break into my garden and eat all my roses and raspberries (ouch).
It’s funny, she was very interested in the box, but once they were out and into the brooder, which is a clear plastic container in the living room, she completely ignored them. Two of my dogs are mildly interested, the third couldn’t care less. I thought they’d be more of a sensation among the other animals, guess not.
Sorry, you’re right. After you posted, I went on YouTube and watched the beginning of that episode.
Henry should be lolled as “I haz a sekrit”
My fat lazy cat likes to watch chicks, but doesn’t think of them as toys or food. Back when I had my wolf hybrid, a turkey chick played houdini and got out of the brood box, fell off the table into Lugh’s bed [under the table we were brooding on] and spent the night parent bonding with this 130+ pound wolf. Poor guy was puzzled because the turkey insisted on following him around the yard after that 
Airline pilot …
We carry chicks all the time. Sometimes dozens of flats of them. And not always chickens; I’ve seen turkeys & ducklings & goslings too.
And not 3 weeks ago I had a goat. A kid really. He (I think) was about 12" at the shoulder, mostly white with some tan patches. Really cute. He was packaged in a standard pet carrier (cast plastic clamshell with wire mesh doors & side windows). He had a straw bed, water, & a supply of goat pellets (both pre-and post-eaten.)
The paperwork said we took him from Tulsa to Pittsburgh, but the shipper & recipient were from towns I’d never heard of in OK & PA.
Well my Christmas shopping for this year is done. Goats for everyone!
Actually, we receive 365 Cornish X chicks every week of the year (except for the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years) by post and usually, they do just fine. They’re packed into the boxes fairly tightly because chicks have to be kept at 90 degrees for the first week or they’ll die. They don’t try and peck at each other. The boxes have ventilation holes along the sides and on the top. During the cold weather, the holes on the sides are taped shut.
The only real problem we’ve ever experienced was last summer. Although the USPS delivers the chicks, FedEx ships them on one leg of the route. Whoever was storing them overnight at FedEX was stacking the boxes tightly in a corner and the chicks suffocated because the vent holes were against a wall. There are few things more depressing than opening a box and finding a pile of dead chicks.
The USPS will also ship lizards, snakes, bees, and turtles-if properly contained.
Wow. You eat a lot of chicken.
I must unfortunately report the death of Josephine. Yesterday I saw the other chicks trample her and she didn’t get up. I put her back on her feet and she was fine for a few hours, then later in the night she grew lethargic with shallow, fast breaths and died soon after. RIP Josi. She was one of the easter eggers. The other girls appear perfectly fine, so whatever caused her death seems to be some sort of fluke. They’re growing like crazy, they already seem twice the size the were a couple of days ago.
I’ve had a yen recently to get some chickens, but since i don’t eat eggs and I couldn’t kill one for supper, there’s no point to it.
My neighbor has had 24 baby fainting goats this year. They’re darling!
StG
Is that the narcoleptic kind of goat?
dawson - More like seizing than sleeping. When they get too scared/excited their limbs lock and they flop over on the ground. A few seconds later they jump up like nothing happened and keep playing.
StG
Well, we do but even I couldn’t eat that many birds.
I’m a pastured poultry farmer and this is how I earn a living.
You ate your cargo! :eek:
Note to self: do not ask LSLGuy to fly relatives. Except maybe Aunt Edna.
Yay! Just this weekend I orders some chicks, including two easter eggers, which I should be getting in June, the week after I move into my new house! Yay!
Update:
The chicks are almost grown, should be laying sometime in the next few days to 3 weeks. They’re integrated with my three older hens, and doing well. Ultimately we lost two of them, Josephine at a few days old, and Estelle at about 10 weeks (it became apparent that she had some sort of leg deformity and had trouble standing as she got bigger, so we had to cull her…first time killing anything, not the easiest thing I’ve ever done.)
The rest are happy, healthy, and lots of fun.
Did you ever get your chicks, Little Bird?
I used to have pygmy goats and they were awesome! Big Time escape artists, but really sweet. I had bottle raised a few, and one, raised in the house at the same time I had kittens, was thoroughly convinced she too was a cat. Had hysterics when I took her to the barn. She wanted no part of those scary things that lived there. Ran around on circles and yelled. Then she crawled into my lap and maa-ed at me. She did get used to barn life but never really got over the idea of being a lap goat.
The goats are the most melodramatic animals I’ve ever been acquainted with. (Those in the pic are not mine, we’re goat-sitting for the summer. They are fun and sweet, but we’ve got 5 of them and they’re a handful. Very smart, though.