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The animals enjoying a lazy Sunday morning (lazy for them anyway).

We put up a single strand of electric fence to keep the horses away from our trees and bushes in our fenced garden area so they could get some good grazing in today. It’s still crazy to me how easy it is to fence in big ol’ horses compared to little goats 😆
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Mr. Gobfather kept me company while I was filling waters.
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Petunia and her “baby” Lavender are cuddled up, while Lavender’s baby, Maudie, is cuddle with Jasmine. 😆
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And this angle explains why Jasmine didn’t move, her baby, Banzai, is very cozy on her other side.
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Thistle and her giant babies (Clover and Shamrock) lounged on the trailer, while Finch (one of Lavender’s triplets) stands guard.
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I think it is so great that all the moms and “babies” are still together and enjoy snuggling as a family. 🥰
I noticed a turkey is hanging out on the trailer bed too. I love your mix of animals all hanging out. I can see why you would want the horses to be part of it too!
 
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The goats were not happy to be sequestered to a pasture for a few days. They do not like being treated like common farm animals. 😆
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But we had them in there because the gates were open with people coming in and out while we got this built. Once we get the ground worked and sand hauled in, this will be a small, covered exercise pen for the horses. It took us a month to clear the land and level out the spot for the build.
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The “baby” turkeys are as big as the adults already and you can’t distinguish which is which when they’re all out in the field.
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Around our farm, the chickens are our HR department. If the animals are complaining, we tell them to take it up with HR. Well, I think one did. I sat down for a break and on HR rep hopped up beside me and gave me the “we need to talk” look. 😆


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Your goats have the best life, and they don’t know it until they have to stay in one pasture like farm animals. But they actually look like a contented bunch. I Love Miko rolling around in the background. 😂

The small exercise pen looks huge! You guys worked very hard to get the space prepared. That’s a really nice and professional structure!

It is amazing how fast the turkeys got to adult size. I am glad you still have a good number of them that survived.

Did the hen tell you about disgruntled goats? 😆 She does have that look on her face! Great pictures! 🥰
 
Discussion starter · #1,290 ·
@MadHouse The hen just gave me that look until I said I was sorry for whatever I’d done. 😆 I can’t believe you noticed Miko in the background. He is such a goofy goober. That is just how he lies around, belly to the sky. He wasn’t even rolling. He naps like that. The goats and the dogs were actually pretty content being put in a pasture, which makes me think if we can get a few more pastures in place, we could easily switch them to a stricter rotational grazing routine. Right now, I rotate the horses and the goats can go wherever the horses aren’t.
 
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Moers kiko boars said:
Very nice arena! Going to get serious about training the girls? What are you going for? The goats look great. And the chicken, HR is hilarious! They do give you that 1 eye hawk like stare!😂🤣
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Unfortunately, it’s too small to do much of anything (just 40x60’). So I’m hoping to use it to get them to learn transitions in to different gaits (though cantering may not be much of an option in the space), how to control/change their speed within each gait, learn to walk/trot a straight line and to stay on a circle. I don’t know if it’ll be enough room to work on lead changes, so we’ll see. I am hopping to use the area to teach neck reining and leg cues. Just very basic things. Basically, just trying to get to the next step up from green broke. 😆
 
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