Tag: Fencing

A Tractor Ride at Briden Farm

A Tractor Ride Pt. 1

This one was fun! I hope You have as much fun watching it as I did recording it! It’s actually in 3 Parts, and that’s for a few reasons. One, up till now, a video of 2 minutes took me about 20 minutes to upload! The second is, although we thankfully just got FiberOp, or Fibe as Bell now calls it, I wasn’t sure how much faster it would really do the upload. The third reason, and this one is kind of laughable, I chickened out during part of the ride! Well, actually I turned it off, at the end of part one, because the terrain was so sloped I wanted to concentrate on my driving! 

So, that was part one, and I probably should have warned you about the noise! I also apologize for the noise making it difficult to hear me! I am a low talker, and I try to speak up, but it’s difficult for me! I’ll try to do better in Part Two! 

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There are no Bad Goats, Only Bored Goats!

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Goats and Chickens

It’s true, in most cases, that there are no bad Goats! People think they make great lawn mowers and go around eating tin cans! Not so! Goats, unlike Sheep and Cattle, don’t graze, Goats browse! They’ll go along from bush to bush, leaf to leaf, tree to tree, and so on, and browse as they go. As long as they have something to browse on they’re happy and content. Thus they seldom get bored as long as they’re browsing. However, when they run out of browse, like this time of year when the leaves have fallen, the vegetation has died back, and winter is soon upon us, Goats get bored. Bored Goats get out and about and can quickly find themselves in trouble! Thus it’s important to have good fences and / or closely supervise Your Goats! 
The following video is a quick walk around one section of our rotational pasture and a quick check on our fencing after our Nigerian Dwarf Goats, our Does, got out one day, and that had us Checking Fences at Briden Farm.