Post by mrskk on Dec 28, 2007 8:25:40 GMT -5
Gertie, our pygmy goat, goes through a couple of days every now and then where she bleats (sounds more like baaaaaaa!) all day long...is she in heat when she does this?
We originally traded for her as a companion animal. She was pregnant when we got her, but our beef steer cornered her so he could suckle (he only weighed about 1200 lbs!) and he chased her a lot, so she ended up miscarrying. We've had her now for about 2-1/2 years and don't really want more goats. She's a card and I love her (prickly, suspicious, fat old thing), but I don't have a desire for more.
Our neighbor has a pygmy ram (right terminology?), and he is willing to lend him to us if we want little ones. But he is not interested in more pygmy goats - he thinks of them as naughty little things because they can get out in ways his larger goats cannot!
So, will she be happier if she has another goat to hang out with? We tried a companion goat for her, but she fought with it all the time. We gave her away to the neighbors, after one of their goats died, but she jumped the fence and came back home again. She is pretty rejected by all of our bigger animals. We made her a little lean-to off the side of our bigger lean-to for the horses, and she can come and go through all of the fencing that the bigger animals cannot, so she can get away when the horses want to chase her.
I just feel that she might be lonely...and she gets cold sometimes when it is really bitter and windy. "Should" I have her bred and keep a female kid for her? Of course, I know that if I am depending on one, I will get nothing but little boys...
Opinions, please!
Thanks in advance!
Karen
We originally traded for her as a companion animal. She was pregnant when we got her, but our beef steer cornered her so he could suckle (he only weighed about 1200 lbs!) and he chased her a lot, so she ended up miscarrying. We've had her now for about 2-1/2 years and don't really want more goats. She's a card and I love her (prickly, suspicious, fat old thing), but I don't have a desire for more.
Our neighbor has a pygmy ram (right terminology?), and he is willing to lend him to us if we want little ones. But he is not interested in more pygmy goats - he thinks of them as naughty little things because they can get out in ways his larger goats cannot!
So, will she be happier if she has another goat to hang out with? We tried a companion goat for her, but she fought with it all the time. We gave her away to the neighbors, after one of their goats died, but she jumped the fence and came back home again. She is pretty rejected by all of our bigger animals. We made her a little lean-to off the side of our bigger lean-to for the horses, and she can come and go through all of the fencing that the bigger animals cannot, so she can get away when the horses want to chase her.
I just feel that she might be lonely...and she gets cold sometimes when it is really bitter and windy. "Should" I have her bred and keep a female kid for her? Of course, I know that if I am depending on one, I will get nothing but little boys...
Opinions, please!
Thanks in advance!
Karen