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*Small Farm Problems*

*Small Farm Problems*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Is this a problem for us…(or a boon for Trooper?)….. …..(you decide)….. There are so many problems that can and do occur in rural life….. …..things that begin as mini-oddities…flicker into a tiny awareness….. …..flourish quickly into healthy problems…(which can no longer be over-looked)….. …..and in less than a nano-second….. …..they can become world-altering disasters….. Such is a rural life in sunny sub-tropical Florida….. I’m sure all of my friends out there with…

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~Daughter versus Fence~

~Daughter versus Fence~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The goat herd has been culled down to just six….. …..Trooper is still being kept separate from the girls…for the time being….. But the girls….. …..are characteristic-ably running amok….. It’s just what goats do….. They plot…they plan…they scheme…it’s their primary focus in life….. My older daughter has taken on a solitary/stoic task of correcting and finishing an important fence-line….. …..the goat fencing….. …..it was started months ago….. …..but so many things got in…

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*Storm Trooper*

*Storm Trooper*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We have adopted “Storm Trooper”….. He was an abandoned Saanen buck….. It’s unfortunate…but those things do happen…(too often)…in and around farming….. …..and unfortunately it happens more to males than to females…because on a farm…what the males have to offer…is very specific…(and not always needed)…(and not all the time)….. The girls have babies and make milk…and if you let them…they do that quite often….. The boys do make babies…but then after that limited time…

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~~Goat Gestation~~

~~Goat Gestation~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Just when I think I might have trouble finding something to write about and post….. …..another day dawns….. …..who am I kidding…(?)…there’s always some fresh disaster to write about…and more just waiting in the draft folder….. So I’ll get to it….. Our buck goat (Professor Dillamond) broke out of his buck pen….. …..he had an undetermined amount of time to “cavort” with the girls….. …..(you understand that when I say “cavort”…I really mean…

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**Buck Beards**

**Buck Beards**

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** They can be beautifully luxurious…..or sparse and bristly….. Over the many years…..we’ve had many bucks….. Boy goats take pride in their beards….. …..they don’t care for them in a way that I would think was good personal hygiene….. …..but who am I to judge…..(?)….. I do have to say that in the dead of summer……in the middle of Florida’s heat and humidity….. …..you really don’t want to be down-wind of them…… Buck goats…

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