Thursday, May 3, 2012

338 New Kids on the block "Dale and Willie"

My granddaughters Brook and Haylee have new baby goats. As you can see they are very cute and quite at home with their new surroundings. They spend a lot of time out in the goat barn playing with them. They are fun, to watch them eat about anything you put in front of them. As you see in this picture, Haylee allowed them to play in the lawn for awhile and they took to eating the new growth off of the pine trees...It must be real good as they ate several. Then we picked a few leaves off the tree nearby and sure enough they loved them also. Back in the barn later they very much enjoyed some good alfalfa hay....Goats will just about eat anything. Reminding me of a story my brother in law used to sing while picking his guitar. I think it was called Ole Billy Goat and it went like this. Ole billy goat was feeling fine, ate three red shirts right off the (clothes) line. His master swore he'd break Bills back, tied poor ole Bill to the rail road track. A mighty train was coming fast and poor ole Bill thought he's seen his last. Then I forget how the next line goes but the last line was that ole Bill Coughed up those shirts and "flagged" that train....I guess you had to be there...But Glenn Cornell could sing it pretty well and we enjoyed hearing it...it was our favorite....
The next picture here is Brook's goat, his name is Dale...they both are pretty cute and they will have a lot of fun showing them at the fair this year. They also have two other goats from last year. They are in a different pen from the baby goats. The girls dad, my son John does a great job building the pens and allowing the girls to enjoy these goats. Check out the eyes here on Brook's goat Dale...Haylee also has a duck operation going on in another barn...the mother duck has like 15 or so eggs...if she hatches them it will be interesting and I may end up with some of them here at the pond.
In this pic you see a proud Haylee with her and Brooks goats....it is fun to watch them jump around and beg for attention while you are with them...Haylee's goat's name is Willie....