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My Goats After receiving two 1-week old goats as a farm-warming gift, I became hooked. I wasn't expecting to fall in love with their sweet, affectionate, trusting nature, but I did. Now, I have 11 goats, all of them spoiled rotten and dearly loved. Seven of them have been bottle-raised so they think I'm their mother. All, except one, are bucks who have been altered (castrated). Being a typical mom who loves her kids, even if they are four-legged, I couldn't have a website without adding photos of The Guys. |
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Sweet little Joey. Bottle-feeding him in our living room. Only a week old when we got him and he spent the next few weeks, very sick. I thought he'd die more than once. But he fought hard to live. |
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Moonbeam making himself comfortable on our front patio. |
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After falling totally in love with my two goats, I decided to get some more. This is Rebel. He was 3 weeks old when I got him. He loves to jump and climb. |
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Sweet, loving little Snowflake. He wasn't one of the goats I'd picked out to buy. I was only supposed to get two. Well, the few times I went to visit the two I'd picked out, he climbed up into my lap, hid his head under my coat and went to sleep. I had to bring him home. |
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Merlin. He was infested with lice and parasites when I brought him home. He was also anemic and not eating. He's healthy enough now to be giving all the other guys a hard time. |
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Pixie. At the goat farm where I worked for kidding season, he used to stare at me constantly. He was the tiniest, little baby goat I'd seen up to that point. So, of course I had to bring him home. |
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Since my other goats where getting rather large by the time I decided to get Pixie, I knew I had to get him a friend. I chose Lightning. As tiny as Pixie was, is how huge Lighting was. And his ears (airplane ears) are so funny. |
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I swore I'd get no more goats, but I fell in love with this guy at the farm where I work and he was headed for the auction, which means he'd end up as someone's dinner. I brought him home and named him Pendragon. He's one of the funniest, craziest, hilarious of all my guys. |
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I couldn't help it. He was born on Halloween and they didn't want him at the farm, because he was born late in the season and the only kid in the nursery. Since he's a buck, he's considered useless. Humph! Anyway, I named him Goblin and brought him home. |
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