A Mid Morning Goat Keepers Lament To A Fellow Goat Keeper

Good morning 

 I went out about half an hour ago to turn out the two withers and the two does in the pen next to them and Miss Willa was acting like she was in heat again and I’m thinking you’re crazy it’s only been almost two weeks since I tried to breed her twice and she wanted nothing to do with it.

So I got the four of them out to the field and she was being very sweet to the bucks at the fence it was  like I’m your new best friend.  I watched for a while and I thought man I just you know you’re there but I don’t know and you just supposedly had a heat but maybe you didn’t maybe you’re just adjusting, maybe you were pretending would  think after 35 years I would know something wouldn’t you ,guess not? 

So as I stood there watching them and she was communing with her father through the fence and I was looking at him saying I don’t think so. I noticed that her brother who is the wither is mounting her and she’s looks back at him and goes back to talking to her Dad so I’m thinking OK well maybe we have something here.

So don’t judge me but there still is not a collar on this doe .I keep trying to sneak it on her and she adamantly doesn’t want it and I really don’t have the energy at this point to hogtie her so I figure eventually it’ll happen but with that said the only way to proceed is to get her back into the barn. Without a collar or lead rope this took some fancy footwork on my part I got her back into the barn left everybody else in the field went over and got Longfellow with a lead rope on him and he’s knows where she is he’s looking straight at her and what does he proceeded to do ?

So I figure OK I’m not gonna lose him he is going to run 20 feet to the gate and I’ll let him in. Does he run 20 feet to the gate?  No he takes off and runs to the far side of the fence line and starts smoozing her through the fence down there. You really don’t want to know what I said when that happened.  The dogs were barking ,the cats were running  and the air was turning blue around my head.

Got my hands on the old boy using a few choice phrases in his direction dragging him back to the other end got him within eye shot what does he do ? I had left the panel that divide the gates out and he walks on the wrong side of the panel and starts snorting at his son mercy! 

At this point I’m thinking maybe at nine he’s too old to find his way out of a paper bag but we persevered. I got him on the rope took him over to the fence he took one look at Willa and said “oh there you are” I just shook my head I was done. I open the gate put him in she kind of danced around him.He said “oh let me follow you at 200 miles an hour “and they ran and they were off and I just let it happen. I just said “OK God this is your hand you take care of this I’m done.”

I hope it isn’t a sin to pray about goat sex because I was praying. I was praying she didn’t run into a fence and break her neck and blah blah blah but then I noticed something. She was running but she was looking over her shoulder all the time and finally I got them in the barn in a smaller area and she went “oh “and stood still and he went” awe moment of opportunity. “ And it happened.

They had a moment and then she promptly  peed I wanted to strangle her.  In the back of my head I keep thinking “you’re not going to be here tomorrow you have to be gone to the chiropractor and errands no breeding repeats tomorrow “so I just left them together for a while and he covered her again and she was more accepting. 

But all I could think about when all this was going on and I was dashing from here to there and everywhere and the dogs are going nuts and the cats are going crazy and the chickens are wondering what was happening to their world was my obituary going to hit the paper and it’s going to say something to the effect of elderly woman dies while trying to breed buck to doe. 

So I’ll cross my fingers for Ellie you cross  your fingers for Willa and we’ll see what happens just wanted to share this excitement with you.