Meet Charlie

Charlie is a BIG goat (far left in this picture).  Very big and incredibly strong.  

He has a lovely nature but has a particular dislike of having his hooves trimmed.  And you can see in this picture Charlie, has no horns.  Oh dear, nothing to hold onto when attempting a pedicure.

The first time we ever attempted this Mike ended up with bruised ribs.  We’ve always since got the farrier, a man mountain, to trim Charlie when he’s in to do the horses.

But the farriers not due for a while, Charlie was limping so it was down to us this morning.  Needless to say, Denise ended up on the floor somehow trapped underneath Charlie!  We did manage to trim all 4 hooves, Charlie wandered off none the worse and we staggered off, battered and bruised, but pleased the job was done.

Bless him.

Taking advantage !

some of our rescue goats

Before our working day animals need to be fed; but today Mike got called away to take a phone call - so our cheeky Goats took advantage of a bale of Hay

Sun's out

and sky is blue - so what better way to spend the day but enjoying the outdoors ! - some of our goats

Here Comes Trouble!

Meet Trouble.  A very pretty little goat who arrived here with her Mum and extended family earlier this year from the wonderful Vegan run Happy Endings.

Apart from looking lovely, her 2 main aims in life are never being too far from Mum, and slightly less endearingly, pushing her head through the nearest

Trouble the Goat !

available fence and then due to her pretty little horns, not being to get out again.

After she’s eaten all she can reach there is a plaintive little cry for help which necessitates someone  trudging down to where she is stuck to get her out.  Unfortunately her ‘help get me out I’m stuck again’ call is the same as her ‘look at me having a lovely time her call, so we never know which one it is without checking!

She regularly gets stuck up to 15 times in one day, which does get a tad tiring, hence the name. Trouble.

We can only hope that as she gets older and more wise (!) and her pretty little horns get bigger and less easy to extricate from fencing, it’s something she might grow out of.  Bless.