Monday, January 10, 2011

The beginining of goats





About 1995, My son Percy was here at the farm in Texas on vacation.. Well i guess it was a working vacation because whatever i was doing he was doing, weather it was brickwork, or farm work we were always doing something.
 HE had been here for a month or so and it was time for him to go back to Canada and his life there.
While I was out on the farm somewhere, he told Punkin,(my wife ) he needed to take the pickup and the trailer for awhile and he would be back.
 When i came to the house i saw the truck and trailer were gone and asked Punkin where they were, She said , "O Percy said he need them to go somewhere i don't  know where he went. I was a little concerned but more curious than anything.
 Anyway , after awhile here comes Perc back with the truck and trailer. I asked : where u been man?" He said" got something for u man, look in the trailer"
I looked in the trailer and there were 3 goats :). I said"What in hell am i gonna do with goats"
He said "Well, you got everything else i thought you could use some goats too"
I really had no idea what i was going to do with them, we put them in a pen by the barn and i thought they were kinda neat but figured they were just pets.
 Anyway i thanked The Boy for the going away gift and still had no idea what i was going to do with those goats
 Some time latter one of them went missing, it was gone for 4 or 5 days, i figured maybe somebody had stolen it as there was no way for it to get out
 Several days latter i heard i noise in the barn and found that goat tucked down in a hole between the hay bales, it had fallen in there and couldn't get out. It was a wonder it didn't die in there, no food or water for several days and it was tucked in where it couldn't move.
 That was the beginning, several years later i was knee deep in goats and at one time had over 900 head :)

1 comment:

  1. Sweet mother of Mary.......I just felt my heart break.................

    ;)

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