2.11.2019
The school campers have gone home but luckily it only began to rain again this morning. It has rained all day, but we have had a week outside in glorious hot weather and it is nice not to water vegetables three times a day.
We had one male goat kid that did not sell when we first advertised them. He had a horn that despite our dehorning efforts had started to grow and I think it put buyers off. He was pure white in colour and very friendly, so I decided to try again to find him a home as a pet. After a lot of thought I advertised him as a baby unicorn, goat, and that got a very good response.
Yesterday a very nice young man came to pick him up. He had an old ute and was happy to just put the goat kid in the passenger seat. He shut the goat in so he could have two hands to pay me. This turned out to be a mistake. The goat kid stood on a button and locked himself into the vehicle with his new owner outside, and the keys inside! Luckily the man was able to phone his wife and arrange a rescue, but it involved a long wait at our place until the spare keys arrived.
I thought that that was the end of the story but this morning the goat Eden who has given a very poor milk yield since she kidded came in with an udder almost bursting with milk. I looked on the board and sure enough she had given birth to the only white kid we had this year. Some how she must have worked out a way to feed him through the dividing fence. That has never happened before.
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