This time it’s the geese! Usually it’s a goat’s head looking for snacks. Today was the geese checking things out.
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I pride myself on my secret to having face skin. What’s my secret?
Spiderweb facials!
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
And I don’t mean the single strand ones (although if they get on the lips, they count).
I mean the full face, full web, IS THERE A SPIDER ON ME types.
For instance, from this guy hanging out next to the male pig pen:
One of the few times when the resident of the web didn’t scurry away to evaluate the destruction of all their hard work (sorry guys…that’s my FACE).
Stay tuned for more beauty tips!
If you mix Red Cell into your animal food with bare finger, and it smells good to you…trust me it does not taste like it smells!
Licking your fingers is not a great habit to have sometimes lol.
I walked outside and noticed a slight problem…instead of pigs in their pen, I had goats in the pig pen??? And not a pig in sight! Below are the caprine (goat) culprits, Molly still inside and Bambi already chased out. Seems the goats have figured out how to shove hard on the pig pen gate and slide through.
But….where are the pigs???
I went back to the site of the original crime and not only had they gotten out in the same spot, they made it bigger and pushed the post I had in several feet away. Talent!
But…still no guilty looking pigs…until I walked over to the side of the main area and found these two. One contentedly making herself a digging zone and one pretending she belonged out. Looking on from the door of their pen are Bambi and Lizzy (for once, Lizzy didn’t cause any problems). Sigh….
So, once again utilizing magical objects aka pig treats…I lured the girls back to their pen.
This time…I put in a piece of cattle panel in front of the tree stump and wired it to the sides. They are strong but so far not strong enough to bend a cattle panel. Means they lost a foot off that side of the pen though… once the weather cools off I’ll be working on a new area for them that’s bigger.
Badddd piggies!
Just kidding…pretty sure no matter how much pineapple you feed a pig it’ll still taste like pork.
Besides, these two aren’t destined fir the table. I plan on them being my breeding stock. They are quite funny at times!
This is a cat who knows how important a daily nap is. He sleeps so hard you can pile objects on him and he barely reacts…if at all!
He makes a great place to put the remote so I can find it later….
Went to let the buff ducks group outing the morning and wait…why am I eye level with a duck?!?!
So it seems this little girl decided she doesn’t want to be down with every one else and has decided she would spend the night on top of the spare carrier and wind break making bags!
Well…can’t blame her, although I imagine it gets windy up there sometimes. Score one for the smart duck!
Extra picture from when I told her to get down…”down there?!?!” 🙂
It occurred to me as I was bagging up crushed eggshells that if someone were to come to the door right now I’d have to attempt to explain the scene.
Scale that measures in grams…a stack of baggies…piles of white (ish) powder…and me in the middle watching a cartoon. Ok, it’s Lilo and Stitch, I’ll confess!
Just wait until I get to my big bag of crushed sage leaves! But the only thing knocking on the door is a lizard catching bugs…whew! At least, I think so?
I have a pig. Well, I have several…but this conversation is about my boar. The girls have figured out if they tip their water bowl then there is no more water until the next refill! Him? Nope, just means now he gets a mud hole and he knows sooner or later he’ll get a refill. It’s hot..I get it…he likes mud! But, he needs clean water too…. And yes, he does have toys (dog balls, a tire on a rope to shove around, etc) so no he does not need a bucket toy.
This is the pig, eating off his…you guessed it…turned over food bowl. Yes, normally I flip it back over but this time he re flipped it just as I was pouring the food in…so he got a tray instead of a bowl. That’s a problem for another day.
So when I walked out to this…his water bucket thrown completely across the pen right into his favorite manure corner…a mudhole complete with hoofprints where his water should be…I decided it was time to try something else.
Prior to this, I have tried multiple different dishes from rubber to hard plastic to oil pans (new of course). I tried putting a brick in the middle of the dishes. I tried the dish in every area of the pen. I tried the bucket, including putting a brick in it. He’s pretty strong and more determined than a brick apparently!
Here is the next idea- it entails is making a ring around the bucket tied to the outside of the pen for the bucket to sit into. I then plan on adding a clip and clipping the handle to the side of the pen as well.
This is the wire, it’s fence wire from Tractor Supply (and I’m almost out!):
And this is what I mean by a loop that the bucket sits into. I was afraid he wouldn’t be able to reach into the bucket since it’s slightly off the ground, so I put a failed water dish (complete with brick!) as a step next to it. After taking this picture, he walked up from the other side and stuck half his head in the bucket so the step was not needed after all :).
How is it working? Well, I forgot the clip the first time. The bucket was thrown across the pen yet again. I put the clip on from the inside, clipping the handle to the thick pen wire…he trotted over as soon as I shut the pen door and started mouthing the clip attempting to take it off. Back into the mud pit (sigh) and I retrieved the clip. Clipped the bucket on it from the outside and so far it’s surviving the assaults!
The goat….freshly washed and wrapped up drying nicely. The sandwich….my lunch, half eaten. The cat…basically a stomach on four legs and really really wanted the sandwich, enough to brave getting near the weird loud thing (aka baby goat) wrapped up in my lap. The end result? Dry goat, full me, and yes…the kitty got a piece of the lunch meat!
