A month for Thanksgoating (November 2021 goat nominations)

@werehatrack

A little bird suggested that?

@f00l @werehatrack Not me. I am keeping my beak shut this month and letting the feathers fall where they may.

@f00l @Walterbird @werehatrack so behind the woodshop?

@sammydog01

/giphy oh my

@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974

@mike808 @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974

@sammydog01 has a rich, complicated, intricate life.

@sammydog01 I mean your fantasy didn’t have to be limited to football

@sammydog01 I keep my head down during nominations to avoid this very thing and then my team not only fails me on the field but throws me under the bus like this?

@metaphore

@mbersiam

@mbersiam
So do we have a new candidate - or set of candidates? If so, they get my vote!

@Kyeh @mbersiam
I believe the precedent has been that to be eligible for formal nomination, the nominee must be able to post on the forum. I will politely disdain any recognition of possible human collusion in the enabling of such presences.

@mbersiam @werehatrack
Well, we’d goat mbersiam, and she’d have her crew of assistants to help her out.

@Kyeh @werehatrack i’d accept thar nom-nom-nom-nomination

@Kyeh @mbersiam
I’m just The Goat, but I’d say that could have just put you in the lead.

@Kyeh @mbersiam @werehatrack I’d say we vet each one of those possible assistants. We know very little about them other than they follow each each around, they have their nose up the goat in front of them’s butt and they are cute.

@Felton10 @Kyeh @mbersiam @werehatrack like which can be handle… Err eat… The most… Mhm not sure how to phrase… The junk we toss out there?

@Felton10 @Kyeh @werehatrack

Baby is the smallest. She follows me around and will do as told. Give her a task and she will happily get it done.

Peanut, named so because I started calling her Helen due to her stubbornness but decided it best not to name a stubborn goat after my mother. So my 6 year old came up with a name on the spot.

Hashbrown is very chill. Likes to eat, he will help destroy any evidence you need to get rid of.

Brownie (aka pumpkin by my kids) is kind of stupid. He’s the “muscle” but beware, he will also get his head stuck in the goofiest places.

Elijah is a bit majestic. He can be a leader and the pack follows him, but he’s stoic. If you have secrets to keep, he’s the one you go to.

Fluffy sticks out as the “white sheep” due to his snowy coat. You need a distraction from the herd, he’s your guy.

Me… i’m the goat herder. I carry a big stick and will keep them all in line

@mbersiam I just have general unrelated to being goat goat questions.
What breed?
How high is your fence?
What is your fence?
How did you string it up?
Do you milk?
How far north are you/winter an issue?

I have ~2 acres of field to fence eventually and I haven’t decided on what would even go in there but I like hearing about what others have done. Gives me ideas.

@mbersiam @unksol Where I used to live (different place in MS than where I am now) that family (I watched their 6 kids after school after I lost my job due to two cancers in one year while job hunting) had 1.5 acres and had 2 goats. It took them a while to eat all the underbrush - most of that yard was woods (and they also needed fed once they did that and their food was supplemented in the winter with pellet goat food). They had a chain link fence that kept the goats in. They also had things for the goats to stand on far enough from the fence that they couldn’t launch off of those and over the fence. They didn’t milk, they didn’t have those goats for any other reason that eat underbrush. Goats would head butt on occasion when you fed them and did like their heads being scratched (and solicited it). They also liked being brushed. I’d imagine you could interact with them more than these people did and turn them into responsive pets.

@Kidsandliz @mbersiam well. The field has been handling itself so I don’t need them to eat brush. I mean it is just grass I don’t mess with. It just is. Goats jumping fences seems to be a thing.

Really chickens have to come first and not even there yet.

But still new ideas

@unksol
We have 5 haiaman-saan crossbreeds and 1 is a toggenburg.

They are juveniles right now so we aren’t milking yet, but when they’re old enough we do plan on milking the 2 females. The others are meat goats.

As far as fencing, we bought the farm with fencing up already. it is actually set up for horses so pretty tall and can be electrified. We had to hang some fencing on the gates too since the goats could fit through the gate spaces.

Chain link would probably be better but needs to be tall enough to keep them in and predators out.

@Kidsandliz @unksol we started with 4 chicks and we’re ready to butcher them next week. They were cheap (pardon the pun) when we got them and figured we’d give them a try and if they died it wouldn’t be a big deal. They survived though and we’ll be getting laying hens in the spring.

Oh and as far as where i am located… i am about 2 hours south of the 45th parallel

@mbersiam @unksol There is no way I could butcher animals I raised. I’d get too attached. I need the distance buying something from a grocery store gives me from used to be living creatures and their death so I can eat meat. I’d suck at that.

@mbersiam @unksol Thinking about it, the farm next to my grandmother’s in the PA Appalachian mountains, he had goats and they could go inside a shed if they wanted (3 sided with the open side facing away from where most the winds came from. It had hay on the ground (no floor). The also spent time on the roof (metal roof). So they’d be fine up north. You’d have to make sure their water didn’t freeze. They drank out of a stream that didn’t freeze over in the winter, but you could get a marginally heated (eg heats to just above 32 degrees) water tub for them.

@Kidsandliz @mbersiam I mean step one would be some meat chickens and layers so. That was already on the table. Neighbors all do and they wander here and one of there coops is technically my property. So. Chickens don’t need fencing as much.

You almost need a tractor to pull some types of fence and what is here is rusted out and posts have rotted. And goats like to climb fence anyway. So what type of fencing to put in is a question and can cost a lot.

Neighbors have pigs in their back yard to. Could be a separate thing back in the woods.

Sounds like your North of me.

@kidsandliz sounds like a standard milking shed which yes some protection from wind but not a full on barn

@nonlion
/image first time meme

@mike808 @nonlion lol that might be a little much

@nonlion @unksol
The “enjoy” part or the “first time” part? LOL

It certainly can’t be the “very clever” part, because the site name rules that right out straight away.

@mike808 @nonlion lol I meant more the image of a man being hung. I figured it had to be from something. But… Even though I watched it I did not know people were doing memes or remember it.

Yay image search
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/james-franco-first-time

@mike808 @nonlion @unksol
“Hanged.”
A man being “hung” is something entirely different.

@mike808 @nonlion @PocketBrain @unksol Well, it IS James Franco. Insert…er, interject…your own joke here.

@ircon96 @nonlion @PocketBrain @unksol

@mike808 @nonlion @PocketBrain @unksol (groan)… Not the kind of joke I would have expected, way to take the high road with a dad joke!

@ircon96 @nonlion @PocketBrain @unksol
I was circling back to OP’s noob enjoyment at finding punny humor amongst the Mehtizenry.