A lovely feast for them !!
Do you have a Smallholding ?
If so I am more than a little bit jealous !
Depends how you term a small holding I suppose. To have goats you have to have a County Parish Holding number (CPH) so technically yes, but actually in practice it's a half acre piece of woodland we bought to extend our previously tiny garden. It was, when we bought it, overgrown, full of a lot of dead trees and rubbish people had dumped, including building rubbish. Over the years we have fenced, strimmed, cleared, had countless skips, I've broken a few mowers trying to mow stuff that shouldn't be mown, and finally we have something more like a paddock with the best of the trees and weeds in it. We planted a beech hedge.
Salt and Pepper, our original goats, pretty much cleared it of brambles so in spring we get lots of wild garlic in the shadiest spots. It looks nice when it's in flower, but smelly :lol:
The goats are the only farm animals we have, we did have chickens but when the last one died I said I didn't want any more for the time being.
Depends how you term a small holding I suppose. To have goats you have to have a County Parish Holding number (CPH) so technically yes, but actually in practice it's a half acre piece of woodland we bought to extend our previously tiny garden. It was, when we bought it, overgrown, full of a lot of dead trees and rubbish people had dumped, including building rubbish. Over the years we have fenced, strimmed, cleared, had countless skips, I've broken a few mowers trying to mow stuff that shouldn't be mown, and finally we have something more like a paddock with the best of the trees and weeds in it. We planted a beech hedge.
Salt and Pepper, our original goats, pretty much cleared it of brambles so in spring we get lots of wild garlic in the shadiest spots. It looks nice when it's in flower, but smelly :lol:
The goats are the only farm animals we have, we did have chickens but when the last one died I said I didn't want any more for the time being.
Wonderful picture It's nice to have somewhere that's a bit untamed The goats look very contented with their environment.
It sounds lovely, but hard work !
Gorgeous photo
Wonderful picture It's nice to have somewhere that's a bit untamed The goats look very contented with their environment.
It's a lovely photo Zoobec.
Do you have photos of the rest of your land?
Lovely photo My dad owns a paddock and is wondering whether to get goats or alpacas
Not many, will post some sometime.
Lovely photo My dad owns a paddock and is wondering whether to get goats or alpacas
I don't know anything about alpacas, but goats are great, very funny, very clever, expert escape artists, prefer weeds and hedges and bark to grass. Feel free to ask/PM me if you have any goaty questions :thumb: they need a shelter available at all times as their fur is not waterproof. First drop of rain means they run to the shed:lol: