his legs are twice this tall...i am taking the pic on a hill, pointing down. somewhere around 8 years old. 100 lbs. Gotten from my Goat friend Jan in New Mexico at 6 months old, as exchange for use of TenZen, our buck to her best doe. Impeccable breeding. Lived as ( neutered) Wethered companion to all our bucks at different times, Gideon, TenZen, Sunny Ray, Nogal and Buckwheat. Most recently with Sunny Ray until SR became weak and Jack became a bully. His untamed skittishness is my fault. He was a wether and that was his purpose. I spent little time with him. He lived peacfully once separated from SR until January 25, 2023 when some Thing happened. All of us have searched the internet for other instances of a wether suddenly coming into Full On Rut behavior at such an advanced age. We find none. Will continue to search. Buck Goats and wethers, when outliving their use , become food. Many people are delighted to find Goats for this purpose. Often, in this country, for traditional celebratory meals of other cultures. otherwise, they are simply "put down". Shot.
i wasn't directly involved in the work of the fencing. hung out watching the kids. There wasn't a lot of conversation about any decision making. They just worked worked worked at securing the fence. It didn't seem like there was a whole lot to say. There is full confidence that he can't possibly get out. While all this was happening he ran back and forth, back and forth along the front fence line...anxious with all the people in his space, the noise. I watched him. He has no clue. Something just happened inside him.
He cannot do what he so desperately is determined to do.
The keeping of the doe Goats in the doe forest last night, the mending of a weak place in his fencing, worked. None of them were happy. But this morning, all was quiet. Everyone came and immediately set to work mending his fencing, inch by inch. Many lengths of heavy duty steel farm fencing, cattle panel patches, T posts and steel clamps.
the paragraphs here are out of order. I don't know how that happened. but you can get the drift. i do not have the energy to fix it.
So it seems that we will try again. All day today doe Goats went about their ordinary business of Life. partly because of all the people here, so tomorrow and days forward will be the test. But we'll see. He is him. a sentient being. at the mercy of some quirk of biology.
have almost lost this post 3 times, so will quit. am tired. i counted the Spirals this evening. there is 40 of theirs. 13 of mine.
