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t walgamuth 04-20-2014 08:46 AM

Happy easter!
 
I took my grandson William to the zoo yesterday. He is four. We went into the petting zoo where they had lots of goats that are very very gentle. He fed them. There were also chickens walking around, and not in the petting area there was a Llama, a potbellied pig and some very very large Lop rabbits. They looked big enough to lay eggs.

We had a great time!

MS Fowler 04-20-2014 03:01 PM

Good for you, Pop Pop Tom.

My experiences with goats would not allow me to view than as suitable for a petting zoo. Maybe when they are w/o horns, but the ones I knew as a kid ( !) would try to lock my leg in their horns and then twist. No fun.

t walgamuth 04-20-2014 07:29 PM

These were the size of a german shepheard and had no horns.

elchivito 04-20-2014 08:53 PM

Mine average about 180lbs and are de-horned. My bucks are around 220lbs.They are roughly waist high on me at their shoulders. Most petting zoo goats are significantly smaller. Once socialized, goats are not aggressive. At least not does and neutered bucks, properly called wethers.

P.C. 04-20-2014 09:27 PM

Sounds like a nice day!

t walgamuth 04-20-2014 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito (Post 3318828)
Mine average about 180lbs and are de-horned. My bucks are around 220lbs.They are roughly waist high on me at their shoulders. Most petting zoo goats are significantly smaller. Once socialized, goats are not aggressive. At least not does and neutered bucks, properly called wethers.

They were all pregnant does with no horns. Lovely creatures....very pregnant in fact.;)

t walgamuth 04-20-2014 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by P.C. (Post 3318859)
Sounds like a nice day!

It was...thanks!

SwampYankee 04-21-2014 07:28 AM

Sounds excellent, T!

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Txjake 04-21-2014 08:50 AM

nice....

t walgamuth 04-21-2014 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee (Post 3318997)

That's very weird! Actually that kid looks like me at that age!

elchivito 04-21-2014 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 3318904)
They were all pregnant does with no horns. Lovely creatures....very pregnant in fact.;)

It's baby season, my favorite and most stressful time of the year. Lambs and kids coming out my ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wyWVb93MD0

SwampYankee 04-21-2014 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 3319032)
That's very weird! Actually that kid looks like me at that age!

My DD sent me a bunch of creepy Easter Bunny pics, that one freaked me out! :)

SwampYankee 04-21-2014 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by elchivito (Post 3319037)
It's baby season, my favorite and most stressful time of the year. Lambs and kids coming out my ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wyWVb93MD0

That vid is great. Rambunctious little ones, aren't they!?!? :)

t walgamuth 04-21-2014 11:57 AM

They look like puppies in their action except a puppy would not have that climbing instinct.

elchivito 04-21-2014 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 3319090)
They look like puppies in their action except a puppy would not have that climbing instinct.

I have a hoop house type shade structure in my kid pen. It's about 6 feet high at the center. Made of two welded wire cattle panels bent up into a hoop shape and covered with shade cloth. Every year one kid will be first to figure out that it can be climbed. Within two days that baby will have taught everybody else to climb it too and they'll all be throwing themselves off it and doing it again.


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