Today I was rearranging all of the animals in the barn when the baby goats staged an elaborate and successful escape. They were alone in the barn and decided that really, they are big enough to hang with the big goats. So, when my back was turned the launched their plan and left their pen and made a run for the outside goat play yard where their Momma and her goaty, head butting, friends were hanging out. I honestly wasn’t overly concerned. I thought their Mom would protect them from the other goats and I know they love playing outside. What I hadn’t considered was that the giant blue bucket I have tipped upside down for them to play on in their pen is the same as the blue bucket I am using as a water trough for the cows outside. Anyone see where I am going with this? So the babies are running around in wild circles and banking off the walls and generally running amok when wee baby Myco jumps “onto” the blue bucket which, of course, is actually “into” the blue bucket and sinks. The water is about 2 feet deep in the bucket, Myco is not that big. I was standing there so I dived for the bucket and fished him out. He seemed surprised but he managed to keep his head above water. So we are soaked and he is shaking and the other babies are screaming and Bailey, his mom, wanders off to eat grass. I sent Aby running for a towel and we dragged all of the babies back inside and we all sat under the heat lamp until he was dry.
Now the babies play in Guinness’s stall when everyone else is outside. Where all of the blue buckets are for playing and not for water.
Now the babies play in Guinness’s stall when everyone else is outside. Where all of the blue buckets are for playing and not for water.