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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Getting Goats
There I was at work, minding my own business working hard when my cell phone rings. It's my wife telling me that someone we know is selling a lamancha/nubian mix doe in milk, she's also willing to sell us a 3 month old kid doe. We don't have a pen put up, we don't have a shade put up. We priced fencing and looked at the cash on hand and decided to get creative. I went and got some T-posts after work then I drove over and got some free pallets from a feed store in town... not enough to build the whole pen but enough to get started. I'm going to have to buy some pallets from the same place, but in the end it's going to cost me less than half what non-climb woven wire fencing would have cost. Tomorrow I'll pick up the pallets and start assembling the goat pen. Hopefully I can work it so it looks decent and does the job of keeping the goats in. I'll post pictures once we get the two goats.
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