playful goats
crunching on hay
tough roughage
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Two gorgeous miniature goats have joined Merlin and Spirit (our two Suri alpacas) in their paddock.
I would like to introduce you to Billy and Benny – they are very young but won’t get much bigger 🙂
They are pets and we can lead them around the garden like dogs, but unlike dogs, they eat nearly everything they can get their little mouths around (including plastic)!
We will have to keep a close eye on these two hyperactive eating machines.
Gabe Feathers McGee 
They look adorable, you are getting a lovely collection of creatures in your nirvana
Yes, we are 🙂 thanks Carolyn
Who could get cross when faced with expressions like these? Adorable.
It is hard to get cross at them Martin – hahaha – just like toddlers who keep touching everything 🙂
aloha Gabrielle – way fun. goats. they are a wild treat to watch (imo).
great line: “tough roughage” for your last line in the haiku. i like the fragment and phrase direction you’ve used with this ku.
i also like that “tough roughage” altho directed at the food has a sense about it that could include the idea of roughhousing play. i know that’s not what “roughage” means but still. . . . the idea surfaces in me when i read it with the first line of the ku. fun. aloha.
that was along the lines of my thinking anyway Rick (the roughage sounding like roughhouse play as well as the food thing) – so thanks for picking that up 🙂 Goats are great to watch – can spend a lot of time just interacting and watching them (hence me not getting much writing done in the last while).
bwahahahaha – yeah, watching goats is fun. you have to have fun. otherwise what would be the point of having written? (well, that’s not exactly it, however i think there is a place for fun—and watching goats counts for that).
i think we sometimes need to live our lives and experiences without a camera or a pen (or a phone) immediately at hand. when we do pick our camera, pen or phone back up, what we do with these will be enriched for our time without these things (imo).
so no slacking, have goat, alpaca and critter fun until you are satiated. i know you’re doing that with family, which counts too. then when you are ready and your pen is ripe, splatter your words down and you can have fun with the critters all over again that way too. aloha.
Hi Gabrielle. Your new additions are gorgeous. What a big happy family you have.
It is getting pretty busy around here with all the critters Helen 😉 but it has the benefit of getting me out of my chair and a bit more active (which has to be a good thing) – I’m actually starting to feel fitter (wonders 😉 )
Forgot to say that I love your haiku – very apt.
thanks Helen 🙂
What a lovely pair…you are collecting your own source of inspiration right there on your property…a most fitting haiku.
They are lovely Charles – I am sure I will get some inspiration from the beasties as well as a lot of contentment 🙂
xtreme cuteness attack, as they say on the web 😉
do they go along well with the alpaca gang?
they are good at eating anything…
The alpacas were quite scared of the goats for a couple of days Ben, but have now begun to approach them and get along – if they didn’t I would have to separate them (and that would have been a lot of work). The alpacas can help protect goats – if there are any intruders, like wild dogs, the alpacas let out an alarm sound and will kick and attack them (well, that is what I have heard).
Munchy little things –
Eat you out of home, no doubt,
Living there like kings!
hahaha thankKu colonialist – it is a bit like that 😉
What a wonderful looking pair of new friends!
They are so cute Graham – I love their eyes with the post box pupils 🙂
Gabrielle, they are totally gorgeous 😀 Billy and Benny. Fab names.
Thanks Kate – the people we bought them off named them Bill and Ben (but I find it easier to say Billy and Benny 🙂 )
Pity you named them, but my advice: Buy a Greek recipe book. {:-)
You can’t help yourself can you Staffo 😉 They were already named when we got them (the couple who sold them to us also keep Dexter cattle for their own consumption – they call all the cows t-bone and rump – which I am sure you will appreciate). I am not going to be eating my little goaty friends (so raspberry to you pffttt)
Hahahaha!
they look funny…. or it is the angle
I love goats, shame having them mean almost no life, or no ability to disappear for some days
your place looks amazing and more amazing with every post and poem coming to life
no, that’s how they really look Dhyan – hahaha (funny) 😉 They can tie you to home, that’s for sure, but usually you can find someone to look after your animals for a while. I’ve done enough travelling to last me a lifetime so it doesn’t bother me.
No lawnmower required, haha
That’s one of the main reason we have got the goats bluebee 😉 haha good to see the bee again 🙂