Musings

The goat is chewing; the offset jaw is not some kind of damage. Goats do plenty of chewing.

Posted at 7:56 PM | Comments Off on Simple activities; repeat

Overwhelmingly, the troops act together, as befits carnivore targets. Of course, no stalking carnivores lurk in the immediate area.

Posted at 7:49 PM | Comments Off on Herd behavior

Here’s a goat picture, although the story of the day regarding The Troops was that Sheepie got tangled up, and we called the owner to free him, so that became a non-story. I was holding off on posting until the Sheepie story resolution, and plum forgot to tell the story. Now it’s a late-breaking story?

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Troop doin’s

The troops are very aware of us whenever we stand in the back windows, or pass by their fence going in or out.

Note the horizontal pupils….

Posted at 8:54 PM | Comments Off on Bezoar ibex descendant

Am I posting a disproportionate number of photos of this goat? Possibly. It isn’t a photogenic issue, it’s posing…and light, also, I suppose.

Posted at 8:05 PM | Comments Off on Browser in action

Meet Sheepie. That’s what we call him. He’s an outlier of sorts, hanging with five goats (and no other sheep). They all tolerate each other, but that’s the most you can say.

Posted at 8:26 PM | Comments Off on The Odd Ovine

Morning cud chewing.

Afternoon relaxation (and cud chewing).

Evening snacking. [That’s Sheepie on the far right.]

Posted at 8:22 PM | 2 Comments »

This is from experiments with the photo program.

This is a backlit experiment…with the shadow of another sprig.

Posted at 9:17 PM | Comments Off on Experiments

Species identification quiz: you can see four goats and one sheep. One (small) goat is in the right foreground, and blends with the surroundings. Sheepie is the larger beast near the back.

Posted at 7:12 PM | Comments Off on One goat is off browsing

The gang sure likes to eat this bush. Whatever it is, it’s a volunteer, and scraggly, and I don’t care about it. Today I saw how they’re eating so high up. The medium brown billy with his back to us gets up on his hind legs and brings a branch down, and the pair of smaller goats starts munching on the now low branch. Then, the billy carefully adjusts his hold so he can munch, too.

Posted at 9:49 PM | Comments Off on It takes a (goat) village