Spring
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
It is definitely not my imagination. I have seen the sun, and on more than one occasion this week.
The caprine girls are delighted; they run about, play fight and lie in the sun.
The elder branches are showing lots of new leaves and each day during my early morning walk with the dogs ( and Ben the cat) I try to break some off as a treat.
The girls love the succulent new leaves.
This morning they were in the field as I returned with some large branches and they immediately told me in their usual manner that I had been spotted. My mother and daughter Toggenburgs were at the head of the herd, their front legs situated well up the fence so as to get first pickings.
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly goats can devour such large branches.
I have planted three fruit trees recently and if even one goat was able to get access to them, -well bye bye fruit.
I have also sown some lettuce seeds. They started off in two cold frames, admittedly those inexpensive hard plastic ones, but one blew away in the gale force winds. Hence one set of seedlings is now protected by a pallet.
An advantage of keeping goats is that if any of my sown or soon to be sown vegetables become a little “worse for wear”, the goats will enjoy them.
With the chickens as well, our vegetable peelings are well and truly recycled.
The rain has kept off so I think it’s time for another walk.