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A Farm of My Own:  Am I the only city girl wishing for a goat?  |
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Tatiana
True Blue Farmgirl
98 Posts
Tania
Boise
ID
USA
98 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 19 2005 : 09:44:16 AM
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I live in a very nice neighborhood that doesn't allow farm animals of any type. Trouble is I love my neighbors and I don't want to ever move again. When I go to my in-laws I follow dad around the farm and coo over the chickens, and pick what ever is on at the moment. I love the solitude there. In my heart I think I want to have a farm, and I want a goat. I think they are very cute and I want the milk. I have to go to the fair and get my goat hugs there. Does anyone else have yearnings like this but can't make them a reality? I keep hoping my single girlfriend will either marry are really nice goat farmer or someone willing to keep them. 
Tania in Boise
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2005 : 10:28:16 AM
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Me! I also want a brown cow and some chickens.
farmgirl@heart
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susan kate
True Blue Farmgirl
109 Posts
susan
Western Washington
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Posted - Sep 19 2005 : 5:41:10 PM
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Nope! You are in good company here with the Farmgirls! I am planning a major upheaval of my city life in the next year or so. Looking for a smallish town to plant myself. I see chickens and goats in my future. Good luck!
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
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Posted - Sep 19 2005 : 7:50:15 PM
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My heart is with you Tania! I so want some chickens and would love to have a Nubian goat. We live in town and where as we are allowed 3 chickens, my DH wants to wait until we get a fence all the way around the yard. Well, that's one of those budget things, you know. So for now I enjoy my friend's chickens and dream of nice cold goats milk.
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
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giveGodtheglory
Farmgirl in Training
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Tammy
Edmonton
AB
Canada
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Posted - Sep 25 2005 : 08:25:11 AM
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Goat's milk, *sigh*. The stuff at the store is so rank compared to the real thing. And yeah, Nuby milk is the very best! Especially nice and warm and fresh from the goat. I grew up with goats and chickens and sometimes the longing to mother little Banty chicks still haunts me. It's so fine to see the way they run after you even after they're grown and have peeps of their own.
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dg7954
True Blue Farmgirl
129 Posts
Diane
Doylestown
pa
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2005 : 07:43:36 AM
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| I am dying to have a goat. I once held a baby pigmy goat in my arms who was an hour old. I was hooked that minute. I would also love chickens and a horse, but, like you, I do not live where that is possible. I do have two dogs and two birds in a townhouse. That is pretty ambitious to my neighbors, but they don't know how ambitious I would be if I could have more animals. I sympathize with you. |
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mdotterer
True Blue Farmgirl
78 Posts
Marlene
Pleasant Hill
CA
USA
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Posted - Oct 08 2005 : 4:12:11 PM
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| I want a goat! And, some chickens. I'd settle for that, but a pig would be nice. The goat, however, is my top wish. When I worked in the Berkeley hills, every once in a while, the goats would show up, like they were on a field trip, to eat the brush. It's great fire control. I'd always stop and talk to them. They didn't know me so I'd get some pretty suspicious looks. |
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Judy
Cleveland
OH
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Posted - Oct 17 2005 : 11:54:53 AM
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| I want a goat so bad! The common plea to my husband lately "please honey! I need a goat! Please can we have a little farm with a pond and a goat and some birds that waddle and follow me around?! I need to, babe, I need to" So far it's working, because he too is starting to long for FarmBoy things like a chicken coop & bails of hay & a tractor. Someday, someday. |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Oct 19 2005 : 08:48:45 AM
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When we lived in the foothills of Colorado (Evergreen) .. the town had a local 'community theatre' .. i wanted to introduce our daughters to acting .. sooooo .. i took them to try-outs for Tea House of the August Moon (which had a Nannie Goat) in the play. Well, i discovered that those who had been involved in the theatre .. most of their kids had gotten all the children's parts ..
I volunteered to be PROP PERSON .. and YEP! there was a GOAT on that list! I checked the ads in the "Canyon Courier' (our little local newspaper) ..and sure enough .. there were GOATS for sale.
Put my hair in 'braids' and played 'Heidi' .. hiked up the mountains (O.K.!!! I 'DROVE' up the mountain).
I had picked out a little beauty and was ready to load her in the truck when the farmer casually mentioned a very early morning 'milking' ...
SAY WHAT!!!!!!!!! (this city-slicker-recently-moved-to-the-mountains) proclaimed!
He repeated his statement and I asked him if i had to actually 'touch' those things! And if so ... coudn't i get by with it about once a week .. and more towards noon-ish?
Farmer Brown didn't 'udder' a word .. he simply led 'Lady Astor' back into the barn .. and came out with a tiny little BOY goat, with gnarly little horns and the sweetest face on any critter i've ever seen!
He promised me that THIS one did not need MILKING!
Well, when i arrived back home ... we all adored him and named him "TROLL" (from a childhood book) .. actually, i think Troll was the monster that hid under the bridge!
I would pack Troll and our two daughters in my tiny little sportscar .. and we'd head for 'rehearsal' several evenings a week. All the way to town, he would sit in the back seat and nibble on our hair until his mouth was at tickling our scalps!
On stage, they had to put a leash around his neck to keep him from wandering off stage .. and when the little actress-girls would pull on it .. he'd fall to his knees and BLEAT loudly .. at which point, the mother in me .. would rush to to stage to rescue him!
My daughter just calmly walked on stage and showed them how to gently control him (he had already become her pet!) .. Well, needless to say .. my daughter 'got a children's part' in Teahouse of the August Moon!
Back home on the farm ... Troll learned to butt the front door open, come in and eat all the plants .. poop .. and leave gracefully! And i swear .. there was NOTHING he could not climb!
Troll became a true part of our family! |
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Tatiana
True Blue Farmgirl
98 Posts
Tania
Boise
ID
USA
98 Posts |
Posted - Oct 19 2005 : 4:15:20 PM
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Thanks for your delightful story. I am enjoying goat ownership vicariously. Probably better that way anyway.
Tania |
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