Pretty lady

My good friend Amy's favorite goat, #18

kids, the goat kind

The baby goats are cute as ever, I sit in the barn and play with them every day.

Norman Male

Here's Norman, one of the billy goats. He is one of the friendliest goats, and will stand up on the walls of the barn just to get nose to nose with you. He is cuddly and wants you to scratch him right under those gigantic horns. The male goats make hilarious noises, it sounds like whale song or bird calls.

Mom and kids

My Mom has been visiting for the past few days. It's been great to spend time with her and do the farm chores together. Here she is feeding some pine branches to the baby goats.

Billies and Bullies

Meet Norman, Bucko, Number Seven and Number Ten. Norman and Bucko are our male billy goats. Norman is small, yet has the largest horns in the whole herd, which the ladies seem to love. He is affectionate and funny. Bucko is an enormous goat with a single deformed horn that grips his head. He kind of resembles Satan. The very distinctive smell of Billy goats "in season" is a combination of urine, molasses and burning rubber. Not entirely unpleasant, if you can believe it, or maybe I've been on the farm too long!

Norman



Bucko


There are two alpha female goats in the herd who are so aggressive and dominant, I have to tether them up after they are milked, or else they will bully all of the other goats as they come out of the milking room. They are very sweet to me (don't bite the hand that feeds!) but I have witnessed these two in full-on mountain goat style head butting matches, and goring the other goats with their horns. Exactly like bullies at school, the other goats avoid these two as much as they can. As you can see, Number 10 is fat, as she is so good at dominating the food and getting what she wants.

Number Seven



Number Ten