This video has been a few months in the making. As such it has a few different video and audio recording techniques that are sort of hodgepodged together. Sorry about that.
A friend of ours had a couple of goats, and asked us around the beginning of the year if we wanted them. Their daughter had been taking care of them and now that she was off to college, they were looking for a new home for the goats. Free goats should have been a clue, but we missed it.
We were not ready for goats. We had no shelter, no fenced in areas, no infrastructure for mid to large size animals. So, we decided to put them in the garden area with was fairly protected. At the time, there were no plants in the ground, so as a temporary area it made sense. We built the temporary shelter shown in the video.
Lucky for us a global catastrophe hit and delayed the arrival of the goats for a few weeks, which gave us some more prep time. Once they got here, we found that they had been more pets then animals, and for the most part thought that they were people. People that did not enjoy being locked in a fenced garden area with little companionship other than themselves. We quickly found that the garden area was not going to work to house goats, even temporarily.
So, we fenced off an area next to the garden. We moved the shelter into the new area. Too bad we didn't film it, because you would have all had a hoot watching Mam Bear and I move that thing. You will have to stay tuned to find out how the new goat area has worked out.
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