Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Video: Goats On Parade


From my time in Israel. Every day after milking and feeding, we let the goats go wandering in the hills, accompanied by a few good dogs. They would wander around and come back by the time the sun went down. There were about 220, and when some wouldn't return we'd have to go out looking for them. Some of them have bells on their necks for herd location purposes. Apparently, part of the way they find their way home is by the wind coming up through the valley. They know if they're walking into the wind, they're headed home. So if it was a particularly chaotic day windwise, they would get scattered and we'd have to send out some searchers.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Video: Escorting a Goat to Get Milked


Slava escorts a goat through the pen to the milking station. This was my favorite thing to do on the goat farm in Israel. Catching goats is a blast.