Silly Sunday - Our Exotic Rooster

I can't imagine much sillier than our exotic rooster - the Polish crested.
When I first showed you him he looked like he had a cotton ball on his head.
Now his feathers have come in and he looks like he is wearing a hat.

Silly rooster!
He is a bit shy.

In the morning he first peaks out of the chicken tractor

then he pokes his head out and looks around

only THEN he will come down the ramp!
What a Prima Chicka!

He struts around the goat pen like he is something special.

I suppose he is with his black feathers, white hat and blue legs.
The publicist just hopes he does not turn into an attack rooster!

The New Chickens Have Moved OUT

You will recall that the publicist and the male person got New Hampshire Red chicks this year instead of Rhode Island Red chicks. Well, they have grown up enough to move out into the chicken tractor in my goat pen.

They are at that gangly teenage stage so they still look a bit funny.


It took them a few days to get used to having a new world to explore but now they come and go all the time.

In the morning the male person opens their door and they start coming out.

Some of them don't bother to use the ramp.
This chick just jumped!
Silly chicken!

They wander around the goat pen eating bugs and seeds and sometimes they STEAL MY GOAT GRAIN!
Can you imagine such a thing?!


This does not make me happy but when I try to maaaa to them about it they get this look in their eye

and it scares me.
Would you go up against that?
I didn't think so.
Not to mention that their beaks are SHARP!


When they are done for the day they go back in their tractor.

The end.


(ps - tomorrow I will tell you about the new exotic chick, the Polish crested)

Farm Cat Friday - Cat in a Bag

I know that many of you have heard of The Cat in the Hat but how many of you know of
The Cat in the Bag?


And not just any Cat in the Bag - a Farm Cat in the Bag!
Sherpa the Farm Cat to be exact!
The publicist turned around and she saw this

Sherpa had gotten into the bag the male person uses to deliver eggs.
Silly Sherpa!

He was looking very comfortable there for a bit.

I think he might have even started to fall asleep.
But then....

Uh-oh!
HARRY THE FARM CAT!
To be continued......
Come back for next week's Farm Cat Friday to see what happens!

The New Hay is YUMMY

The male person decided to see if we liked the new hay.
Silly male person!
It's hay - of course we will like it.


But we were not going to maaaaa, "No thank you" when he came calling with hay to eat!
We are not stupid goats.


The problem is, as always.....

ABBYGOAT

Who else?

She was a piggie goat and did not want to share.

The male person gave her a taste first because HE is not stupid and he did not want to get butt.

Then he managed to let Sarah have a nibble.

Then guess who butt in?

Literally...

Uh-huh - AbbyGoat!

It was hard to keep her away from the hay.

You would think she had not eaten for a week.

Harumph!

As if!

Sarah managed another nibble but the rest of us did not get any.

AbbyGoat would not let us near.

She would butt anygoat that tried to get close.

MEAN, MEAN AbbyGoat!

The male person finally decided that Abby was going to be a hog and he left.

What a shame for me and Nora the goat.

Stupid Abby!

Wordless Wednesday - First Taste

AbbyDay - Pfffft! It Had BETTER be AbbyDay

It is AbbyDay!
And it is about time!
I was not happy about being tied up in the barn giving up my day on the blog last week for Pricilla's stupid investigation.


Pfffffft!


AbbyDay is more important that ANYTHING!


To make up for it the publicist paid me extra special attention.
As is my due...

She scratched me between the ears.

Aaaaaaaah, that feels soooooo good.

DON'T STOP NOW. YOU OWE ME WOMAN!


I love to be scratched.
Don't you?

I am one Happy Goat.
I should ALWAYS be a happy goat.
I am AbbyGoat.

I am ready for my close up.
Erm, too close?

Dateline Mystery/Happy Goats Farm: MYSTERY SOLVED and a #Giveaway

I HAVE SOLVED THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING HAY!
It's true!
I am an intrepid goat and I was not going to give up until I did!


To celebrate my success I am having a giveaway for my rich soap. I will tell you all about it at the end of my post.


I figured it out when I saw this..

It was THE MALE PERSON who took all the hay!
He moved it so he could bring in even MORE hay.
Isn't he a wonderful male person?!

He went with a friend and brought us 128 bales of hay so we would have plenty to eat this winter.

What would we do without him?
He takes such good care of us!

He and his friend Jim loaded all that hay onto his trailer and then unloaded it into the hay section of the barn.
Now there is so much hay there is no room to climb.
That is a LOT of hay.
Mmmmm, hay.


It is also good to know that none of the goats or my cousin the deer ate all that hay!


So to celebrate I am going to give away THREE BARS of my rich soap.
How do you win?
It's easy!
Just jump on the Rafflecopter!





Disclosure: I am giving away my own rich soap so obviously no one has given it to me!

Silly Sunday - Abby's Tail is NOT a Goat Snack

I wouldn't do that if I were you, Buster Brown!

Musical Spools

I am taking a break from all of the hard detective work today.
I think I deserve it!
I did a not of sniffing around and I have SOLVED the mystery.


I will tell you on Monday who STOLE they hay.
For now I want you to leave all of the worries of the missing munchies behind and just enjoy goats being goats.


Buster Brown the goat and his nanny were up on the spools when they decided to play a game of Musical Spools. This is a game we goats really enjoy.

Sarah hopped to the higher spool leaving Buster on the lower.
But what young buckling wants to stay on a lower spool?

Uh-huh!
NO young buckling!
Over he reached.
Of course there might have been a turnip green or two involved in all of this spool hopping. I cannot say for sure....

Then Sarah decided to jump down!
Did Buster Brown win?

What do you think?
Sarah the goat would not give in that easily!
But she figured she had shown her kid that she was "large and in charge" so she left and gave him the spools all to himself!

Lucky Buster Brown!
He did some goat yoga and got ready to show his stuff!
(Remember, it is important to stretch before exercising!)

He flew to the left!
The big spool was his.
But he missed his nanny...

...so down he jumped so he could be with her.

What a good kid!
His nanny was happy to see him and he was rewarded.

With a turnip green!
Lucky Buster Brown!

Dateline Mystery/Happy Goats Farm: Farm Cat Friday - Stinky the Cat Knows Who Took the Hay!

I did not think that the Farm cats had anything to do with the missing hay.
They do not eat hay.
They eat stinky, fishy food.


They do, however spend a lot of their time napping in the hay.
Who knew?
Apparently the publicist did so she told me I should maaaaa to them.
Specifically Stinky the Farm cat.


So that is exactly what I did!
I found Stinky on the scratching post.

We goats do not have scratching posts because we do not scratch but it has given me a brilliant idea; BUTTING POSTS! We goats should have buttings posts!

(No, Abby! I am not your butting post! Shhhh, this is an important convermaaaaation so go away.)

Stinky seemed a bit more interested in cuddling with her mousie toy than in meowing with me. 
I suppose I can understand this.
I would be more interested in apples than in maaaaaing with Stinky the Farm cat.

But just before she drifted off to sleep Stinky gave me a very important clue!
It's true!
And yes, I understand cat.
I am a bilingual goat.


So know I think I can figure out what happened to our hay.
Have you?
I will tell you on Monday and there will be a special giveaway of my rich soap to celebrate the answer so be sure to come back and see!

Dateline Mystery/Happy Goats Farm: Hmmm, Was it My Cousin the Deer?

I am an intrepid goat and I am closing in on the answer to this mystery!
I don't want anyone to worry.
I, Inspector Goat Pricilla will find out what happened to the Happy Goats' hay.


The publicist was outside working the other day and she head a car slowing down on the road. She looked up and she saw my cousin! 
That's right!
My cousin, the mule deer.

This photo is from Widipedia not from the publicist but you can see what he looked like. Although his antlers were not this big.

This was a buck deer and he had antlers.
The publicist always gets excited when she sees one of my cousins with antlers so she ran into the yurt to get her camera.


By the time she came out my cousin was waaaaaaaaay far away in the horses' field across the street.

I know he looks like a big bunny but he is a mule deer.

She took some pictures anyway.
I am glad she did because now I can investigate them to see if my cousin has hay in his mouth! 
Maybe HE is the hay thief!


But for now I will show you his progress.
He ran across the horses' field and then...

...he jumped the fence into the next field!
Boy can my cousin leap!

He then trotted he way through the field.

He was not stopping for anything.
I wonder if he knew he was guilty and he thought I was going to chase him.


What do you think?
I did not SEE any hay in his mouth but the publicist took poor photos.
Stupid publicist!