Susan's stitches. The itching is driving her crazy tonight!
Hi All,
The kitchen installation is proceeding at a pace. It needs to be finished by Friday for the cheese making workshop on the weekend.
My task today was to finish the electric fence. I pulled poles out and rerouted it around the pile of dirt as discussed yesterday. Susan purchased some more insulators and more cable/twine today around the corner at Premaydena. Morphine and I relocated the duck house back to the new compound after Morphine crowbarred and hosed their droppings out. The job was finished after 3, after the necessary trimming of shrubbery and application of some rudimentary warning signs made from the tape one buries in the ground to warn of cables. Ilan decided the goats would go in today.
They were led inside and left off the leash with some bowls of their food. After milling around briefly Ella trotted to the fence and ducked under the lower string getting a good boot. Instead of backing off she pushed through under it and bolted. She was followed by Phoebe who also received the same shocks. We rounded them up readily and returned them to the pen where they gave an encore performance. This time they both gulped down some water probably due to the fright of multiple zaps from the fence. Plan B was instigated. A tether to stop them. The logic being they need to get used to their new home rather than where they have been for the last x months.
I have an idea I will put into practice tomorrow. I will tether them separately inside the fence but where there is enough rope for them to reach it. Hopefully a few shocks when they can't crash through will give them enough psychological aversion to do the trick. I am just a beginner at this hobby farming lark and i don't really know what i am doing. I am impressed by the instruction diagrams on the fencing materials. For instance today was how to join the cable which is a thin polypropylene rope with about half a dozen strands of stainless steel wire to carry the voltage.
I was musing today that I hadn't envisaged goat training in my future a couple of years ago. I have the impression that they might be untrainable. A visitor the other day remarked that goats were intelligent animals. My response was "compared to what? sheep?"
Susan's surgery is healing quite nicely but the itching is driving her mad this evening. We had rump steak for tea after Ilans Thai fish cakes and before Suzannes cake. I cut the steaks inexpertly from a full rump The rest of the rump I reduced to cubes after dinner for a curry on Thursday night
Night Folks
cheers Simon
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