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I don't want to talk about satellites and genAI (though I appreciate all the comments in my mentions. I just need a little break)
I want to talk about goats and squash! Positive things I can directly affect! (Well, goats are you know, goats. So there are some limits to directly affecting them.)
@sundogplanets all those acorn squash!
@sundogplanets more goat pics please!
@sundogplanets Gourdes Pumpkins Squashes
@sundogplanets How do you do it all?!?
@sundogplanets @lisamelton Happy Festive Gourd Season!
@sundogplanets oh my Gourd! 🙃
@sundogplanets those squash are amazing!
@sundogplanets AI? Angora Intelligence?
@sundogplanets Do goats eat squash?
@sundogplanets Our outdoor pigs adore the occasional butternut squash. As you can imagine, this has now become a virtuous circle of well-fertilised squashes in the sort of numbers usually reserved for courgettes. Keeps the pigs happy, anyway.
We recently bought a horse trailer from a neighbour and today was the first day we successfully herded all the goats into it (lured with a bin of apples), drove the goats to a different part of the farm in the trailer, set up the electronet fence and portable solar fence energizer, and let them eat all day.
I won't declare victory quite yet because I have to retrieve the goats successfully back to their barn (will try after dinner) , but so far it's looking good!
@sundogplanets OMG that goat looking at us in the first picture is quite something.
Incredibly, amazingly, that went extremely smoothly! The goats went into the horse trailer with very little cajoling needed, and all exited the trailer back into the pen! The only part that didn't go well was that the leader livestock guardian dog was very worried when he got back to the barn and the goats weren't there, and kept whining until we let them out of the trailer. He's Such a Good Boy.
Ok...we'll try this again tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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The photo of the goat eating the apple is priceless... the look is comical😂
@sundogplanets congratulations.
Goats eating apples is the most hilarious thing
@sundogplanets ermahgerd
I wanna be a gnome in your kitchen for about a week and make a shit ton of squash and funky cheese and greens ravioli-oid stuff
pTerry on the Great God Om:
“The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
@sundogplanets do the goats eat the squash, I wonder
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@sundogplanets those crook neck squashes...mmmmmmmm