when you take an old set of wooden steps
a couple of 4 foot 2X4s
a 4 foot peice of left over plywood
some discarded wooden window trim
and a LOT of nails?
A new hay manger for the goats! They kept standing on the old one, until the 150 pounds of goat weight knocked it down. They LOVE alfalfa and Timoty grass hay - but they trample as much as the eat when I just put a bale out for them - so there has to be a manger to keep the hay dry and off the ground. So Justin, Jake and I nailed the steps to the frame and then placed the manger on top of the steps for support. The little goats now can reach the hay, the big goats have steps for standing on - instead of the little 2X2 frame - and the rain still stays out with the plywood cover.
We also introduced Yoshi to her new pen yesterday. I stood it up on end, tipped it over the fence into the goat pen, and then promptly set it down. The goats immediately hopped in and started nibbling the wood. We put Yoshi in the pen - and she was not impressed about bein picked up. In a great turn of events, when I fed Yoshi - who has been hogging everyone else's food for about a week now - the chickens descended on her plate and finished most of her dinner!
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