Somehow the goats know when we're gone and save their mischief for those special times...
I was gone all morning, so of course when I came home I found Brighita in the pasture and Senka on the duck side.
My first clue was Gerda's frantic bleating from the shed. Not only was she unhappy to be separated from her daughter, her head was stuck...🤦♀️ in the same place as last time. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ You'd think she'd learn!
First, I blocked the chicken opening on the east side of the shed. I moved a bench in front of it and slid the bench away from the building about four inches so there's room for chickens to leave and hopefully not goats. Maybe if it doesn't look like an opening, they won't try.
Then I locked the goats in the shed so I could chase Brighita back in without letting any others escape.
She kept trying to go out the way she got in, which was by slipping between two overlapping pieces of the fence. But the angle from Jip's side was wrong and she couldn't squeeze through.
The Help Me Grow people had arrived by this time, and they were willing to help me corral her.
Next up, rescue Gerda. I opened the shed door and found this scene. How did Mina even get up there??
Gerda came out easier than the last time. I dug out the straw from under her head and she was able to slip her head back through. Senka quickly scooted through the opening back to the goat side. Soon she'll be too big to squeeze through and then I'll be rescuing Senka's stuck head!
I reset the blocks in front of the chicken hole to make the opening small again. By that time, Mina was outside with her mom. Did she jump straight down? More likely she used the cat feeding shelf and the milking stand as steps. Guess we'll need to move the milking stand now. 🙄
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