Tanglebriar Nubians

Although it was snowing outside, I thought that I would take the goats out for a goat walk and take some pictures of the goats walking through our beautiful woods covered in fresh fallen snow.  Sure it was snowing, but it wasn't that cold, and the ground was totally frozen, so it wasn't muddy at all.  Plus the snow had tapered off, so there was hardly any at all.  Thus, I went out to the barn.

The goats were hanging out chewing their cud in the barn while looking out the door, because goats do not like weather that is anything but lovely, but they do like to know what might be going on.

As I approached, Reason and Fancy pushed Spice out the door into the snow, in much the style that penguins will push other penguins into the water to see if they will be eaten by leopard seals.  Goats like to check and make sure that they will not be melted by precipation, and it is always best if they can another goat to do this for them.I called to the goats to come go on a goat walk with me, and they hopped out of the barn and started to follow me to the gate at the far end of the paddock.

This went pretty well for part of the way.  Fancy was particularly curious about the camera, so I took a couple extra pictures of the beautiful Fancy-goat.

At this point, Reason-goat decided that this was all taking too long, there was no browse, and it was cold, so she headed off back to the barn.

Spice followed Reason halfway, then stopped and started bleating, as she was unsure whether the herd was supposed to be with me or Reason, and this made her insecure about life.  Fancy turned around, and I called to Reason, who stopped, but goats were making it pretty clear that they were not having any of this snow nonsense, and they wanted to go back inside.

While some goats evolved in the snow and the cold, Nubians are not those goats. So, we went back to the barn, and I threw a couple extra flakes of hay in the feeder to make up for dragging them out in the cold in the first place.