This Goat's Life

Jammies the stingy mini-Mancha came in heat this morning. She stood at the fence and bawled like a calf. "Come on Jammies," said t...

As you know I explained to the farmer months ago that I did not want to go on weaning. This is where you do not get any milk. The farmer sai...

Several people keep asking me for a picture of Melody. Well I don't have one and I don't know why you would want one because she is ...

This post is private please do not read it. Dear Diary: The new goat Melody has been hogging the limelight. She has been crybabying also to ...

I guess this is supposed to a funny video or something, but 1) I think I might know these guys, they look like some cousins of mine and 2) w...

Some people say LaMancha babies are not very cute. It is true they are not as cute as Nigerian babies. But I think they may have a vestige o...

Something else annoying happened today. I was running to help the farmer put the grain in the buckets when suddenly I was trapped in the swi...

Something very annoying happened. A new goat came here. Its name is Melody. It follows the farmer everywhere and cries when the farmer leave...

Well as you know this is a Z Year. Not for us Nigerians, we do not go in for that type of nonsense. But the LaMancha babies all have to have...

I have not been here that long but nonetheless I have noticed certain things. One thing I have noticed is that nothing ever stays the way it...

Just when the milkless boys had almost reached the bottom of their ocean of tears, everybody here is getting a headache because Pinky has be...

Fabulous Last Place Wronny is one of the farmer's pets because she never causes trouble and is absolutely silent. Even when Wronny is ha...

Some people came last weekend to take a cheese class. It was very boring, they did not bring any treats for me. Zane Grey and Mr. Jimmy and ...

Why is there no justice? Why is the world filled with grief and heartache? Why must bad things happen to good goats? Why did I get banned fr...

Boxcar Betty, my cousin, used to be sweet and adorable like me. She followed the straight and narrow path of the Captain January side of the...

It is getting late in the season and because of that and for other reasons the milk production has been dropping off. I do not like to name ...

A lot has been written about the infirm (Xie Xie), the elderly (Spenny), the unproductive (most of the milkers), the conceited (Cora Belle),...

Today we went in the big meadow again. It was a beautiful Indian Summer day. Then I enjoyed a few minutes in the grain bin. "That's...

Xie Xie was in a stupor for four days, not really eating anything and with a blank look on her face. She walked around in slow motion. Yeste...

On Wednesday several of the milkers got very sick from eating some bad grain. Jessie and Wronny are fine now. Winnie, Jr. is doing pretty we...