At my schoo we have a girl goat named Nibbles(!) and she was most impressed by the stories of Brian's exploits (particularly since she has been isolated at the farm since a string of incidents involving our school's neighbours). Perhaps we could organise a meeting for them; their offspring would be totally incorrigible and probably unstoppable!
Liz
Do you have a picture of Nibbles? I could show Brian - see what he thinks. I don't think he's particuarly fussy, afterall he took a fair interest in another schools boy Lama that we looked after for a while. God that was embarrasing. Ever seen a goat do a very good impersonation of Elvis (I.E. Hula dancing) with something twice it's size?
Richard Hollinworth Disease diagnosis and extension services
DPI&F
Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory
Great mental images there... I just laughed so hard the other teachers wanted to know what was so funny! I told them this really is an educational website - honest!!
Rosalie
Funny? I've never been so embarrased in all my life! A romantic goat? Just what we need when there's a class of Primary students and their teacher making their first visit to the Ag farm.
Richard Hollinworth Disease diagnosis and extension services
DPI&F
Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory
Hey Richard,
I hope you have a separate evacuation plan for Brian. When we had chickens we had to have an evacuation plan for them. This caused the principal great concern as ultimately she was responsible for getting those chickens to safety if there was a fire. She never comes up to science so I couldn't imagine her rounding up the chooks in her high heels as the school was burning.
We have two kids. A black one that jumps around quite acrobatically and a light one. Some students dubbed the black one Blacky Chan so I called the othe Bruce Wee. Unfortunately Bruce lived up to his name in one of the Labs. But the students had it all cleaned up and disinfected before I even found out about it. As to why they were in the Labs... they escape from their enclosure and come visit me. Needless to say we are in the process of soughting out the enclosure problem.
Be careful! We are in a child related industry. We could get in trouble for trading photos of kids over the internet!
Bye the way, I wonder what happened to the photo of the cute curley haired angora doe that I posted a few weeks ago?
Ian