Update On Got Your Goat

This is one like we have a deposit on.  See his blue eyes.

My sister, Lenora, and her grandson, Max, came by today.  I have talked Lenora into getting a male goat for my girls, Dottie Belle and Gypsy Ginger.  I have paid a deposit for a blue-eyed chamoisee buck from a farm in Oklahoma.  The doe, Rising Storm, is expected to give birth on 9/11, so we are hoping for a kid to match what we want.  The plans are, we will go get him when he is 10 days old.  I will bottle feed him and let him stay with my girls for a few months.  So in the spring, Dottie Belle and Gypsy Ginger will have kids and I can make goat cheese, goat ice cream and who knows what else.  Who knows, I might have enough kids to let every CPSB member have a name sake. lol

 

But all these plans lead Lenora to believe she is going to need an Australian Shepherd dog to protect her goat herd, since she will get all or most of the kids.  She has 12 acres in the country.  The farm in Oklahoma also breeds Australian Sheppards and they cost several hundred dollars.  So Lenora started asking around.  In less than a week her son, David, said his friend's girl friend's daddy had a litter of Australian Shepherd pups and didn't sell the runt.

 

So Lenora was given the 8 week old registered puppy. 
Talk about ask and ye shall receive! 
Anyway, he was already named Tex and today was Tex's debut as a goat herder. My video camera could not keep up with the herding, but that little 3 month old dog actually did get Gypsy Ginger all the way into the goat shack.   The goats and dog ran their hearts out.  Tex is a natural born goat herder.  So now all we have to do is wait for Billy Shakespeare to be born and we will get started on our herd.   
We have the herder!