A funny story of my wife's survey experience (One of many) This one is form around 1988
My husband is a Registered Land Surveyor in Arkansas and we have just completed our first year in business. With me as the chainman, Rodman and sometimes instrument man we have had numerous experiences, good and bad, but this one always brings tears of mirth to our eyes. We were cutting a forty acre tract out of a large farm in the west part of our county. The owners had horses and goats as livestock and electric fences crisscrossed the farm. I had just traipsed down a steep gully alongside the one of the ÛÏhotÛÏfences which my prism pole ÛÏtouchedÛ several times giving me quite a jolt. I had started up the other side to our check in point when I thought I heard my husband Moe yell my name B-E-T-H. Of course my radio, which was always supposed to be with me, was back at the truck, since this was to be our last set-up for the day. I yelled back and got no answer. Then, there it was again Beeeth, Beeeeth, Beeeeeth. Again I yelled back but still only heard my name in response. Having a background in emergency medicine and knowing the elderly owner was with Moe, my thoughts were ÛÏOh no the old man is in cardiac arrestÛ. I started back up the gully, ÛÏtouchingÛ the fence as I went, as fast as I could yelling the whole time, still only hearing my name yelled back in response. Halfway up the gully I suddenly looked up and what did I see, but a nanny goat and her three kids coming along the trail going Beeeeth, Beeeeth, Beeeeth
That's a good one. Thanks for sharing that.
Funny. I remember my girlfriend and I camped at my friend Brads house for a wedding. We woke up early in the morning and there were crows cawing. My girlfriend thought Brads wife was calling for him! "Brad!....Brad!....Brad!" I remind her of that EVERY time we hear crows.... it gives me a good laugh anyway.
Gregg
GMPLS, post: 336441, member: 8404 wrote: Funny. I remember my girlfriend and I camped at my friend Brads house for a wedding. We woke up early in the morning and there were crows cawing. My girlfriend thought Brads wife was calling for him! "Brad!....Brad!....Brad!" I remind her of that EVERY time we hear crows.... it gives me a good laugh anyway.
Gregg
yes every time we go by goats I go Beeeeeeth!!
I saw a goat eat a lit cigarette and then wash it down with a beer. It then went back to eating the multi-floral rose.
mattharnett, post: 336444, member: 6458 wrote: I saw a goat eat a lit cigarette and then wash it down with a beer. It then went back to eating the multi-floral rose.
I heard that goats can eat poison ivy and not be affected, but if you pet one after he's eaten it, you can get the rash. (not sure how true that is. In my head I reasoned that maybe when they're eating poison ivy they are also in the middle of it and getting the oil on their hair, and petting them transfers it to you.)
Tom Adams, post: 336446, member: 7285 wrote: I heard that goats can eat poison ivy and not be affected, but if you pet one after he's eaten it, you can get the rash. (not sure how true that is. In my head I reasoned that maybe when they're eating poison ivy they are also in the middle of it and getting the oil on their hair, and petting them transfers it to you.)
I don't know about getting the rash if you pet the goats. That sounds a little far fetched to me.
Goats love kudzu. I wish I had about 5 acres of the stuff for my herd to chow down on . I'm pretty sure my row crop neighbors would form a posse to come get me if I planted some.
Tommy Young, post: 336451, member: 703 wrote: I don't know about getting the rash if you pet the goats. That sounds a little far fetched to me.
Tommy, it's an oil that is on the plant (called urushiol) that people are allergic to. It can get on anything that touches it and, in turn, get on you if you come in contact with that. So if it gets on a pet, it can transfer onto you; that I believe. But if they ingest it can that transfer to you?, that seems pretty far fetched to me as well.
Any vacant land around here will be overgrown with impenetrable blackberries to a height of 10 or 12 feet within a growing season or 2. There are people around here that will rent out their goats to clear your blackberries.
The notion of goats getting urushiol on their coats which can then rub off on a person making contact seems perfectly reasonable to me. I've heard of guys wives getting the rash after they handle their husbands laundry.
Goats, critters that have a ferocious appetite and will eat most anything.
The first time a fiance met my parents as we approached their house the roadway was full of goats and she thought they were dogs, was she surprised when she went out to see them up close. Being a group of young billys they started rearing up and tried to head butt her and she came running back screaming. She has never outgrown that event.........
gschrock, post: 336495, member: 556 wrote: Vile critters (but tasty in stew).
Good tunes too....
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We did a survey where someone was raising goats for milk. There seemed to be a thousand of the things running around and the baby ones were getting out on the roadway. I was wishing I'd brought a rifle with me to thin the herd a little bit.
When I was 15, I worked on weekends on a pig farm. But the owner had about 6 goats. Those things would stand on top of ANYTHING. There was an old door leaning up against the side of the barn and I walked around the corner and was staring up at a goat standing on the edge of that door just as content as can be. They were pygmy goats and didn't usually try to head-butt me. But I still kept my eye on them if I was in the same corral as they were.
Tommy Young, post: 336451, member: 703 wrote: I don't know about getting the rash if you pet the goats. That sounds a little far fetched to me.
Goats love kudzu. I wish I had about 5 acres of the stuff for my herd to chow down on . I'm pretty sure my row crop neighbors would form a posse to come get me if I planted some.
Ha, if you wanted to load them up and bring them to Desoto County, I have a client who would probably pay you. He's got acres of Kudzu, and he told me he was going to pay to have a dozer clean it up.
Goats can eat a lot of kudzu. However, a dozer can destroy a 10-year supply of goat feed in a day.
Was doing a topo of 150 acres in Cibolo, Texas, the tenants there had a little billy goat that would follow us around, headbutting the 4lb sledge hanging down from my hand. Asked the tenant what the goats name was, he replied "Barbeque"!