larry@stinescorner
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The wifes very concerned about her goat pepper,hes 14 now she worries with this severe cold weather,I Have lots of extra straw shook out in his little shed,The door opening faces south,he seems to be doing fine,He gets his food and a bucket of warm water in the morning,and I Just gave him a bucket of warm water tonight,He takes a nice drink each night. I assure her this is ok,but she still worries,As I Was taking care of him tonight I thought of something that happend years ago in the town I grew up in here in NJ. Many years ago the town I grew up in had a lot of small farms,Through developements,most of them disapeered. I was raised on a small farm,and there were still some around when I grew up but,not many. My grandmothers cousin had a small old fashioned surviving orchard and kept a milk cow. He still had his orignal land,but new houses were all around it.His place was not fancy at all ;but it never was,and never changed. Some of the new people turned him in for unsanitary conditions etc, etc, My dad went and took his backhoe there and cleaned up some for him.I was very young at the time,but remember the ASPCA was invovled too,They said there was not water supplied at the shed. My dad knew the older local vet at the time. He went to court with my grandmothers cousin. It was the truth,he told the court my grandmothers cousin led the animal to the spring down in the meadow to drink,before he milked in the morning,then again at night,thats the way his grandfather taught him to do it,on the very same farm ,from the very same shed ,to the spring,which never once dried up in all those years.I guess they accepted his explaination,I Remember he kept his cow for many years after that,,,,,