Free to Leave, Welcome to Stay

1/22/16

We've adopted a "free to leave, welcome to stay" philosophy for our ducks, chickens, turkeys, and worms for quite some time now.

Today, I subconsciously took it to a whole new level...

Let me give you just a little bit of a lay of the land:

We run our yearling lambs and our goats in the same pen. Off of that pen we have a graining pen; really a holding pen for bringing goats into the barn to be milked. I forgot to close the gate between these two pens.

Well, off of the holding pen is our duck hut-which has a hinged shed roof.  The duck hut is about 3 feet high at the front and tapers down to 12 inches in the back. Well, I thought I would take advantage of the chinook that we are having and prop open the duck hut roof and let that air out and dry out a bit before the next snow.

So, an open gate from the goat lot to the graining pen and an open door into the duck hut, and an open roof out of the back of the duck hut...yep, I went down to the barnyard to run water and there were goats here and sheep there, turkeys all in a fuss all over...and...

I don't know if two of our horses saw all of the carrying on and got spooked when they were too close to the electric fence (which is hot finally!) and they tore down the fence on accident...or if it was intentional, but both Blue and Ebby were out just wandering around...

smh

Free to leave

Welcome to stay...