Pearl is one of our goats. She is a very gentle and kind goat. She is also the mother of hoot-n- nanny. I wrote about her in a post last year (December 23, 2011). It was entitled Precious Pearl . If you would like to read that post it tells about the first time I found her with her head caught in the fence.
We haven’t had to rescue her any more until recently.
It seems now that every time we turn around… little miss Pearl’s head is caught in the fence. Billy and I try to make a trip around the boundaries of the fence to make sure she isn’t hung up. Sometimes she will make enough noise that you immediately know. Often though she is pretty quiet and just stands there and waits for someone to find her. The other goats usually stay with her until someone arrives to help. I find that interesting. They don’t leave her in her time of trouble. They also trust who ever shows up.
We have been coming and going a lot this summer….and just about every time lately that we are gone we get the phone call…..
“Hey…your goat’s head was stuck in the fence…we got it out…but we had to cut the fence”.
Sooooo….Our Precious Pearl is now sporting a new headband.
When we bought Freddy, our little brown goat, his previous owner had a goat that was wearing a beautiful headpiece like this. I was intrigued since I had never seen this before and asked why she was wearing that contraption. I thought possibly that it might be an easy way for him to hold her when he needed to catch her for some reason. Or possibly because she butted too much. He told me…well…she is always getting her head stuck in the fence, so this keeps that from happening.
I am so glad that Billy and I saw that little trick, we tried it out last night.
This morning she was with Jethro and all was well.
She seems to be the only one who gets stuck. Maybe it is the way her horns are shaped…I don’t know obviously…but we will see if this does the trick .
Pearl came into our pasture with horns….I have read that “hornless” is the best way to go. There are a number of reasons why it is better of course. But she already has them…and we have to deal with this…so for now…we will see how this works.
Billy and I teased that we should dress them up a little..he said… tassels….! If she has to continue to wear this…maybe I will spray paint it a pretty color!
I saw Violet, which is her mother, and somehow caught this shot. I’m not sure what that look is all about….Maybe she doesn’t like Pearls new headband!?!?!?!
It looks like she has had her lips injected with silicone. Hilarious….
Once she expressed her opinion…she was fine…..
I hope that this will help her, meanwhile we will be reading more and more on what to do from here…..
She is still beautiful and will always be our—– Precious Pearl!
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