Aspects of my job that I don't like!

We took Chloe to the butcher's this morning - the hard part of raising animals for food. I had no choice. She has become extremely difficult and hard to manage (in fact, I believe she may have killed two goats). She started out as a good breeder. But the last two years, she has been a terrible Mom. This year, she gave birth to her babies and left them in the snow - I found them dead later that morning.

She also has learned how to get out of the pens. We have 4 pens for the goats - the first pen is our "baby" pen, the second pen is for our dairy goats, the third pen is for our meat goats and the last pen is for our bucks. Chloe has learned how to get out of each - I have run out of pens. And I can't have her wandering around unattended particularly since we live on a very busy road. She could also teach the other goats how to get out and that would be a major disaster!

Yes, I could have sold her but I won't sell a problem goat - makes me look bad as a breeder. I want people to know that when they buy a goat from me, they are getting a great goat.

I won Chloe in a 4-H raffle 6 or 7 years ago. Never won anything before and here I win a goat! Thank you Chloe for being part of our herd. I am sorry things turned out badly but I am assuming that you are now in the big pen in the sky. Enjoy!