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12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
4 H FRETTER-ER
A BUCK GROWS UP
ADAPTING
AGAIN, THE SKY IS FALLING
ALL YOU NEED IS ... CARDBOARD
AMANNAMEDJED
AND THEN IT GOT COLD
AND THEN IT WARMED UP TO ZERO
ANGRY GOAT FARMER
ANTIQUE GOAT FARMING
ANYTHING BUT THAT
ARE BUCKS EVER BABIES
AROMA THERAPY
ARTFUL DODGERS
ARTIC FRONT
AUTUMN BOQUET
B U B - B U B - B U B
BABY BACK EXCUSE
BABY MONITORS
BACK TO NATURE
BAIT
BARKING AT GOATS
BARN SOUR TRUCK
BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED
BE HAPPY
BEAUTY MISTAKES
BEHAVIORS
BEHIND THE GATE
BIG 10-4 GOAT FARMER
BIKINI WEDNESDAYS
BILLBOARD GOAT FARMING
BILLIES & STICKWEEDS
BLIZZARD OF 92
BLONDE GOAT FARMER
BLONDE HUMOR
BOTTLE BABIES
BOTTLE BABY TALK
BOTTLE BABY WITHDRAWAL
BOXING SUNBEAMS
BRONCHITIS.
BRUISE OR DIRT
BUCK LOVE
BUCKETHEAD
BUCKS IN STOCK
CALLING YOOOOU
CAN'T TOUCH THIS
CANE I DO IT?
CARPAL TUNNEL HAY
CATCHING PEARL
CHICK CHICK CHICORY
CHOCOLATE PLUM
CHRISTMAS KIDDING
CHUCK
COLD IS OUR FRIEND NOT
COUGH DROP WORMER
COUNTING
CRUMPLED
CUD CHEWING CONTENTMENT
DAYCATIONS
DEAR FAVORITE RELATIVE
DELOUSED
DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW ...
DOES ON KIDDING
DOWNSIZING
DRAMA QUEEN
DRENCHED!
DRESS FOR SUCCESS
DUCT TAPE.
DUMPSTER RAIDERS
EARPUGS
EGG SHELL MASSACRE
EMMITT
EMPTY NEST SYNDROME
EQUIPMENT OPERATORS - DANCERS
ESCAPE ARTIST
ESCORT SERVICE
FALLING SKY
FARM WALK
FARMER C S I
FEEL LIKE A NUT
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
FIRST YOU TAKE YOUR SOCK
FLOATING MUSHROOMS
FORKS IN THE ROAD
FULL OF BULL
G G
GATE ATTACK !!!!
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GLIDING
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GOAT ADDICTION
GOAT CELEBRATIONS
GOAT FARMER SONG
GOAT FARMER WEIGHT TRAINING
GOAT FARMER'S CREED
GOAT FARMING CAMP
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GOT RUNS?
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HAVE MILK WILL TRAVEL
HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE
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HELP! HELP! HELP!
HELP! I'M IN THE BATHTUB
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HERE COMES KIDDING TIME - A CHRISTMAS TUNE
HOBBLE, HOBBLE
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HOW TO BUY GOATS
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I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE
I FEEL PRETTY
I PREFER LONG EYE LASHES
I REALLY DO HAVE A HOME
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I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT
I'M STILL HERE?
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IRON WILL
IT TOOK TWO
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JUST 1 MORE GOAT
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LAST BUCK STANDING
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M. D. GOAT
MAD AGGIE
MANIPULATE WHAT?
MASTER BLASTER
MAYBE THIS TIME
MEMBER ME
MIND CONTROL
MR. SNUFFY
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MUTTER MUTTER
NAMING GOATS
NANNY BERRIES ~ DEAR FAVORITE RELATIVE
NEW "KID" ... SHOWING
NEW HAY IN THE HOUSE
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NORMAL
OCTOBER KIDDING
ODE TO ODOR
OH, MY
OUCH
PANIC ATTACK!
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PLAYING DEAD
PLEASED AS PUNCH
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PLOP
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PRO WRESTLER OR PUPPY
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QUIPS-N-QUOTES II
REAP THE WILD WIND
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REFEREE
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ROAD TRIP 2003
ROCK ON
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ROLLIN', ROLLIN', ROLLIN'
RUB DIRT ON IT
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SHAGA GOOBLE SHAGA BLIP
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SHOTS
SHOULD EVERYONE VOTE
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SMART GOATS
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SNATCHED BALD
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SONG OF THE FROG
SPIES, SECRET AGENTS, SPOOKS, AND OTHER GOATS
SSSNAKE
STAMPEDE!
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STEP BY STEP
STICK IT WHERE
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STUCK AGAIN
STUDENT ANALOGIES AND METAPHORS
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SURVEY SAYS
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SWASH - BUCKLING BUCKS
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
TALKING POCKETS
TATTOOING
THANK GOODNESS FOR MUD
THE $37.50 BUCK
THE 2003 DARWIN AWARDS
THE COWBOY WAY
THE DACHSHUND AND THE LEOPARD
THE DANGERS OF GUM BOOTS
THE FARM WOOKIE
THE FLYING GOATZANIES
THE FRAGRANCE OF HAY
THE GAME'S AFOOT
THE GOAT WHISPERER
THE MOB SQUAD
THE MORAL BUCK
THE PET CHICKEN
THE PIED PIPER
THE PLAN
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THE SMELL OF MONEY
THE TALKING GOAT
THE TARP ANNIHILATOR
THE THINKER
THE TICK
THE TRUTH ABOUT DOGS
THE V WORD
THE WINDY TAX
THE WORM HAS TURNED
THEN THE KNEE DOCTOR SAID
THIS END UP
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TIE THE ROPE TO THE HAMMER
TOO MUCH FENCE
TORNADO ALLEY
TORPEDOS AND TIDAL WAVES
TOSS THE BLOCK
TOY TRUCK
TRAINING HUMANS
TRUE LOVE
TWITCHY HANKEY
UGH DAYS
UNCLE ARTHUR
UNWITTINGLY
USING CAFFEINE WISELY
WALK LIKE A TURTLE
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
WALK THIS WAY
WANNA BUY A GOAT (WINK, WINK, WINK)
WARNING LABLES
WAS THAT 65 OR 66?
WAS THAT CHRISTMAS?
WAS THAT THE WIND
WATER BUCKET TOAD
WAY TO THE HEART
WEANING WEANERS
WEE GOAT FARMERS
WELFARE GOATS
WHAT A DAY
WHAT DAY IS IT
WHAT'D YOU SAY?
WHATSTH THISTH
WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU VEGETABLES.
WHERE'S THE BRAKES
WHOOWEE
WIDE LOADS
WILD GOAT MILKING
WINTER LIST
WOE, DISPAIR...
WRONG.TURN!
YOU CALL HIM WHAT?
YOU COME HERE, NO, YOU COME HERE, NO…
ZAPPED!
BARKING AT GOATS
by
Connie S. Reynolds
autumnfarmboers.com
Ravenswood, WV

Wouldn’t you know, Lee and I go all winter without getting sick once, no flu, no colds, no nothing, and as soon as nice weather appears - BAM! We both come down with bronchitis. No, we weren’t walking around all innocent and it hit. We had rain on one Saturday and customers kept showing up and they all wanted to walk around in the rain to look at the different goats and we did get soaked that day. But, we had been soaked throughout the winter with cold winds hitting and not a sniffle. Not so now, Lee got the cold first and then bronchitis and then I just skipped the cold and went straight to bronchitis. I never did like to waste time about doing things.

Lee did get a bit of a throaty voice with his cough, but I got a croak instead of a voice and I coughed a lot. And, you couldn’t really call it a cough. It sounded like a seal barking. If you’ve ever been to Sea World or out near the ocean where seals are, well, I sounded just like them. People driving by kept looking for the ocean or the newest opening to Sea World. I was loud and often with my barking.

The goats did get highly suspicious of me. I was unusually quiet because if I tried to talk, I would croak a word and then start barking like a seal. They found this very odd. They are use to hearing me talk to them all the time or singing to them, my mouth is always going and they know where I at all times. It is true I am quiet during worming because I am trying to sneak up on them, but usually I’m talking or singing to them.

The younger kids had it the hardest. They had never heard me sick before. I would walk into a run-in shed with a bunch of kids lounging around and I’d feel a cough coming on, usually because I had tried to say, "Hi, Babies," and croaked out something strange sounding instead. This odd imitation of a giant bull frog immediately put then on the alert. They instantly got quiet and got poised for a fast escape. Then, because I had tried to talk I had to cough, I barked like a seal at them, it was a stampede to get out of the shed. They were running over each other, the hay feeders, lounging dogs, anything that got in their way. They considered me a person of great menace.

The adult does were use to me. They had seen me through a couple of sicknesses and my barking didn’t phase them. They would just come up to me and look me in the face to make sure I was healthy enough to still carry the feed bucket.

The bucks took it differently. Older Nico could come over to me in the middle of my barking and talk to me. He’d say, "Neee? Nee?" Like, "What’s the matter?" And, he firmly believed if he rubbed his head up and down on my side and got me as stinky as him, then my sinus’s would open and I could breathe better. Course, if you smelled like him, who would want to breathe? But, I never told him this. Didn’t want to hurt his feelings.

The buck, Strong Man Joe, had a different outlook on my barking. He just knew I was insulting him in seal language. I’d walk by and start barking and the hair would raise up on his back, he’d arch his neck, roll his eyes until the whites showed, tilt his head and come stiffly walking sideways towards me. Like he was saying, "Oh yeah, you take that back!"

Duke the Buck, handled it differently. He always thought I was a highly suspicious person and now I was just proving it. As soon as I would start barking, his ears would fan out and he would slink out of sight. I suppose the ears fanning out was for him to hear if I was attempting to run up behind him and bark to see how high he would jump.

And, I had to finally give up answering the telephone and just let the answering machine take messages for Lee to call back later. People could not understand my barking and croaking and why I would allow the seal and the bull frog to answer the phone.

I know now that three fourth’s of the people who call, do not leave messages. People! People! People! What are these answering machines for? Come on, you really didn’t want me to croak or bark in your ear, did you? You didn’t realize I was there hovering over the phone, anxious for your message, and I know you did not leave a message, you who ever it was that called. No, I don’t have caller I.D. because you are suppose to leave a message. Wonder if that’s why there is caller I.D., because people who had answering machines got tired of people not leaving messages and so they invented caller I.D. to find out who does this? My only excuse for this odd line of thought is the cold medication I’m on. I’ll have to remember that excuse when people look at me strangely in the future.

I’m feeling better now, the croaking has left, and only have a bit of bark going. Nico thinks he has cured me, the young kids have forgiven me for scaring them to death, the adult does didn’t care one way or another because I could always carry a grain bucket, Strong Man is glad I’ve quit insulting him, but Duke is still in hiding. All in all, I’m feeling pretty good now and can take your calls. Though I don’t think I’ll be getting quite as many because I frightened some people and the word is out I have a seal and a giant bull frog roaming the farm and answering the phone.

THE END

 

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