HOMEGROWN Life: Sticking Together For Winter Goat Breeding

Reader Contribution by Dyan Redick: Homegrown.Org
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With a challenging December behind us and the rest of the winter ahead, the most important thing to remember seems to be: Stick together. Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten comes to mind.

Number 13: “When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.” Is this what flocks and herds — bird flocks and sheep flocks and goat herds—instinctively know?

With the snow and cold and ice gripping us through most of the past month, I’ve had more time to spend watching behavior in the barn and the pasture. What goes on is nothing less than an example of sharing, cooperating, supporting, and respecting one another. Sticking together.

Farmers seem to have a natural stick-together instinct: a spirit of cooperation, a helping hand, support when you most need it.

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