Goat Farmer Knits Cute Broncos Sweaters For Her 150 Kids
February 1, 2016 9:05 PM
Posted on 02/02/2016 9:44:09 AM PST by beaversmom
CBS4’s Jamie Leary has packed her bags and is driving to California for Super Bowl 50. She left early Monday morning heading west trying to get ahead of the storm and will be filing reports about the Denver Broncos along the way.
Her first stop was at a goat farm just outside of Montrose.
MONTROSE, Colo. (CBS4) – Nestled on over 400 acres of private property sits a small cabin with a lot of love — love for wildlife, livestock, and of course, love for the Broncos.
Rebecca Herberg (credit: CBS)
The Herberg family is getting ready to share their Broncos love with some new additions to their family. Rebecca Herberg is having kids this spring — 150 of them. Goats of course. The only kind of kids the Herbergs have time for these days.
“When they’re born typically they weigh eight, nine pounds; and they’re cold, it’s April,” Herberg said.
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That’s why Herberg knits little orange and blue sweaters for the cold kids.
“The first go-around uses them for a couple of weeks, we wash them, we put them on the next round,” Herberg said. “As long as everyone gets a sweater.”
With 14, and what Herberg’s husband calls a half dog, her Broncos goat coats and ranch duties take up every second of the day. The girl goats get orange and the boys get blue.
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“They look like a bunch of little Broncos fans running around down there.”
While she hasn’t always been a football fan, the Broncos have won her over.
“They’re really a team that you can be proud of, and I love them,” she said. “It’s not so much I’m a football fan as that I’m a Broncos fan, and how can you not be?”
One of the Herbergs’ dogs in a Broncos sweater (credit: CBS)
While the secluded lifestyle suits the Herbergs just fine, they finally broke down and bought a big screen TV to watch the Super Bowl with their goats and 14 1/2 dogs. Herberg said while she thinks Cam Newton seems like a talented young man, this just isn’t his year to win the big game.
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They are cute critters but smell awful. LOL
I bet!
Get to work.
Definitely someone with too much time on her hands.
I have 40 of them.
Only the Billy’s smell. That’s why I just rent them.
Weathered Males don’t smell either.
It is just when the Billy’s go all bubba Clinton they get the aroma.
What happens to them when they grow a little? Cabrito?
That why I don’t eat Cabrito, goats are just too cute.
Thanks for clarifying that.
When I was about 8 years old, me and some other kids rode an old Billy goat and he smelled us up pretty bad. We’d ease on to his back and he’d walk over to the feed trough and rub us off. We had to ride home in the back of the pickup and had to take our clothes off on the back porch.
That was my goat experience.
My four (three now; since Ellie Mae passed away a little over a year ago) were just a bit bigger when we got them. It was late March. Laying (lying?) in a 2*4*2 box with a lot of straw for a bed kept them cozy.
A heat lamp sufficed their first couple of winters in a 4*8*4 enclosure in the barn.
Now the spoiled rascals have a pad consisting of a couple of hollow core doors. Built in a corner, along the wall of my shop, one door is the roof and the other is the side.
A tarp for a door flap and a very small heater (in the shop) that circulates a bit of warmth thru some ductwork makes for a respite from the cold when it gets below midteens.
The ducks have a heat lamp and the barn cats have a 60 watt bulb under a false metal floor in their re-purposed plastic dog house.
Relatively stink free.
In warmer weather...
They sure look content and happy.
I don’t like Cabrito, either.
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