[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Granny!

Time to pass on a few goat tales from my youth....my father got a couple goats after he retired from the Navy. Maybe it was a mascot thing or maybe because he was Chief in the Goat Locker for all those years.

I never liked goat's milk, especially in the springtime when they would munch on wild green onions. I never liked milking them either because they'd finish their oats before I'd finish milking and either kick the pail over or step in it. Rounding up the goats for milking was a chore when the two of them were standing atop the shed and wouldn't come down. Although the nannys had a sweet disposition, they'd have two or three kids in the spring that would butt your butt every chance they got. It was a challange each and every day.....so....no goats!

[mylife]

I used to sleep in the goat locker on the sub.

Kicked them all out.

Mmmm Cabrito.

[mylife]

I liked that the goat locker on a 637 was a 9 bunk quarter, but the CPO’s would move off to the 18 bunk and they didn’t hot rack.
I think they preferred it for ventilation and you had a shower and Bath in the 18 man

The 9 man goat locker could get a bit ripe and you had to share 2 showers and 4 terlits with the 100 man crew. LOL

Still beats sleeping on top of armament in the torpedo room LOL

[goat granny]

Aloha BL Loved your story, I got a mental picture of the situations when read it....I raised Angora Goats not milkers...I was way to lazy to have to milk a goat every day...They would kid in March, usually ween by 3-4 months. We had a professional shearer to our shearing twice a year, Much easier than milkers....but I did have a couple of my city girl friends come out for hoof trimming one time and I can still see my old neighbor being dragged around the barn by a goat she couldn't control and sure as the dickens wasn't going to let me see she was going to give up....after we got done laughing at her, we got her off the goat....

Every 3-4 months they got their hoofs trimmed, deloused and wormed. Not hard work at all and I wish I still had the strength to do now what this 73 year old woman then...:O)

PS I didn't like the taste of goat milk either, its very sweet (I had to take a shot at tasting it) Doesn't taste anything like cow milk does it?