Listener Eric last week sent us some feedback about how he named his goat kids after doctor who characters:
I had a bit of serendipity myself while listening to podcast. It was during Dr. Phil’s interview at the end. It just so happened that at the point that he played the audio from the regeneration scene, and Five’s companions were speaking, that I was wrestling with Nyssa and Adric. Yes, you read that right. You see, my family has a very small farm. And on that farm we have some goats. E-I-E-I-O. Dairy goats, to be precise. And one of the things that Dairy goat farmers often do is give all of the kids born in a year a naming theme. Often, farmers are boring and just use the same starting letter for each kid’s name, and go through the alphabet over the years. As I said, we find it boring. We’ve used spices, rocks, mathematicians, guitarists, and constellations on previous years. This year we have companions. The first two born (twins are fairly common for goats, certainly no dilemma) were does named Nyssa and Rose. Rose and we have since had our parting of ways, as we have sold her to another family. She thought it was the end of the world, Doomsday even. The next two were buck-kids that are too closely related to our herd to keep. They might end up as dinner or spun-out to another farm. They are Adric and Harkness. The last doe to give birth this year had one of each, before escaping just under a week later to forage in the woods and die of bloat. We have to bottle-feed her kids, who quite savagely jump on us and bite at our fingers and knees because they are rather confused about what does or does not have milk in it. The doe is Leela and the buck, who is not related to the rest of the herd and should make good breeding stock for years to come, is Brigadier.
This week he included pictures! He said:
First off I just realized that I was getting down to the deadline and had neither typed my feedback nor taken a photo of the little Brig. I just stepped out with my wife’s phone to take some photos. Hopefully the cloud will share them with me by the time I’m done typing. If not, I’ll try again later with hopefully better photos; these were rather blurry and over-exposed…
