The goal isn't to have an "obedience dog" you are trying to get a CD or a CDX on but a controllable dog that you are building trust with. @Southern by choice what do you mean by CD or CDX?
I think he is a watcher form reading a lot of your posts about the evaluations. He lies alert watching the goats. If he thinks that there is something going on, such as a loud sound or unusual happening. he first checks the goats and then focuses in on the what ever the disturbance is. He will...
So we now have a LGD (pup) he is 19 weeks old. I have read every forum on here, especially @Southern by choice's articles. He is a "Watcher" from what I can tell. He acts as if I am not there but is very conscious of my wife and daughters and stays close to them and the goats. The goats are...
I am horrible about keeping this journal up. Between craziness at work, and busy-ness at home, this is rough!!
So far we have had three nannies kid. All singles, two little does that have been disbudded one that we will keep, and a little buck that will be sold intact. We have one more FF to...
So I have gotten way behind on a lambing thread. 2 sets of twins born today 3/4 north county cheviot 1/4 Suffolk. And two sets of twins one on the 2nd and the 4th. here are pictures of all of them.
The first picture is of a few of the ewes, the furthest one back is actually the mother of the first little lamb. Next is our buck, Fluffy. And new lambs. The first lamb was born unassisted, and look at those ears. My wife had to help with the second lamb you see being cleaned off, her head...
we have Suffolk cross ewes that we are breeding to a north country cheviot ram. Lambs are arriving as we speak so I thought I would start my lambing thread, we actually had a oops back in October from a ewe that was already bred.
They are great looking kids. Good luck. I hope everything works out. could her bag have still be small because of the larger kid drinking the milk and her not producing enough. We give our nursing nannies, an oz of calf manna pro pellets the first four days and we up their feed ration by a...
Well what a surprise around here!!!! I went down to check on the sheep that are due to lamb any time and found another little doeling!! Lucy, our matriarch, kidded!! I have her due 3 weeks from now. I watched her being bred!! I had saw her bred before and this would be her due date, but she...
@Sweetened thank you, I couldn't remember what they were called. she is nursing great and at 5 days old is bouncing like no other. Thanks for all the compliments.
so I meant the nanny that had the baby has funky teats. the new little doe is perfect. we are raising for meat, so it isn't a big deal about her teats, I just worried with her raising a baby. with have two Boer/Nubian cross does. Anna (above) and Elsa, they are twins out of our Nubian Lucy...
my wife just called, just had another baby. This is our ruby. Her 2nd freshening. she was a great mother last year, single buck up but still wet. looks like we are having a lot of singles here. How fast do multiples usually deliver?
I am happy, FF always worry me. Plus she is a Boer cross, so she has funky teats. one large one and two small ones on the one side and a double functioning one on the other