@D and L Meadows Thank you! So anyone that has no take in the farm and that is not related to me or has not purchased goats from me can do the verification tests?
You said that you need to have 1 verification test from someone that has not tested in the past year, so could the same person do...
@D and L Meadows could I have a friend take the test and be a verifier even though they don’t have goats? I am for some reason unable to get on adga’s website to look into it a bit more.
I definitely want to get on milk test though. I did get a scale (just one from Walmart’s fishing section so...
Thank you! Unfortunately I was unable to get them on test last year, I had been planning on doing LA and shows this year but the linear appraisals have all been cancelled and so far most of the shows semi local to me have been cancelled as well.
I was going to do milk test this year but I’m not...
Well the count down is on! Bella’s first due date is this Friday May 8th! Her ligs are definitely starting to widen (not necessarily loosen but are getting wider from the base of the tail)
Our newest addition! She is an 8 week old Pyrenees puppy. Currently unnamed but my brother has started calling her smudge as it looks like someone smudge her with oil at her left eye😂 I feel like smudge is going to stick😂 she has a small gray patch on her left eye and on her tailthe above photo...
Thanks! I wasn’t sure if she is supposed to get smaller than that or if that was all the way milked out or not(which I know she holds back for the kids)
At what point after kids are sold/weaned do does stop holding back? Her kids are going to be with her until the end of May so just trying to...
I don’t have any experience with the mini breeds (Nd crosses) as to be able to answer that unfortunately.
So glad she came around so quickly!
As for your Nd doe does she still have kids on her? Have you tried having someone else hold her/pet her while milking? You want to make sure you end it...
So I had another of my weird goat dreams about Bella this time.
I’m my dream Bella,cami, and Eva were all in the barn I’m kidding stalls. I had checked on them early morning no signs of imminent labor cami had both logs, Eva had one easily found and Bella was like cami, I got home from work and...
@Duckfarmerpa1 is it rainy up there? You have Nigerian dwarf goats? If so they breed year round. Usually coming in heat every 17-22 days, that being said they definitely don’t do “hard”( super obvious ) heats in the summer months.
That pic your new buck? He’s handsome
My buck is now 2 and...
@Duckfarmerpa1 it will be here before you know it😂
Just to see if they would breed?
Yeah I imagine your weather is MUCH worse than ours in winter lol I used to live in south jersey and we actually got snow down here we are lucky to get a dusting...
Thank you! I’ll post pics as I get them...
Bella is due in 16 days! (Day 145 is May 8th) any guesses on how many? Her first kidding she had a single(before I got her) second kissing buck/doe twins and this will be her 3rd
All photos taken 4/21/20
So I milked Lillie this morning a little differently than I had been and got an extra half cup! So 3.5 cups this morning!
She withholds a good bit of milk everytime so today I used the simple pulse until she stopped milking then took it off (after turning it off of course) massaged/bumped let...