2013 Kids on HIll Kidding Aunt B is in the kidding pen, April 7th.

[20kidsonhill]

Well if you ever want to get rd of Nova......let me know

I must warn you. She is wild as she looks. But when she kidded, she did a great job letting me milk her for a few days. That doe can produce a ton of milk. and her teats are wonderful for milking, Milk just pours out. As you know that isn't the case with all meat goats.

 

[20kidsonhill]

realized I posted the same picture of Nova twice, This is the other picture I meant to post

Nova's doeling

 

[Shelly May]

I enjoy nothing more than seeing Very Healthy animals, Love the pictures, And I too have problems selling the females off, but DH has taught me that we can't keep all of them.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Well if you ever want to get rd of Nova......let me know

I must warn you. She is wild as she looks. But when she kidded, she did a great job letting me milk her for a few days. That doe can produce a ton of milk. and her teats are wonderful for milking, Milk just pours out. As you know that isn't the case with all meat goats.

Yep. That's a good goat then.

I had a feeling she may be wild. That's fine with me though. I love the Boer look, all colors but Traditional is my fav, but she is so pretty with the black and then the beard. I like her.

 

[madcow]

Those are all adorable kids! I can understand your wanting to keep all of them, because how can you sell something so cute and incent? But you know what? You can always have a continous supply of baby goats and sell those too! Kind of a vicious cycle, but at least you get to have them while they are little and at their cutest stages, right?

 

[goatsintheopen]

YAY for the new pictures!! it's about time ya know! a lot of cuteness happening there!

Everyone looks great!

Loving snowballs little buck(still chuckling over that! BTW, did I ever mention how unbelievably observant I am??)

Nova's doling is adorable!

Hoping Daisy will give you some cute Dolings herself!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Daisy kidded about an hour ago, She had....................................................................................................a single buck. How can that even be possible as big as she was????? He is very handsome.

 

[madcow]

Daisy kidded about an hour ago, She had....................................................................................................a single buck. How can that even be possible as big as she was????? He is very handsome.

Boy, you've had more than your fair share of bucks this breeding season! Congrats on the handsome little guy!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Daisy kidded about an hour ago, She had....................................................................................................a single buck. How can that even be possible as big as she was????? He is very handsome.

Boy, you've had more than your fair share of bucks this breeding season! Congrats on the handsome little guy!

yup, good thing I sell wethers. A least I am not going broke with all these bucks. MY biggest problem is out of 16 does that kidded, I only have 26 kids. That is really low numbers for us. We did breed earlier in the summer than normal and it was a hot summer. Now grant it, I lost 3 kids, so it was actually 29 kids on the 16 does, but that is still low for us. We rarely fall below 200%. Plus three does that were suppose to be know are due end of March. So I am down almost 12 kids than the last couple of years. Grant it 3 of the does are due to kid in a couple of months, but that will be too late for fair projects, so unless they are fullblood or have does, the bucklings will go for meat.

I do have someone wrote down that is interested in me bringing market animals to the buthcer in town, and then he would pick up the meat from the butcher and pay the butcher, and also pay me per lb on live weight on the hoof. He is willing to pay a total of 7.99 a lb for the processed final meat. So I need to run some numbers to see what that would work out to per lb live weight and how much the butcher will charge.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

No way.... She was enormous!



I was looking back at pictures and the one a page back of Indie's doeling looks funny. It could just be the angle or she was making a face but her lower jaw looks short in that photo. Since she was on the keeper list I just wanted to mention it.


And I sent somebody just over in wv your way for a buck. Who knows if they will actually email, but with a shot.