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

[20kidsonhill]

I love that big paint doe. Great pics!

Thank you, There are two paint does, but if you are referring to Annie on the left, she had some really nice kids this spring. so far she had triplets(one stillborn) as a 15 month old and twins as a 2 year old and this will be her 3rd kidding. She is a little hock kneed, the buck we were using at the time was kind enough to add that to our genetics. But luckily it seems to be fairly easily to breed out of them. Pepper(the traditional doe) is out of the same buck and she isn't hock-kneed. Interesting how genetics work. Pepper and Annie side by side in picture #3, their mom Indie on the far right(Paint Doe), They are from the same sire and look so different. I am not referring to just color, I also mean frame and body size.

I am little worried that Annie is only carrying a single this year, she doesn't look very big to me. But she is a good sized doe, so she could carry twins and not show a lot.

 

[RPC]

January just feels so far away I am ready to see your kids now hahaha.

Just wondering who were your keeper does last year???? Or did you not keep any?

 

[20kidsonhill]

January just feels so far away I am ready to see your kids now hahaha.

Just wondering who were your keeper does last year???? Or did you not keep any?

All these girls have been exposed to Goldman and all past the pooch test this week, they are between 30 and 35 days bred. Oh, Raquel was accidently exposed to Daisy's Bucklings(4 1/2 months old) and they were breeding her, her kids will be commercial this year. It is a long story of Musical pens. THey are due the end of March.

These pictures are a couple months old of them. I do have pooch pictures recently taken that I was working on, if anyone is interested in them.


I most certainly did keep some. I had 25 to pick from. we kept
Just Wow out of Indie and Twister is 100% but ony registered 50%

Chloe is out of Glory and Prooved It and is full blood

Raquel is out of Hot Mamma and Prooved It and is Fullblood(Raquel in front, Chloe is in back)

Tori Ann is 75% Boer/25% Nubian and is out of Tori and Karamba(we sold Karamba this summer)

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Why is it only registered as 50%? Is that because one is not registered?

 

[Southern by choice]

Beautiful pics! Boers are so pretty. I love how their white is so white.
I agree with RPC- January...really????

 

[20kidsonhill]

Why is it only registered as 50%? Is that because one is not registered?

Her dam Indie came from a wether making farm in Indiana, they didn't register anything. Her sire is Fullblood, so Just Wow is 50% Registered. Annie and Pepper are also 50% registered, since they are out of Indie, but they do have a different sire.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Beautiful pics! Boers are so pretty. I love how their white is so white.
I agree with RPC- January...really????

January feels close to us. We are in the middle of building a rabbit hutch and getting ready to travel to pick up our new Silver Foxes for our son, then we have plans to clean our barn out, I am sure that will take two weekends. Since it is dark by the time my husband gets home from work it is hard to get some things done. We are running out of time to get the barn set up for kidding. We could kid 2nd or 3rd week of December and still be okay with the size of our kids for the fairs, but we never feel like we are ready for it, and I feel like the couple years we have kidded at that time it took too much away from the holidays. I was too tired and too busy looking after goats to even care if I had a christmas tree or decorations up in the house or any holiday food cooked. So January it is. It's coming wether we are ready or not. I am not looking forward to cold nights. I think I have a pretty good idea on most the due dates, so that should help some. and we are doing all our post kidding steps hoping for big healthy kids with strong legs. NOthing worse than kidding in the cold and having a bunch of weak legged flimsy kids. And I can tell you that from experience. I sat on a bucket next to a doe one January night at 3 am, with my pants frozen, because I had just tripped on the steps going out to the back of the barn while I was carrying a bucket of water. It was in the single digits that night. I was holding up yet another weak legged kid during that kidding season, trying to help it nurse. Every muscle in my body hurt and my hands where soo cold. I just started crying. I didn't like farming much that evening or that week for that matter. I saved all of them we had 22 kids born that week, my husband was out of the state on a business trip. Kidding in January scares me, because of that one week, but it is the best time for us when we take everything into account.

 

[that's*satyrical]

Those are some nice, pretty, healthy looking goats!!!! Their coats are so shiny

 

[Missy]

I just love your goats. Beautiful!

 

[daisychick]

Can't wait for babies.