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

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Here are some updated photos. We cleaned out our barn last weekend, and rearranged the girls. There are 18 in the barn, 16 I know are bred, one not sure when she is due, and another I am pretty sure is open. There are 5 young does and two meat wethers out in a side field. These young does should be due the end of March or beginning of April.

In no particular order:
Peaches bred by Twister and due beginning of January:I think she is going on 3 years old
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Tori Ann bred by twister and due beginning of January:\(10 year old) and 10th kidding
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Star bred by twister and due beginning of January:(5 years old, and we lost her kids last year)
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Nova bred by twister and due beginning of January: I think she is also going on 3 years old
In this picture, Indie is also showing off her baby bump. indie always gets miserable looking. Nova is easily spooked and although she does okay kidding, I have to keep a close eye on her, she panics easily.
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Nova near the front of the picture and star in the back. Nova is hard to get pictures of, she doesn't trust me. Both my black headed does are jumpy and nervous. The boards are what we use to build our kidding pens and creep feed area, the barn just has feeders in it right now.
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Little B and Haley are the same age, both going to be 2 year old and both 2nd fresheners. Little B and Haley are bred to Twister and due beginning of January.
they are as follows from Right to left, Little B, Haley then Glory(open) then Snowball is due end of January and bred to Goldman.
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From left to right:
Pepper bred to Prooved it and Indie(pepper's dam) also bred to Prooved It and due beginning of January, Daisy on the end bred to Goldman and due end of January, Daisy gets huge. Indie is going on 6 or 7 years old and looks young for her age. Pepper I believe is going on 5 years old, she was from indies first set of kids.
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Daisy and DAncer, both full blood does, bred to Goldman and due end of January.
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Some of the girls hanging around outside.
Aunt B in the front of the photo, should be bred to Goldman, but not sure of due date, Paint doe laying down is another one of Indie's daughters, going on 3 years old and 3rd freshening she is also due beginning of Jan. Peaches is grooming herself and a doe that never got named that I know refer to her as P79, is also going to be 3 years old and 3rd kidding, I reallly really like this doe, but she has only ever given me a single buckling, 2 times now, she really needs to start having twins. she is bred to Goldman and I can't wait to see these kids. If she has a doe, I am planning on retaining one. If P79 has males they are going to be really nice wethers.
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P79
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Also P79, big doe walking towards camera, small doe is fuzzball, our special project, she is going on 2 years old, and stunted from not getting enough milk when she was little. I was hoping she would get bigger. She has a ton of ennoblements in her pedigree and I am hoping she throws that potential to her kids. She is bred to Prooved it and due to kid the beginning of January, she looks to be only carrying a single. The paint doe is Annie and also in the back ground behind fuzzball with her head in the feeder is another 2 year old Full blood doe, Glory, she is also due in the beginning of January and bred to Prooved It. She is for sure looking to be carrying at least twins, maybe even triplets.
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some barn pictures from across the barn
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the other direction
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a farm mascot
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another farm mascot: not as brave as the first on. she wont come in by the goats. She is a chicken. Actually Dancer hates dogs and so the dogs wont go in by Dancer.
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on the side of the barn
Thelma, is Aunt B's doeling from her kidding in May. She is a cutie, but not as big as she should be. Also two buckling from Daisy from a kidding in June. They are growing nicely, one is sold and being held for someone and the other we are hoping to consign in a May sale.
The two bucks, Goldman and Prooved It in the field, Twister has been sold and moved to his new farm.
and another farm mascot, Rocky. Nope not the same little dog that was in the barn.
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Thanks for posting those photos of your goats and your fantastic barn.

What a blessed person you are!! Lotsa goats and a BIG barn.

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DonnaBelle said:
OHHHHH and a manure spreader!!!

I'm soooooo jealous!!

DonnaBelle
That is borrowed from my father n' law, he purchased a used one for the family to use it, the tractor is his also, we have a large lawn mower type tractor. not anything nearly as big as the one in the front of the manure spreader. So when we bring the tractor over, (about 8 miles away) we also do other little jobs with it, like moving dirt, or cutting a broken branch off of a tree.

But thank you, we are very very blessed and love our little farm.
 

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Got the kidding pens set up. and gave CD&T shots and BoSe shots, Will have to do the Bose shots again. I didn't realize how low my supply was, so we just gave everyone 2 cc's and I will get some more and give it again in 3 week sor so. Sure the does will love that.
Everyone looked pretty good.
Got another 1,200 lb round bale of Orchard grass hay. Pain to feed, but saves on my expensive square bales.
Everyone is on free choice hay at this time and each one is getting 1 lb of grain a day.
They have also been treated with 4G aureomycin crumbles for a couple weeks. But I stopped for know and will probably start giving them some more in a few days.

I am concerned about Daisy and DAncer being on so much feed so soon, they are due 3 weeks later than the first group. They really do not need all that extra feed. Last year they both had twins that weighed 10 to 12 lbs each.

Hope everyone is having a great December.
 

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20kidsonhill said:
Got the kidding pens set up. and gave CD&T shots and BoSe shots, Will have to do the Bose shots again. I didn't realize how low my supply was, so we just gave everyone 2 cc's and I will get some more and give it again in 3 week sor so. Sure the does will love that.
Everyone looked pretty good.
Got another 1,200 lb round bale of Orchard grass hay. Pain to feed, but saves on my expensive square bales.
Everyone is on free choice hay at this time and each one is getting 1 lb of grain a day.
They have also been treated with 4G aureomycin crumbles for a couple weeks. But I stopped for know and will probably start giving them some more in a few days.

I am concerned about Daisy and DAncer being on so much feed so soon, they are due 3 weeks later than the first group. They really do not need all that extra feed. Last year they both had twins that weighed 10 to 12 lbs each.

Hope everyone is having a great December.
What is the aureomycin crumbles for?
 

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marlowmanor said:
20kidsonhill said:
Got the kidding pens set up. and gave CD&T shots and BoSe shots, Will have to do the Bose shots again. I didn't realize how low my supply was, so we just gave everyone 2 cc's and I will get some more and give it again in 3 week sor so. Sure the does will love that.
Everyone looked pretty good.
Got another 1,200 lb round bale of Orchard grass hay. Pain to feed, but saves on my expensive square bales.
Everyone is on free choice hay at this time and each one is getting 1 lb of grain a day.
They have also been treated with 4G aureomycin crumbles for a couple weeks. But I stopped for know and will probably start giving them some more in a few days.

I am concerned about Daisy and DAncer being on so much feed so soon, they are due 3 weeks later than the first group. They really do not need all that extra feed. Last year they both had twins that weighed 10 to 12 lbs each.

Hope everyone is having a great December.
What is the aureomycin crumbles for?
Can I get away with saying it is a "trick of the trade." ;)
 

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20kidsonhill said:
marlowmanor said:
20kidsonhill said:
Got the kidding pens set up. and gave CD&T shots and BoSe shots, Will have to do the Bose shots again. I didn't realize how low my supply was, so we just gave everyone 2 cc's and I will get some more and give it again in 3 week sor so. Sure the does will love that.
Everyone looked pretty good.
Got another 1,200 lb round bale of Orchard grass hay. Pain to feed, but saves on my expensive square bales.
Everyone is on free choice hay at this time and each one is getting 1 lb of grain a day.
They have also been treated with 4G aureomycin crumbles for a couple weeks. But I stopped for know and will probably start giving them some more in a few days.

I am concerned about Daisy and DAncer being on so much feed so soon, they are due 3 weeks later than the first group. They really do not need all that extra feed. Last year they both had twins that weighed 10 to 12 lbs each.

Hope everyone is having a great December.
What is the aureomycin crumbles for?
Can I get away with saying it is a "trick of the trade." ;)
Sure. ;) I'll have to look it up. Doubt it's something I'll use but I'm curious now, never heard of it.
 

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marlowmanor said:
20kidsonhill said:
marlowmanor said:
What is the aureomycin crumbles for?
Can I get away with saying it is a "trick of the trade." ;)
Sure. ;) I'll have to look it up. Doubt it's something I'll use but I'm curious now, never heard of it.
I was just testing you to see if you would let me get away with that. LOL. I am in one of those moods. You were suppose to say "NO," but you are so polite. LOL

We use it for several reasons.
initially we started using it one year when we had several abortions, that was a fun year. Know we use it every year, because not only does it help with any possible kidding diseases, but it also helps with evenly sized kids and big healthy kids as well as helping our does with snotty noses and problems with pnuemonia this time of year. It is affordable, and so know we do it every year, for the last 5 weeks or so of gestation. The hard part is, not all my does are due the same time, so I often give it for 1 or 2 weeks on and a week or two off, it is given at a prevention level and not treatment level. It is similar to giving a low does of LA 200 daily, but we all know how our goats would love that.
It is also a growth inhibitor, some people feed it to growing calves, lambs, ect...... again at a low dosage. We stop feeding it, when most our does have kidded. So some of the does are getting it even after they have kidded.

Can't be given too early in the pregnancy, although one year my herd had rain rot and developed horrible head colds, then pnuemonia and pink eye. And many were only 3 to 4 weeks bred. We used it then, rather than giving 20 plus goats LA 200 shots for 5 days straight, They were given it at the treatment level for 5 days. The sickest couple does also received a couple LA 200 shots to asure they were getting enough medication. Everyone got better, and there wasn't anything abnormal about the kids when they were born.
 
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