Angora Goat Thread!!

Roving Jacobs

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I have 5 adult angoras and 4 kids, both colored and white. They're crazy and way more work than my sheep but I love them anyway and my mohair sells really well.

The kids:

Heath, the chocolate buckling


Heath naked testing out my homemade olor. I'm doing preg tests next month so we'll see how it worked.


As a bitty baby


Ginger, the red doeling




The white twins, Pearl and Opal. They carry spots!


 
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The big white girls:

Electra




Her daughter Iphigenia (Iph for short), quite possibly the dumbest goat ever.




Dido, Electra's sister


Dido and little Iph
 

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The colored girls, Angela was born red and Tootsie was born chocolate but they've both faded a lot.

Angela, Heath's mom




Tootsie, Ginger's mom


 

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no one understands how much i love red angoras! they are the most majestic looking goats. am i right?!
im in love with Ginger
 

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Heath's sire was a gorgeous solid copper even as an adult so I hope I get some nice red kids next year.

Tootsie and the big white girls should be bred this month (if they weren't already :/) and then Ginger and the white doelings will hopefully bred in the spring for fall kids next year. I just want them to grow a bit more first. Heath might carry spots too so I could have spotty kids next fall to go with all my spotty lambs.
 

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I am trying to get my daughter to trade her Jacobs sheep for Angora Goats. I'm a "goatie". :hide She's not going for it! :idunno
The lice on the angoras and the parasite problems are a real challenge though.

@Roving Jacobs- all your sheep and goats are beautiful! Such wonderful stock! :thumbsup
 

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Lice are awful and super common in the angoras. I tried all sorts of stuff to get rid of them but I finally gave frontline spray a shot this year and they're completely gone finally! Parasites haven't been too bad since I started giving them copper boluses either. I think angora folks need to start treating them more like dairy/meat goats and less like sheep and they'd do a lot better.

They're a lot easier to shear with the dog clippers than the sheep!
 

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ginger is magnificiant!!!! somebody must be dumb to say such a lovely Ginger bad!! but who says? none.
 
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