jodief100
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They are sooo cute! I love LaMancha babies...... 
CrazyCatNChickenLady's Pictures: Lots of new pics pg 5 and 6!
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Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
So happy for you getting out of there and into a happier place. Your goats are too cute!
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CrazyCatNChickenLady
Ridin' The Range
I LOVE the kids!! They're really fun and extremely funny! Who needs TV when you have 4 one-week-old lamancha kids and an almost 8 week old nigerian baby! Rocky, the nigerian is SUPER SPOILED! I have some pics of him I took today. He's scared of the babies because they're taller then him and run at him looking for his udder. They're slighly taller and longer then he is just not nearly as heavy! They're pretty much all legs, but he doesn't realize that!
We spent $326 today on a 330' roll of field fence and 32 6' t-posts! Also got corner supports, t-post wire nubbins(lol! I dont know what they're called. The little wire peices that attach the fence to the t-posts!) I'm happy about it but not really! I dont think I will be doing my happy dance until the fence is actually done!
I get a doe pen, buck pen, AND a kid pen!! 
:bun He requested a week off in febuary so we have time to move everything and we're gonna rent a big flat bed truck (it has a 22'x8' flatbed.) to move my coops and goat shelters. We'll be giving notice when we pay the rent here in a couple days.
I have some new pics of the babies! I need to upload them!
Oh and I built a stanchion recently. I'll have to post pics of that too.
We spent $326 today on a 330' roll of field fence and 32 6' t-posts! Also got corner supports, t-post wire nubbins(lol! I dont know what they're called. The little wire peices that attach the fence to the t-posts!) I'm happy about it but not really! I dont think I will be doing my happy dance until the fence is actually done!
I get a doe pen, buck pen, AND a kid pen!! :bun He requested a week off in febuary so we have time to move everything and we're gonna rent a big flat bed truck (it has a 22'x8' flatbed.) to move my coops and goat shelters. We'll be giving notice when we pay the rent here in a couple days. I have some new pics of the babies! I need to upload them!
Oh and I built a stanchion recently. I'll have to post pics of that too.
Southern by choice
Herd Master
Ok I was really LOL... so I read your post aloud and then everyone else LOL!
T-post clips= nubbins
Those babies are too freakin cute! They are gonna be ROTTEN!!!
T-post clips= nubbins
Those babies are too freakin cute! They are gonna be ROTTEN!!!
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CrazyCatNChickenLady
Ridin' The Range
Here's Rocky! He's pretty much growing horns and I'm pretty bummed the disbudding went bad. I just ordered my own disbudding iron today (shipped 2-Day cause I NEED to do these lamancha babies ASAP!)
The way I knew the girl I got him from is because she came up and disbudded my 4 dairy bucklings last year. She also disbudded Squirt and she has no scurs at all. Rocky was done at 9 days old with pretty big buds.. She put it off til the day I picked him up so maybe thats why..
A little blurry but the only one for size comparason. 7 1/2 week old nigerian dwarf and a week old lamancha kid!
He doesn't like the babies! lol
And this is Mcgee (or McGoo! ) He's my favorite!! 
Following dbf checking if he has more milk!
I also have pictures of the bad lamancha! This is Squirt. Seems like she EXTRA bratty lately.
I still love her dearly though. Wouldn't trade her for the world!
The stanchion isnt quite done yet. I have 1 more board to attach but ran out of screws. Got more today so I'll finish it when it stops raining!
Honey: Lol dont mind the bucket. It was just to see if it worked.
These pictures were before I added the bucket holder. They were all modeling for me and I was treat training them to hop up there!
Honey again. She's Lamancha/Alpine maybe.
Buttermilk. She's supposed to be 50% lamancha, 25% saanen, 25% alpine. Her and Honey have sure come far since I've had them! Very happy with how well they're both putting on weight. (AMAZING what happens when you actually feed your goats enough food! :/ )
Squirt again!
She was standing really funny!
Knuckle Head. The Saanen with the body of a boer! He's already over 30 inches at the withers and he's not even a year old yet.
And Bucky.. He's a 7 month old Alpine. I pretty sure he's getting the job done. All the girls went into heat last sunday(mucosy discharge, pink puffy lady parts) and seemed to have a different discharge a few days later. Not sure how it all works..
He's pretty skinny too and I copper bolused him. He has a horrible coat.
The way I knew the girl I got him from is because she came up and disbudded my 4 dairy bucklings last year. She also disbudded Squirt and she has no scurs at all. Rocky was done at 9 days old with pretty big buds.. She put it off til the day I picked him up so maybe thats why..
A little blurry but the only one for size comparason. 7 1/2 week old nigerian dwarf and a week old lamancha kid!
He doesn't like the babies! lol
And this is Mcgee (or McGoo!
) He's my favorite!!
Following dbf checking if he has more milk!
I also have pictures of the bad lamancha! This is Squirt. Seems like she EXTRA bratty lately.
I still love her dearly though. Wouldn't trade her for the world!The stanchion isnt quite done yet. I have 1 more board to attach but ran out of screws. Got more today so I'll finish it when it stops raining!
Honey: Lol dont mind the bucket. It was just to see if it worked.
These pictures were before I added the bucket holder. They were all modeling for me and I was treat training them to hop up there!
Honey again. She's Lamancha/Alpine maybe.
Buttermilk. She's supposed to be 50% lamancha, 25% saanen, 25% alpine. Her and Honey have sure come far since I've had them! Very happy with how well they're both putting on weight. (AMAZING what happens when you actually feed your goats enough food! :/ )
Squirt again!
She was standing really funny!
Knuckle Head. The Saanen with the body of a boer! He's already over 30 inches at the withers and he's not even a year old yet.
And Bucky.. He's a 7 month old Alpine. I pretty sure he's getting the job done. All the girls went into heat last sunday(mucosy discharge, pink puffy lady parts) and seemed to have a different discharge a few days later. Not sure how it all works..
He's pretty skinny too and I copper bolused him. He has a horrible coat.
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CrazyCatNChickenLady
Ridin' The Range
Southern by choice said:Ok I was really LOL... so I read your post aloud and then everyone else LOL!
T-post clips= nubbins
Those babies are too freakin cute! They are gonna be ROTTEN!!!
Nubbin is a common word here. We have a 'rumpless' (lol bob tailed) cat named Tater nubbin.. Or just plain "Nub". We pet her and always joke around and say "rub-a-nub-nub!!" Here's the Nub-a-nub-nub!
bonbean01
Herd Master
Love all the photos of your lovely critters!!!!
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CrazyCatNChickenLady
Ridin' The Range
Been really busy with the move so I figured I catch up here! Dbf gave notice last sunday with the last rent check. I wasn't there but I guess she was basically like oh what perfect timing. My other house finally sold so I wanna do a bunch of work to the place ['and dont need to put up with all your animals and all your crap for only $450/month so get the he11 out' is what she didn't say! lol!] I'm fine and I dont really care anymore! We got things..ahem, I got things going on one of the goat pens. Last sunday I got 18 t-posts pounded in for a 20ft x25ft "kid pen". Its up by the house and will be for bottle babies, a kidding pen, breeding pen.. you get the point! Then I get a round area thats about 35ft in diameter. That will be the main pen and doe pen. and is a little down the driveway and is in the middle of a clearing of trees (where we usually burn burnpiles) we have 3 heavily wooded acres but we're trying to cause the least damage to the land so we dry lot them and throw fresh cut brush in constantly. Plus they get free choice grass hay along with basically free choice brush. Then eventually we'll need to put up a buck pen when the kids cant be with the does anymore. So I get 3 pens instead of 1 smaller one! 
So far I'm $472 in and still need a few small things and probably more t-posts down the line.. There goes my tax return! I think it will be totally worth it though! I also dont have to pay rent where we're moving because my mom owns the house so that saves $220 a month. 
I was looking and emailing a lady about a bred lamancha. She's a cream color and is bred to a saanen.. I want her but she's 3 hours away from here and about 4+ from the other house.. We're not staying at the new house until sometime the week of the 18th when we can get the shelters and coops and all the animals moved up there.
I also got one wooden gate built and I'm going to modify chainlink hinges and latches for the pens. I'm ready to run the wire for the kid pen but we need to do it on a day we're not already worn out from loading and unloading other stuff.
In the goat world I sold the alpine buck I bought recently along with honey, the lamancha/alpine. Squirts been really sweet the last week or so. This weekend was when she's supposed to be in heat but she's not really acting like she is so hopefully the buck at least got to her. Usually she has clear goopy discharge and pink lady parts during her heat but not this week. I'll send blood in to biotracking in a few weeks to see. Either that or she's now out of season and back to my sweet little girl!!
So far I'm $472 in and still need a few small things and probably more t-posts down the line.. There goes my tax return! I think it will be totally worth it though! I also dont have to pay rent where we're moving because my mom owns the house so that saves $220 a month. I was looking and emailing a lady about a bred lamancha. She's a cream color and is bred to a saanen.. I want her but she's 3 hours away from here and about 4+ from the other house.. We're not staying at the new house until sometime the week of the 18th when we can get the shelters and coops and all the animals moved up there.
I also got one wooden gate built and I'm going to modify chainlink hinges and latches for the pens. I'm ready to run the wire for the kid pen but we need to do it on a day we're not already worn out from loading and unloading other stuff.
In the goat world I sold the alpine buck I bought recently along with honey, the lamancha/alpine. Squirts been really sweet the last week or so. This weekend was when she's supposed to be in heat but she's not really acting like she is so hopefully the buck at least got to her. Usually she has clear goopy discharge and pink lady parts during her heat but not this week. I'll send blood in to biotracking in a few weeks to see. Either that or she's now out of season and back to my sweet little girl!!
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CrazyCatNChickenLady
Ridin' The Range
I also have some goat pics while I'm here! I disbudded all 4 of the boys with figure 8 burns. This was my first time disbudding so I think I got the hang of it by the fourth!! Its going to be sooo hard to decide who to keep as a buck and who to wether. (I'll probably keep 2 intact..)
Rocky hates the babies!!
Here's a couple disbudding pics..
Its going to be sooo hard to decide who to keep as a buck and who to wether. (I'll probably keep 2 intact..)
Rocky hates the babies!!
Here's a couple disbudding pics..
