Alibo
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Oh they are soo cute! Just love those ears! Thank you for sharing
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Goatgirl47
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Thank you and your welcome!
Annie is a French Alpine, and she just turned 1 year old. She is probably my least hardiest goat. She will just not gain any (ok, maybe she has gained a little in the last few months) weight! We sold her sister (and her mother), and she was actually the better of the two. I look forward to hopefully breeding her to a Kiko buck to get some big hardy babies!
Sage is my younger sister's goat. She is a 9-month-old Saanen. She is in great condition, although she has had a gross snotty nose since we got her (about a month ago).
As you can see, she was one of the goats we had to feed while we were taking her pictures, she doesn't know how to stay still.
Annie is a French Alpine, and she just turned 1 year old. She is probably my least hardiest goat. She will just not gain any (ok, maybe she has gained a little in the last few months) weight! We sold her sister (and her mother), and she was actually the better of the two. I look forward to hopefully breeding her to a Kiko buck to get some big hardy babies!
Sage is my younger sister's goat. She is a 9-month-old Saanen. She is in great condition, although she has had a gross snotty nose since we got her (about a month ago).
As you can see, she was one of the goats we had to feed while we were taking her pictures, she doesn't know how to stay still. - Thread starter
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Goatgirl47
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Captain Blamey is our buckling. He is a full-sized Lamancha, and is about 5-months-old.
Midge is our only Mini goat. She's a Mini-Lamancha, and will be 1-year-old in April. Her and Annie were born and raised on our farm. She will probably be my hardiest goat. Her mom, Kendall, didn't need any grain, but then one day soon after she kidded she got a tiny - actually it was big, Kendall never took tiny bites - bite of Clover's (Annie's mom's) grain and from that day on she despised her own alfalfa pellet/kelp/black oil sunflower seed mix. I refused to give her grain though, wanting her to eat her own great food. But, alas, she got super thin in just about a week (she somehow had the power to get thin in just days when she thought she wasn't getting enough food) so I caved in and gave her the grain! And, what do you know, she got fatter very quickly after that, LOL. She was the hard-to-please kind of goat.
Look at Midge's little beard!
Midge is our only Mini goat. She's a Mini-Lamancha, and will be 1-year-old in April. Her and Annie were born and raised on our farm. She will probably be my hardiest goat. Her mom, Kendall, didn't need any grain, but then one day soon after she kidded she got a tiny - actually it was big, Kendall never took tiny bites - bite of Clover's (Annie's mom's) grain and from that day on she despised her own alfalfa pellet/kelp/black oil sunflower seed mix. I refused to give her grain though, wanting her to eat her own great food. But, alas, she got super thin in just about a week (she somehow had the power to get thin in just days when she thought she wasn't getting enough food) so I caved in and gave her the grain! And, what do you know, she got fatter very quickly after that, LOL. She was the hard-to-please kind of goat.
Look at Midge's little beard!
Alibo
Loving the herd life
they are precious! I love the little bells on the collar. Will you be able to breed midge to your new buck with the size difference or are you planning on a smaller buck for her?
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And last but not least, there is Verity, our full-sized Lamancha! She's just about two weeks younger then Midge. She is like a big puppy, always wanting to be rubbed and petted everywhere! She's our only goat with wattles. She's also the second plumpest goat (Midge is the fattest, hehe).
I am curious, what do you feed each of your goats? And how many times per day if you do? I am trying to get a better feeding schedule going. Since we sold Clover, Kendall, Lulu (Clover's other doeling), Eddie (Kendall's wether), and Sebastian (a Nigerian Dwarf buckling), we've just been feeding our goats a scoop full of alfalfa hay in the mornings. But we just went to TSC yesterday and got calf pellets (I've heard people feed their goats that on this forum to help them grow and gain more weight) and alfalfa pellets to feed each goat individually.
I am curious, what do you feed each of your goats? And how many times per day if you do? I am trying to get a better feeding schedule going. Since we sold Clover, Kendall, Lulu (Clover's other doeling), Eddie (Kendall's wether), and Sebastian (a Nigerian Dwarf buckling), we've just been feeding our goats a scoop full of alfalfa hay in the mornings. But we just went to TSC yesterday and got calf pellets (I've heard people feed their goats that on this forum to help them grow and gain more weight) and alfalfa pellets to feed each goat individually.
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We put those bells on their collars so that when we let them free-range in the evenings we can more easily locate them.
I don't know what I am going to breed Midge to. Maybe a Nigerian Dwarf? I would like to breed her to Cap, but I think I am just going to wait and see how big she gets. She's about 75 percent Lamancha, and 25 percent Nigerian Dwarf.
Alibo
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I only feed grain to my pregnant and milking does. So once a day to the pregnant does and then twice for my milkers only if I am milking them twice a day. It is a 16% protien feed with not enough fat for my liking. It contains BOSS and alfalfa along with other grains. I get it straight from the mill that makes it and it has very little corn so I am sticking with it for now and looking into adding a fat supplement to fatten up my thinner girls.
Other than that they have free choice hay and two pastures that we rotate.
Our boys and donkey get only the grass and hay and do fine on that. They lose a small amount of weight during the heaviest rut, but since I run them with my does all year it is over very quickly and they put the weight back on.
And loose minerals and backing soda always available. I also offer them diatomaceous earth from time to time, sometimes they pass by it other times they can't get enough.
I will let you know if I finally find a goodress fat supplement that works
Other than that they have free choice hay and two pastures that we rotate.
Our boys and donkey get only the grass and hay and do fine on that. They lose a small amount of weight during the heaviest rut, but since I run them with my does all year it is over very quickly and they put the weight back on.
And loose minerals and backing soda always available. I also offer them diatomaceous earth from time to time, sometimes they pass by it other times they can't get enough.
I will let you know if I finally find a goodress fat supplement that works
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I don't know that I'd breed that doe to a Kiko- a meat goat. She is already small, and Kikos can throw some big kids.
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I probably won't unless she fattens up. I just saw a HUGE Kiko buck on Craigslist, and now I know how big they can get. 
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I had a loose goat mineral out for the goats but when our calves moved in with our goats they kept eating it. 
So then we put together a little 'mineral room' in a vacant dog kennel. We made sure that the calves couldn't get in, and then we put more minerals and kelp in some containers for them to eat, but they keep putting their front legs up in them and getting the minerals/kelp dirty. 
They've gotten better at it though.
@Alibo, have you ever gotten the goat protein pail from TSC? My goats love it, and, unbelievably, don't jump up in it.
So then we put together a little 'mineral room' in a vacant dog kennel. We made sure that the calves couldn't get in, and then we put more minerals and kelp in some containers for them to eat, but they keep putting their front legs up in them and getting the minerals/kelp dirty. They've gotten better at it though.@Alibo, have you ever gotten the goat protein pail from TSC? My goats love it, and, unbelievably, don't jump up in it.
