Frustratedearthmother's 2025 Kidding Thread

[rachels.haven]

I have never owned a polled goat in all my years of owning goats. Would be nice because there's nothing that I hate worse than disbudding. Hate it, hate it, hate it!

x2, Do you mind the weird shaped heads it gives them? Although personally I might be willing to tolerate that if we could just have whole polled breeds of goat. Burning is the worst.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

x2, Do you mind the weird shaped heads it gives them? Although personally I might be willing to tolerate that if we could just have whole polled breeds of goat. Burning is the worst.

I'm so accustomed to flat heads that it seems normal to me, lol. I have 4 horned goats now and it has totally changed the dynamic of my herd. The flat headed girls aren't too fond of the pokey-headed girls. Sometimes I'm tempted to forgo disbudding but then I'm reminded of how destructive horns are to the infrastructure around here. However, the last few years I've stopped disbudding the bucklings that I know will have a short life. The buyers of those guys like horns and danglies.

 

[rachels.haven]

I'm so accustomed to flat heads that it seems normal to me, lol. I have 4 horned goats now and it has totally changed the dynamic of my herd. The flat headed girls aren't too fond of the pokey-headed girls. Sometimes I'm tempted to forgo disbudding but then I'm reminded of how destructive horns are to the infrastructure around here. However, the last few years I've stopped disbudding the bucklings that I know will have a short life. The buyers of those guys like horns and danglies.

This is a characteristic polled head. Her name is Zelda, but i call her Snooter.

The way her head is shaped she always looks angry or unimpressed at best.

Polled heads add another dimension of weirdness and they're supposed to get lumpier if you cross polled to polled.
That's what i meant by if you were okay with the polled head shape. I didn't pick my polled goats because they were polled but now I get to look at them.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

The way her head is shaped she always looks angry or unimpressed at best.

I have zero experience with polled goats, but you're right - she does have that po'd look about her, lol. Perpetual stink eye!

Two more deliveries yesterday. I'd been waiting anxiously for babies from the Myotonic buck and the high percentage Boer doe. I was hoping for b/d twins and that's what I got. Pretty babies and the first solid colored baby (the doeling) from the big spotty guy.

The other delivery was from Luna who was big enough to have about 16 babies in there. She had a single buckling... geeze! These girls like to mess with me.

Two more does in this group to go. Pebbles - a Luna daughter and Blackie who's been around for years. Blackie has never disappointed - she consistently has awesome kids.

4 doelings, 4 bucklings