Help!! New goat mommy in CT.

[sadieml]

@Dogma I agree that Nutmeg looks like a spring 2015 girl, not 2 years old. You can weigh them with a bathroom scale, but do so holding them. You know, weigh yourself, then weigh holding them and subtract the difference. That's how I do it, too. I'll weigh our boys tomorrow. We haven't done that in ages.

 

[Latestarter]

Ahhhhh cumon @sadieml you just want to hug on your little friends! It's OK, you can admit it here...

 

[OneFineAcre]

@Dogma I agree that Nutmeg looks like a spring 2015 girl, not 2 years old. You can weigh them with a bathroom scale, but do so holding them. You know, weigh yourself, then weigh holding them and subtract the difference. That's how I do it, too. I'll weigh our boys tomorrow. We haven't done that in ages.

That's how we weigh ours once they are over 20lbs.
Just use a digital kitchen scale for the little ones.

 

[Dogma]

Ahhhhh cumon @sadieml you just want to hug on your little friends! It's OK, you can admit it here...

I admit I loved hugging and holding mine!!!

 

[Southern by choice]

That's how we weigh ours once they are over 20lbs.
Just use a digital kitchen scale for the little ones.

@OneFineAcre - yall need to get a livestock scale! Save your backs and you have alot of goats... not to mention the LGD's now too.
You can get a good one that goes up to 660# for $300.
We love ours!

 

[Dogma]

Measuring my gals tonight was not easy solo... Loose estimates are Ginger 22 inches and Nutmeg 19 inches. I will try again when I have a helper. Again I am so thankful for all of you. Does anyone else fight the urge to bring them into the house and snuggle them?! Lol

 

[sadieml]

Yep, @Latestarter , I do admit I love to hold my baby boys. They're so fluffy now that it's getting cold! I can't get enough of them, they're AWESOME. @Dogma , Mine are still in the garage at night, so I sit in there for a few mins just about every AM & PM just to snuggle.

Just spoke to the breeder yesterday, and he and the other family who got Jannick and Jaeger's brother Cowboy are really looking forward to breeding their does with Jaeger in Feb or March. I'm excited, too, since we will be getting at least 1 of the babies. I don't mind a little line breeding (once or twice, if need be) because they are from good stock, but I would prefer not to. Maybe wherever we get our other doe(s) from we can make a deal to breed the little doe we hope to get from Jaeger's first-fruits. Of course that's a long way off since she won't even be born for another 8 months or so! I really do get ahead of myself sometimes. I know you guys understand how you can just see it all in your head, like it's already done. Okay. I'll slow myself down a little, now.

 

[Southern by choice]

not sayin' a word

 

[OneFineAcre]

@OneFineAcre - yall need to get a livestock scale! Save your backs and you have alot of goats... not to mention the LGD's now too.
You can get a good one that goes up to 660# for $300.
We love ours!

I don't have meat goats so I don't really have a compelling reason to weigh them after they are 7 or 8 months.
Pebbles weighed 45 lbs and Dee weighed 40 lbs when they were about 7 months old. We decided to go ahead and breed them this fall. Pebbles got bred already and I think we are going to breed Dee on her next cycle ( we may try to AI her even though she is a FF but we may use some of Big Browns semen which cost us about $7 per straw instead of some of the $$$ semen we bought , just for practice)
Tira weighed 33 lbs and I don't really remember what Mollases weighed, but we decided they are going to be our dry yearlings for next years fair so they won't get bred until 18 months so not a reason to weigh them really.

 

[Dogma]