Kidding season at sweet horizon minis

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

@MiniSilkys congrats! Thank you. He really is


@Goat Whisperer thank you!

 

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

Sorry for the goopy hind end. Here is her udder with a 10.5hour fill at 8days fresh. She was easily the most well behaved (besides yelling) doe I've milked. Especially for a FF! She also has much easier teats to milk than any of my other does that I've milked!
(Her teat is fine it's just post kidding goop)

 

[MiniSilkys]

At least your does have good sized teats. Mine have tests so tiny! I will post my pictures I took of my twins on my kidding thread in a few minutes. They look almost alike except one has lighter ears. They are so tiny. I could not find my scale, but would be surprised if they weigh 2 pounds each.

 

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

@MiniSilkys last year all 3 of my does had relatively small teats especially my FF so I am really excited about Lillie lol these 2 weighed 3.5 and 3.9 (sarabi/Luigi) at 3 days old.

 

[MiniSilkys]

I can't seem to find my scale so that I can get weights. But I finally got their pictures loaded and posted. My goats are pygmys so I never will get as much milk as y'all if I did try milking.

 

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

Weighed the kids today and saw what I believe is a good gain.
As everyone has already read Luigi weighed 3.9 lbs @3days old sarabi weighed 3.5 @3days

Luigi weighed in at 5.5# today (10 days old)
Sarabi weighed in at 5#(10 days old)

look at the eyes lol Luigi is in the back

 

[MiniSilkys]

They are looking great and good gains as well. Are you keeping them or selling? Did Luigi turn out to be polled?

 

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

@MiniSilkys thank you! I am keeping sarabi and Luigi is being sold as a wether since i don't know what either Charlie(sire) or Lillie passes to the kids so after I see sarabi's freshening I can decide to keep Lillie's bucks as bucks or wethers (if that makes any sense lol)
I can't feel hornbuds on either of them so far so I'm really not sure. I've been told that it can take up to 3 weeks for buds on doelings to show up but that we should be able to feel on bucklings relatively early but each is different lol

 

[MiniSilkys]

I understand that. The thing with my pygmys is that I never know what their color will be when they are grown.
Belle as kid

Belle as adult

Izzy as kid (brown one)

Izzy as adult

Their colors change.

 

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

The difference in Belle! That's crazy lol