LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[20kidsonhill]

The girls wanted to start introducing themselves and show off their baby bumps. First onse are due end of January, so this is a little premature, with most of them due in February and first half of March, and 4 or 5 due in April and May.

Going to be a long kidding season. This year we started out using two young bucks. So the majority of the does are bred to them. We decided we didn't really like either one of them all that much and it was time to step up and improve our genetics. So we took a trip and purchased two more bucks. So there are 5 to 7 hopefully bred to these young bucks. Time will tell. With the first one being due 3rd week of february.

Time for the girls to say hello:

Hello: We are Tina(grey) and Pippi(tan). We are 9 years old and 50% boer/50% nubian. Hope you enjoy meeting the girls in our herd.

The girls, 14 of them that are in the back pasture, they are all 3 years and older and all are commercial and percentage boer does.
due starting the end of January

In the barn and front pasture, Is Prooved It, one of our new full blood bucks and 11 of the girls mostly 2 years and under. A mix of full-bloods and percentages. Due starting middle of february.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Hi I am Pippi: 50% boer/50% nubian
I am due in February.

Nova on the right is one of my daughters: 75% boer/25%nubian (on the left is Lorily)

and again Nova on the right: looking very pregnant and due feb 1st. (black doe on left is Sparky)

(edited: oops, got the wrong name.)

 

[jodief100]

I stilll LOVE Pippi! She is such a nice looking doe.

Can't wait for babies!!!!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Hi I am Tori. I am 50% boer/Nubian and due in February. (on right)
Snowball is on the left

this is my daughter Lorily, you met her in another picture with Nova. She is going on 5 or 6 years old and is 75%boer/nubian. bred september 25th. Due near the end of February.

This is my granddaughter, Galloway, and daughter to Lorily. She is 88%boer/12nubian and due beginning of february. Yes, she gets huge. Triplets the last two times she kidded, she is going on 4 years old, but both times she had a deformed kid and needed assisting kidding. This will be her last kidding season with us, if things don't go better.

galloway doe, closest to the camera on right. Indie is the paint doe on the left.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Dancer is looking rather round, and due beginning of February, she is 5 years old full-blood. We purchased her a year ago. And her full-blood buckling, born last October is being used as one of our herd sires, and is bred to several of the does.

Here he is 4 months old. "TWISTER"

He is needing some work right now. I am sad to say he got really run down after breeding and we are now working on getting him back in shape.

Here he is at a 12 months old, and in the sick pen, He is recovering, but will take some time.

 

[neener92]

You have some very nice looking does, and they have some very cute baby bumps!

 

[ksj0225]

Please don't let dancer dance... She may fall down!!! I love the "round" ones!!!! LOL!!!

 

[20kidsonhill]

I stilll LOVE Pippi! She is such a nice looking doe.

Can't wait for babies!!!!

You couldn't ask for a doe to hold up better over the years. Her legs, her udder, never has had a problem kidding. Hasn't been wormed since last fall(2010). Her biggest down fall as a doe in a meat goat herd is she eats a lot to maintain her 180lbs. I have other does that eat a quit a bit less.

 

[20kidsonhill]

You have some very nice looking does, and they have some very cute baby bumps!

thankyou, if you are in the area, come and visit.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Please don't let dancer dance... She may fall down!!! I love the "round" ones!!!! LOL!!!

I hope I get a girl from her this year, and she has twins, she only had a single last time. She was pretty big then, also. And he was 12.5lbs. Poor thing pushed and pushed.