Squirrelgirl88
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LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM
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Make that 9.
SmallFarmGirl
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O.k. 10 does. What's the prize????
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20kidsonhill
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I leave the computer for a few hours to do chores, and it costs me 9 does.
We were at two of our favorite stores, Lowes and TSC. getting supplies. Do you know 100 feet extension chord, 12 gauge cost $80? Goodness stuff is expensive these days. We needed two of them.
Now we are headed to our favorite favorite store, August co-op to pick up a ton of feed (40 bags)I ordered earlier this week. Along with a new bottle of vaccine, since I was brilliant enough to leave the other one sit out and get warm. It is $420 for the ton. 16% protein, medicated. made by our feed mill.
50lb bag of rabbit feed
ear tags, we tag males with orange tags, females with white tags,and use a tag pen to write their does number on it, and DOB.
Nu-stock: which is one of my new favorite products for all things that all the skin on the animals. like mites, scraps ect.......
Probably start getting rolled corn, we normally add 1 cup of corn to 3 cups of pelleted feed for the milking does, but since we feed the entire group together, it will be fed to some of the does that are still gestating. I will start out slow with the corn, and just do one cup per every 3 does for know.
We are in debate about adding beet pulp, I probably will go ahead and start adding some though.
We are having a hay problem this year.
Okay ready for the long story:
We got 150 bales of hay earlier in the summer, okay hay, 2nd cutting, Orchard grass, the goats like it. Then at the end of the summer our hay guy brought us a load of timothy hay 3rd cutting, nice hay, bales were 70 lbs or more. Hay was a little wet, and we spread salt on each layer to help with molding. Yup, it molded. So I have been dealing with that for the past month, about half of it is okay, 25 % not great, but usable, the other 25% moldy. But you can't tell until you cut the bale open. Well what am I going to do with 180bales of hay that I have to pick through, what do you do with a 70lb moldy bale of hay you just cut open. Where do you go with it? dispose of it? So we finally called him up and he will give us all new hay to make up for it. Okay, so know we have to load up the moldy hay, haul it back to him, unload, reload good hay and restack the new hay. Looking at it in a positive perspective. It is good exercise.
Well need to go visit the feed store.
Still need to get pictures today.
We were at two of our favorite stores, Lowes and TSC. getting supplies. Do you know 100 feet extension chord, 12 gauge cost $80? Goodness stuff is expensive these days. We needed two of them.
Now we are headed to our favorite favorite store, August co-op to pick up a ton of feed (40 bags)I ordered earlier this week. Along with a new bottle of vaccine, since I was brilliant enough to leave the other one sit out and get warm. It is $420 for the ton. 16% protein, medicated. made by our feed mill.
50lb bag of rabbit feed
ear tags, we tag males with orange tags, females with white tags,and use a tag pen to write their does number on it, and DOB.
Nu-stock: which is one of my new favorite products for all things that all the skin on the animals. like mites, scraps ect.......
Probably start getting rolled corn, we normally add 1 cup of corn to 3 cups of pelleted feed for the milking does, but since we feed the entire group together, it will be fed to some of the does that are still gestating. I will start out slow with the corn, and just do one cup per every 3 does for know.
We are in debate about adding beet pulp, I probably will go ahead and start adding some though.
We are having a hay problem this year.
Okay ready for the long story:
We got 150 bales of hay earlier in the summer, okay hay, 2nd cutting, Orchard grass, the goats like it. Then at the end of the summer our hay guy brought us a load of timothy hay 3rd cutting, nice hay, bales were 70 lbs or more. Hay was a little wet, and we spread salt on each layer to help with molding. Yup, it molded. So I have been dealing with that for the past month, about half of it is okay, 25 % not great, but usable, the other 25% moldy. But you can't tell until you cut the bale open. Well what am I going to do with 180bales of hay that I have to pick through, what do you do with a 70lb moldy bale of hay you just cut open. Where do you go with it? dispose of it? So we finally called him up and he will give us all new hay to make up for it. Okay, so know we have to load up the moldy hay, haul it back to him, unload, reload good hay and restack the new hay. Looking at it in a positive perspective. It is good exercise.
Well need to go visit the feed store.
Still need to get pictures today.
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20kidsonhill
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Well, worked on some photos today. First of all, you wont see any shaved rear ends or udders on the girls. We don't do that.
Secondly, I need to check my goats for lice. I noticed while looking through the pictures that I took today, that there are a lot of does licking and itching themselves. Could be that as your skin stretches from being pregnant you get itchy, or perhaps they are just anxious to lick those babies.
I believe snowball will kid first. Just a guess on my part. There are really at least 4 that could go anytime now.
Snowball:
Nova: Although she isnt' as impressively big, is due on Tuesday.
Galloway doe: This doe could nurse quads, and from the looks of her, she may just be carrying them. She had triplets her last two times kidding. Actually her only two times kidding, had to be pulled both times and had 2 deformed kids the first time and 1 deformed kid the 2nd time. She isn't as old as she looks, she is 4 years old.
Dancer: Huge, really is the only word that can describe her.
Secondly, I need to check my goats for lice. I noticed while looking through the pictures that I took today, that there are a lot of does licking and itching themselves. Could be that as your skin stretches from being pregnant you get itchy, or perhaps they are just anxious to lick those babies.
I believe snowball will kid first. Just a guess on my part. There are really at least 4 that could go anytime now.
Snowball:
Nova: Although she isnt' as impressively big, is due on Tuesday.
Galloway doe: This doe could nurse quads, and from the looks of her, she may just be carrying them. She had triplets her last two times kidding. Actually her only two times kidding, had to be pulled both times and had 2 deformed kids the first time and 1 deformed kid the 2nd time. She isn't as old as she looks, she is 4 years old.
Dancer: Huge, really is the only word that can describe her.
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20kidsonhill
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Up next, I believe is going to be any ones guess, although I have a general idea who the next 3 or 4 could be.
Indie: the paint doe to the right. This doe makes a huge scene when she goes into labor and spend 2 to 4 hours screaming and banging her head into the walls in the barn. Never seen another doe act like this. She has always had twins, One doe and one buck.
Indie with her daughter Pepper:
Pepper:
Sparky:
sparky with her rear to the camera:
Indie: the paint doe to the right. This doe makes a huge scene when she goes into labor and spend 2 to 4 hours screaming and banging her head into the walls in the barn. Never seen another doe act like this. She has always had twins, One doe and one buck.
Indie with her daughter Pepper:
Pepper:
Sparky:
sparky with her rear to the camera:
jodief100
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So looking forward to seeing these kids. 
Hubby wants to know what you have on your tube gates and how you attach it. The bucks keep ripping off the fencing we have wired on them.
Hubby wants to know what you have on your tube gates and how you attach it. The bucks keep ripping off the fencing we have wired on them.
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20kidsonhill
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I will ask my husband what it is called, but your kikos are probably harder on stuff than our boer bucks. Although Goldman is working it over pretty well.jodief100 said:So looking forward to seeing these kids.
Hubby wants to know what you have on your tube gates and how you attach it. The bucks keep ripping off the fencing we have wired on them.
We talked about the fencing and we have no magic solution, we mostly use outdoor zip ties, the black ones, and use a lot of them. Sometimes we use wire to tire it on. We have 4x4 fencing(the stuff that comes in a roll) on the one gate where the bucks are, but it is getting bent up a little bit.
the best is 4x4 panels(hard wire) and double them up on one side, so the holes are cutting each hole in half. Then lots and lots of zip ties and wire.
At able acres he had double and triple panels on all his pens. It was like a fortress. He was using wire, because in a couple places you could see where the goats had started knocking the wire tie loose and they said they have to go through and replace and fix it every know and again.
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20kidsonhill
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Tori and Nibbles are dear to our hearts and the oldest does on the farm. We brought them home from a dairy farm in PA when they were 3 months old. They are now 9 years and 1 month.
Tori has to be due in the next week or two, but I am pretty sure Nibbles was missed and isnt' due for another 3 to 4 weeks, Just a guess on my part, I do not have a breeding date on either one.
Tori in back, Nibbles in front
Can you see the tongue? Tori in back, NIbbles in front
Tori on the right, nibbles on the left:
Tori has to be due in the next week or two, but I am pretty sure Nibbles was missed and isnt' due for another 3 to 4 weeks, Just a guess on my part, I do not have a breeding date on either one.
Tori in back, Nibbles in front
Can you see the tongue? Tori in back, NIbbles in front
Tori on the right, nibbles on the left:
