LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[RPC]

Just so you know my doe that had the miscarriage last week and was 3 months bred kept coming into heat. So maybe your doe is bred just acting weird. Just a thought I wanted to share.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Just so you know my doe that had the miscarriage last week and was 3 months bred kept coming into heat. So maybe your doe is bred just acting weird. Just a thought I wanted to share.

thank you, I will , keep that in mind. But she was breed 5 1/2 months ago, the first time. I recorded 2 more heats every 21 days and breedings after that. Then the bucks were taken out. then a 2 or 3 months after that the fields were moved around and she was sharing a fence line with the bucks again, is when we noticed that she was in heat again. She would have been 4 months bred, and she was looking open. It didn't surprise me.

No sign of her being in heat today, and this is 21 days from when Goldman bred her. I might move her to another group of does and see if it changes anything.

 

[Melissa'sDreamFarm]

Thanks so much for your reply. You have some nice looking udders and teats on those does. Do you milk any of them? My husband wants me to try to milk Jenny. She's so big compared to our ND and those horns make me think my PVC milk stand won't stand a chance, lol.
But could you image all the wonderful milk I would get and yummy cheese I could make.


Melissa

 

[20kidsonhill]

Thanks so much for your reply. You have some nice looking udders and teats on those does. Do you milk any of them? My husband wants me to try to milk Jenny. She's so big compared to our ND and those horns make me think my PVC milk stand won't stand a chance, lol.
But could you image all the wonderful milk I would get and yummy cheese I could make.


Melissa

They have some nice looking teats from the back. and they have lots of nice looking teats from the side, I believe out of the 5 new does, Only one of them is 1x1 teated, 3 of them are 2x2 and The doe that just kidded, Macy, is a lovely 3 x2. yes you read that right. We new it when we purchased her and got a big discount on her. Our thought process being, we do a lot with show wethers, so if we end up with poor teated offspring then we will use them for 4H meat shows and they would be terminal. I have no intentions of milking, other than collecting an emergency milk supply that I keep in the freezer for the next kidding season.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Dancer and her kids, 3 days old, You can see from the pictures the one buck has huge legs and they need some time to strengthen. If he grows into those legs, he is going to be a big boy.



Back right leg is still popping out at the knee.

His brother, who doesn't have weak legs(on left), is constantly trying to spend time with him.

Look at how big his front legs are.

The brother with normal legs.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Golman badly needing a bath and a trim. That is not mud all over his front legs.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Macy and Goldman's kids

The buckllng 1 day old, weighed 7 1/2 lbs at birth.

The doeling 7 1/4 lbs at birth.

doeling stretching, buckling nursing.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Pepper's buck and doeling. Buck is the paint, Doeling is traditional with a spot on leg. They weighed 7 lbs and 8 lbs, plus there was a 7.5 lb triplet doeling that didn't survive.

Buckling is incorrect teated, so we are for sure wethering him. Doeling is 1x1 teated.

 

[20kidsonhill]

this doeling is from Pippi, and is just turning 12 months old, and is due to kid April 16, She will be 15 months old when she kids and is 75% boer/25% nubian.

You can just start seeing a development of an udder, and you can for sure see her puffy vulva.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I really like snowball's triplets. two honey red paint bucklings and the traditional doeling with a spot on her back. They are growing nicely, Both her bucklings last year went to 4H shows and had great daily gains, and placed well in their classes. These bucklings are already showing a lot of potential.