LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[20kidsonhill]

Hot Mamma rejected her 2nd born, and we put her on a bottle, First bottle baby I have had in at least 3 or 4 years. But what are you going to do. Not looking forward to getting up at 2am. We went ahead and took her right away from Hot Mamma, we are worried she will injure her, she wont let her near the other doeling or herself.

That stinks. Well, If you don't wonna bottle feed!

I think I may keep her, but she will be priced at $400

 

[20kidsonhill]

Did some weights, One thing I learned is my 12 month old full blood does need to do some maturing still to keep up with the older does in the herd. Hopefully once the kids get on creepfeed, I will see some faster growth rates.

The heaviest kid is Indie's buckling at 27 lbs at 31 days of age, giving him a .53 daily gain. And Indies doeling was at 23 lbs and .44 daily gain.
The best daily weight gain goes to P79, who is a single, he weighs 24.5 lbs and is 22 days old and has a .77 daily weight gain.


I would have liked to seen more in the .5 to .6 range, I had several in the range of .45 daily gain,

Snowball's bucks A and B where 23.2 and 20 lbs at 28 days of age with daily gains of .51 and .45

Dancer's fullblood bucks were at 18 and 19 lbs at 20 days of age, with daily gains of .42 and .44

The young full-blood does macy and glory are averaging .25 daily gains on their kids. kind of pitiful, but not shocking from 12 month olds that aren't dairy goats, nursing twins. They have smaller udders, hopefully for their next freshening they will milk better and we can just do the best we can with these kids once they get on creepfeed.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We put the entire farm on coccidiosis prevention and we are treating one kid for scours that is 4 weeks old with sulfa-dimethoxine orally. the rest of the farm is getting it in their drinking water. We will do 6 days on and 3 weeks off. While the kids grow and through the wet spring weather. So once a month.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Got a few new pictures yesterday, I am always amazed at how much better the kids look on Holly Berry than what she actually looks like. I still haven't gotten pictures of Hot mamma's kids, I took some, but they were sleepy and just kept going and laying down. So I will have to try again later. The bottle baby is on 5 bottles a day of 8 ounces, with her last bottle of the day at 10 pm being 10 ounces. I am already tired of bottle feeding and it has been less than a week. We choose to do the whole milk, buttermilk and evaporated milk recipe. and when she is a couple weeks old we may cut down to 4 bottles a day. My husband wants to get a bag of milk replacer for her, He doesn't want to keep spending $4 a gallon on milk for her. I will work on pictures of her.

One of Holly Berries doelings, The other one is almost identical to this one.

This is Pepper's doeling, I am in love with this doeling. Well, I am in love with a lot of them. So hard to decide.

Annie's first born buckling is coming along nicely. I love his obvious smoothness in this photo. The runt is the smallest kid in the barnyard, next to Hot mamma's new kids. (runt not shown)

And Lorily's(prolapse does) kids are really coming along nicely, like they normally do. I was really not ready to get rid of this doe.
(Doe)

(Doe and buckling)

 

[autumnprairie]

 

[RPC]

We have a cheap grocery store up here called aldi's I don't know if you guys have them down there. Milk was only 1.79 a gallon there and its 4 at walmart. So we always went there to get the kids milk.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We have a cheap grocery store up here called aldi's I don't know if you guys have them down there. Milk was only 1.79 a gallon there and its 4 at walmart. So we always went there to get the kids milk.

My sister lives in WI, and she loves shopping at Aldi's. She talks about it all the time.


We have a Sharp Shoppers that is really good with prices of some things, They get like dented boxes, and things that are close or expired. I go there all the time. But they are hit and miss what they have. You never know what bargain you may find. Keebler graham crackers for .99 a box. Ice cream for 1.50 a quart. they sell milk all the time, but it is even more expensive than walmart.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Looks like I will have more regular help on the farm. My 19 year old broke up with her boyfriend and moved back in. Only came back with a new dog, Better than a new baby.

She has horrible taste in boys. But I think I see a small light at the end of the tunnel. I can tell she realized with this relationship that you can't change people, at least not very easily. She loves dating the fixer up kind of guy.

 

[RainySunday]

Yay for more help! And for learning from life! I bet you will enjoy having her near, and the help. I know after our kidding last night I laid there in bed thinking..."Ican't imagine what we'd do if we had 20 does all due like some of these folks do..." There aren;t enough towels in the world...lol

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

Pepper's doeling looks like she has brown heart on her leg. You have such beautiful babies. The colorings, and their builds are perfect!