LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[neener92]

I personally think her mouth looks fine! She is a very gorgeous doe!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Picture time


We are having some changes take place this weekend, First we are weaning 11 of the 19 does, the kids will be between 8 and 10 weeks old. Kids will be weaned into a pen on the side of our shed, I believe it will be 22 kids. Does will go up in the back field. That will leave 8 does nursing 17 kids that will still go in and out of the barn, their kids will have access to the creep feed area and their will also be 4 pregnant does in with them. and a young yearling doe that needs to be on grain. I am running out of room on the farm.

Weaned kids will get a Bo-se shot, wormed and weighed. We just had them on a 5 day treatment of Sulfa-dimethoxine in the drinking water. Mom's will be on pasture only that are weaned.

Okay here are some photos

This is Indies buck, he is sold and is going to be someones sires. I sure hope they like him. I now he will be spoiled.

Here he is in the creepfeed zone. right now I am going through 25 lbs of feed a day in the creep feed are, with a total of 37kids.

More pictures of the creep feed area:

this is when there are hardly no goats in it eating.

And after I add more feed:

Some of my young does getting a little extra feed, They have a tendency to hang out by the barn more so it makes it a little easier to catch them in the barn, shut the door and give them an extra lb of feed.

 

[20kidsonhill]

A couple more pregnancy photos. I can't help but worry about Daisy, she is getting bigger by the day and she isn't due until June 23, I keep redoing the math thinking she must be due in May. Although she still hadn't started with an udder yet, so that is a good indicator that she has a few weeks to go, 8 to be exact.

I am coming up with a plan for her, I plan on giving her drenches of Revive recipe and Magic recipe, alternating a couple times a week when she gets closer. http://www.ilmeatgoat.org/Homemade recipes for goats(11).pdf By the way, these are very good recipes and you should be printing them off or saving them.

Sorry I got carried away with the pictures

Our farm dog, Bella. she loves being in the barn with the goats. But one of our goats, Dancer, is mean to her right now, because she has babies on her, and Bella wont come into the barn any more. She just looks over the feeders.

And here is Daisy on the right due in 8 weeks and a 14 month old doe due this weekend on the left. I really need to name this doe. We should have a contest.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

20K, how did you make your creep divider? We are trying to figure out a way to make the entrance so only the babies can get through. Since we originally had a horse training business here, it is set up for horses, so trying to re do it for goats. Have a 6 stall barn, tongue and groove stalls with the barred fronts. 12 x 12's. Kind of large for kidding pens but it's what I have! Also haves 3 sided barns with large paddocks that were for horses also, those have been renoved for goats. But trying to figure a design to make it work better, and really need a way to creep feed. Looks like you made yours, which is what my SIL is good at, but what did you use.

 

[20kidsonhill]

20K, how did you make your creep divider? We are trying to figure out a way to make the entrance so only the babies can get through. Since we originally had a horse training business here, it is set up for horses, so trying to re do it for goats. Have a 6 stall barn, tongue and groove stalls with the barred fronts. 12 x 12's. Kind of large for kidding pens but it's what I have! Also haves 3 sided barns with large paddocks that were for horses also, those have been renoved for goats. But trying to figure a design to make it work better, and really need a way to creep feed. Looks like you made yours, which is what my SIL is good at, but what did you use.

2x4 and rebarb for the rods with PVC pipe over the rods to keep them from being to rough on the bigger kids, holes are drilled every 2 inches from the center of them. Eye hooks on the ends to attach to the boards,but all our boards have special brackets on them made at a machine shop, so we can hook them all together to make pens. you pull out a couple rods here and there to make a small space for just the kids to go in.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.167298783341980.42576.100001855770147&type=3&l=0e7e793f5e Here are some more photos.

I would also suggest coming up with a way to make a smaller kidding pen, at least for the first day or two, incase you have a doe that has a hard time bonding.

 

[20kidsonhill]

You need about a 3 1/2 to 4 inch gap, any bigger than that, some of the younger does can get in. My creep feed gate, really could be a little shorter where the bar opening is. They don't need quite that much height. the height also affects how big a goat can get into the slots.

this buckling is right at 10 weeks old, and needing to be weaned, He weighs near 50lbs. And clearly getting a little too big for the slots.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

Thanks so much! I went to the FB page and LOVE your different feeders etc. We actually have one side of the barn that only has one horse stall and it is just made of panels. My son in law ALSO brought home stacks and stacks of plywood left over from a job he was working on. We could SO make that whole side into pens like yours! I also really like the eye bolt idea so as to be able to change or move things around. Thanks again!

 

[snapnzap]

Never apologize for too many pictures! No such thing!

 

[neener92]

Indie's buck sure does look nice!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Weaned 11 does today with 22 kids, We also weighed all the kids, 37 of them and gave each of them a Bo-se shot.


I will figure out daily gains tomorrow. We had Subway with the kids and enjoyed visiting with them this evening, after a hard day of chores.