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Loving the herd life
your boers have really long backs!20kidsonhill said:
LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM
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SDBoerGoats
Loving the herd life
Beautiful goats! I love the piggy back pics, using each other's backs to get to the leaves. The doeling in the last pic is gorgeous. She looks alot like my Cocoa, she is the doeling out of Spicey and Sundance, our biggest and most elegant looking doeling this year.
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20kidsonhill
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here are a few pictures I took today.
Aunt B is still looking pregnant and still due to kid any day now.
This is one of the newer kids born, he is 88% boer/ 12%nubian and doeing quite well.
The next pictures are of my son's show wethers for this year. two are for our county fair and one is for the state fair
this is his state fair pick. He is 88% boer/ 12 % nubian and out of our doe Nova and buck Twister
this is Dancer's full-blood buckling, but we wethered him for our county fair. He is doing well, but doesn't have the smoothest front legs, He for sure has the longest ears I have ever seen on our farm.
and this is a wether out of Annie and Prooved It. And probably my favorite. Some days I like him a lot, some days I am not so sure. Not the best picture of him. He is the one with his mouth full of leaves. He is certainly the smoothest shouldered of the 3 wethers.
Aunt B is still looking pregnant and still due to kid any day now.
This is one of the newer kids born, he is 88% boer/ 12%nubian and doeing quite well.
The next pictures are of my son's show wethers for this year. two are for our county fair and one is for the state fair
this is his state fair pick. He is 88% boer/ 12 % nubian and out of our doe Nova and buck Twister
this is Dancer's full-blood buckling, but we wethered him for our county fair. He is doing well, but doesn't have the smoothest front legs, He for sure has the longest ears I have ever seen on our farm.
and this is a wether out of Annie and Prooved It. And probably my favorite. Some days I like him a lot, some days I am not so sure. Not the best picture of him. He is the one with his mouth full of leaves. He is certainly the smoothest shouldered of the 3 wethers.
SDBoerGoats
Loving the herd life
I love the wether in the last pic, by Prooved It, he sure is a tank! You can show your fair wethers with horns? We have to take ours off, which I think makes no sense, since they will be slaughtered anyway. And no scurs allowed!
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20kidsonhill
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In the EAst most shows allow horns, We don't ever dehorn any wethers that we sell. The further west you go the more shows make you dehorn, I think in a few years you will be seeing most meat goat shows start allowing horns.SDBoerGoats said:
I am looking forward to lots of kids out of Prooved It next year. We only had 4 does bred to him this year. All his kids are really nice.
RPC
Overrun with beasties
Wow the kids are looking good....We are aloud to have horns on our meat goats but not dairy goats.
SDBoerGoats
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Wow, I hope so 20K, makes no sense to me at all to have to take the horns off market wethers. In the breed classes, like the Breeders Herd of 3, or Does of 2010 etc, Boer goats do not have to have the horns off because it is considered a breed standard, they just have to tip them, or put a garden hose on them.
Mossy Stone Farm
Overrun with beasties
I love these pictures, Thank you so much for taking the time to take them and then post them all.. I dont have Boers and i just love looking at them....
Thank you again,
Cyndi
Thank you again,
Cyndi
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20kidsonhill
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Glad you are enjoying the pictures. 
The goats have been a lot of work this year, we are starting to get a little tired of it, and even though I have sold a quite a few I feel like there are a lot still here. I sold 3 more this week that will be going to 4H shows, They haven't taken them home yet and I have 3 others already sold that haven't been picked up yet. That leaves 8 kids that are still for sale, with 3 of those headed to the stockyards in a week or two that we have decided just aren't doing well enough to bother with any longer. One has really knobby legs, another one growing way too slow and a 3rd just not filling out real well as far as muscling goes.
And we also have my son's 3 wethers for the fair, and my 4 does that I Have chosen to keep. That makes a total of 21 that we are still creep feeding. Honestly, it feels like more than that.
I just put an ad up on craigslist for two of the does that I have for sale. This is not a sales pitch to any of you. I consider this thread for educational purposes and not for advertisement. Just thought those of you that have been following along would like to see one of my approaches to advertisement. Most the time I link the ad to our website, but this time I choose to just package these two girls together and sell them as is. I don't consider either one of these does the better of what we had, so they are priced at just above meat prices, in hopes that they will sell and I don't have to keep feeding them.
http://harrisonburg.craigslist.org/grd/3040362182.html
And here is a little fullblood doeling I had just put up for sale, but I sold her yesterday to a beginner 4h'er, we weighed her last night and she weighs 42 lbs, and they have 70 days until the fair, we figured if she holds at a .3 daily gain she will put on 21 lbs and make their minimum weight of 60 lbs, although the dad said they that they really don't have a minimum weight, they didn't turn any of the kids away last year. I think she will possibly reach 70 lbs and do a little better on weight gain. She is split(fish) teated on both sides and with her slow growth rate I decided to let her go at a bargain price. But I have to say she is not lacking in muscling nor structure.
http://harrisonburg.craigslist.org/grd/3039774372.html
The goats have been a lot of work this year, we are starting to get a little tired of it, and even though I have sold a quite a few I feel like there are a lot still here. I sold 3 more this week that will be going to 4H shows, They haven't taken them home yet and I have 3 others already sold that haven't been picked up yet. That leaves 8 kids that are still for sale, with 3 of those headed to the stockyards in a week or two that we have decided just aren't doing well enough to bother with any longer. One has really knobby legs, another one growing way too slow and a 3rd just not filling out real well as far as muscling goes. And we also have my son's 3 wethers for the fair, and my 4 does that I Have chosen to keep. That makes a total of 21 that we are still creep feeding. Honestly, it feels like more than that.
I just put an ad up on craigslist for two of the does that I have for sale. This is not a sales pitch to any of you. I consider this thread for educational purposes and not for advertisement. Just thought those of you that have been following along would like to see one of my approaches to advertisement. Most the time I link the ad to our website, but this time I choose to just package these two girls together and sell them as is. I don't consider either one of these does the better of what we had, so they are priced at just above meat prices, in hopes that they will sell and I don't have to keep feeding them.
http://harrisonburg.craigslist.org/grd/3040362182.html
And here is a little fullblood doeling I had just put up for sale, but I sold her yesterday to a beginner 4h'er, we weighed her last night and she weighs 42 lbs, and they have 70 days until the fair, we figured if she holds at a .3 daily gain she will put on 21 lbs and make their minimum weight of 60 lbs, although the dad said they that they really don't have a minimum weight, they didn't turn any of the kids away last year. I think she will possibly reach 70 lbs and do a little better on weight gain. She is split(fish) teated on both sides and with her slow growth rate I decided to let her go at a bargain price. But I have to say she is not lacking in muscling nor structure.
http://harrisonburg.craigslist.org/grd/3039774372.html
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Great pics! Poor Aunt B!
