LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[neener92]

"Just Wow" is exactly that! I'm so happy I have her brother! I am so happy with both the kids I got from you!

 

[SDBoerGoats]

I would be....I am really looking forward to seeing what Sundance produces. He bred one doe last summer, Spicey, and she had 3 gorgeous triplets, but only one doeling. But the other two made our best market wethers. Cocoa, the doeling, is a good size doeling, over 60 pounds, and she has her daddy's gorgeous head and eyes. I'll try to get a pic of her. Sundance only bred one other doe, Sugar, who was Spicey's daughter, and if you recall, she just fell over and died a couple of months ago. Those babies i was so looking forward to!

But he gets to breed quite a few this season, all the daughters of Remington, and I think we are going to breed Spicey to Remington this time, to see what she does.

It is hard to decide which buck to breed with which doe. We will be using 3 bucks this fall, And will have 18 or so does to breed, plus an additional 4 yearlings a little later in the season. I guess I will just divide them up equally and see how it goes. Although I already know that this year I will be putting my biggest older does with Goldman, since he is a pretty aggressive breeder. The problem will be when my yearlings need to be bred he may be more buck than they can handle and out of the 4 there is one for sure I would like to breed to him. We have talked about lutalysing the younger/smaller does and only putting them with him when they are for sure in heat. Although I do think he seems a little calmer this year than last year. Too many decisions.


Love to see pictures of Sundance's doeling.

I have the same thoughts, Sundance is a gentle quiet buck, so I want to put him with the younger doelings, and then of course they will get bred a little later. Remington will get to breed all the original does, except for a few I want to try with Sundance this time. Just have to make sure I keep track for the registered ones! See, Cocoa, Sundance's daughter, will have to be bred to Remington. . She was born in December, and has pretty good size, but he is a big buck. So I'm thinking of holding her back a while. Of course, there is the Boer/Kiko buckling we kept. He is the same age as Cocoa but I hadn't really planned on using him yet. But he's no way near as big as his daddy so there's a thought.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We have an exhausting evening, tonight. We have a pretty large 4H club coming to our farm to use some of our kids to practice judging/evaluating meat goats. And we have a possible buyer coming to look at two doelings for sale, and we have another family coming to pick up their two show wethers.

I figure Aunt B is due today and at around 150 to 152 days, So right around 6:30 pm should be a good time for her to start pushing.

On the bright side I will have less goats to feed after tonight. I have still just been putting out 25 lbs in the creep feed area, twice a day, but with 23 kids steady growing and some of them at 65 to 75 lbs, I really need to be feeding more or getting rid of more kids. Several are sold, they just haven't gone to their new homes yet.

We will be taking my son's show wethers out of the barn and off pasture and penning them and switching them to show feed this weekend. and we have our first weigh-in this weekend, He will be weighing-in 4 goats and a lamb. I will take some pictures. but hopefully the next pictures I post are of Biotis's kids and preferably doelings. She had 2 does and a buck last year, but only one doe survived at birth, the other two were stillborns. she is big enough to be carrying triplets again. I wouldn't complain about triplet doelings.
My son wants her to have a buckling so he can butcher it this fall, it is too late in the year to use her kids for show wethers. I have one kid that I am saving right now for him for butchering, he requested two.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Guess who I just checked on and is laying near the barn by herself, while everyone else is up in the field grazing?

I think we are at the 24 hour count down, but then again she could hold out on me. I don't have a confirmed exact breeding date/time wrote down, I have a note stating that she was in heat with the buck for a couple of days 152 days ago.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

Of course she should have the babies tonight! Right when everyone starts to show up! LOL! That's what Daisy did to us a couple weeks ago, first off we didn't even know she WAS pregnant, then when it became obvious, not much in the way of signs of being close. No bag, no softening of ligs, but the night the does are left out in the big pen, and the morning we have to leave the ranch at 6 in the morning, cause that is D Day for hauling the positive does, THAT"S when she decides to have the baby! So a mad rush to bring her and baby in the barn, and make sure everything is OK, cause we had to leave like a half hour ago. Told the kids, I know you all have the flu, but you gotta step up and make sure this baby nurses, and mama is taking care of him! So proud of them, cause they did a bang up job too.

Hope things all work out, you get some sold, and a new set of doelings, times 3!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Of course she should have the babies tonight! Right when everyone starts to show up! LOL! That's what Daisy did to us a couple weeks ago, first off we didn't even know she WAS pregnant, then when it became obvious, not much in the way of signs of being close. No bag, no softening of ligs, but the night the does are left out in the big pen, and the morning we have to leave the ranch at 6 in the morning, cause that is D Day for hauling the positive does, THAT"S when she decides to have the baby! So a mad rush to bring her and baby in the barn, and make sure everything is OK, cause we had to leave like a half hour ago. Told the kids, I know you all have the flu, but you gotta step up and make sure this baby nurses, and mama is taking care of him! So proud of them, cause they did a bang up job too.

Hope things all work out, you get some sold, and a new set of doelings, times 3!

Got to love goats and farming.

Well, no babies this evening and the farm was very very busy. Saturday morning will be very busy for us, we have weigh-in, plus two baseball games, plus I have to work 3 hours at a thrift store for our church, I should have made arrangements for someone else to work at the church. Surely that is when Aunt B is going to decide to go. Anytime tomorrow will be just fine, I have no plans.
I will try to add a couple pictures of her in the morning,

Did I mention how bad my back is hurting this evening. That is not normal for me.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We have ourselves a pair of twin doelings from Prooved it and Aunt B. I was just getting ready to post pictures of her getting ready to go into labor this morning and nesting.

Here she is right before she kidded. I haven't gotten a chance yet to take pictures of the kids, It took me 20 minutes to get her out of the field and into a pen in the barn before they storms get here today. She was up under the cedar trees and we played ring-around-the-cedar-trees for a while before I was able to get a lead on her during a contractions. Then she walked at a snails pass down to the barn.

And yes, I know she has an ugly udder. I am giving the kids a little time to dry off and get their feet under them and then I am going to get some milk into them, They will need assistance for a couple days getting on those big teats. The one you can see int this picture is more blown out that the other one, so at least I am only working with one really bad side.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

AWESOME NEWS! Twin doelings! HOOOORAY!!!!!!!! Can 't wait to see the baby pics!!!! Congratulations! And yes, she has quite the udder, yep, I'm thinking the babies might need some help there. And sorry about your back, back pain is the worst.

 

[daisychick]

Poor Aunt B needs a heavy duty support bra. Congrats on getting 2 girls!

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Oh my. So this may sound like a dumb question, but when they are blown out like that, are they in any pain? I am not being smart, just asking.