My Kinder Herd *Pics*

[dkluzier]

Are they good milkers?

bob

My unregistered kinder Queen of the herd, Babylon is our best milker. We have people who have had goat milk before say that it's the best they have ever tasted. It's richer and sweeter than our saanen/nubian mix.

I am in South Central, PA 15 minutes from I-76 for the person in SE Ohio and about 5 hours away from Shade according to Mapquest. Kinderkorner is near the IL, MO border 7 hours West of you.

 

[KinderKorner]

Das it was me who emailed you.

I was sending you a message saying that I would be making a trip up there to the Ohio Nationals and would be more than willing to bring a few bottle baby goats up for you if your interested. I have 4 registered does due days before.

If you want to wait until a later time, sounds like DKluzier is closer to drive.

http://www.ohionational.org/

Here is the site to the Ohio Nationals.

You can email me at lisalarose77@yahoo.com

If you want pictures or more information.

Dkluzier how are the goats doing? Has Prissy grown yet? I was amazed when you said she was tiny. Ellie her sister is our biggest doeling. She is huge and crunky. Oh course she is nearly 6 months old and still nursing. lol. You have to realize all your other reg kinders you have were all single babies which grow faster. Prissy might of also been set back from stress of the trip or from being away from her sister and mother. I really don't know. Maybe she got her mom small genes and Ellie got her dads. But when they were here they were both the same size. Is she short and or skinny? 1st generations are usually on the big side. Then as the generations go on they get smaller and smaller. All of lower generations are bigger than our high ones.

We think sammie might of gotten stunted from being fed only replacer, as she also got sick several times from it. Like Cocci, and entertoxemia. Both her mother and father are good sized so we can't see it being genetic. But it could be. Sammie is normal height, but she is a little thiner and more dairy. While her twin sister is stout and a couple inches shorter. Feeding a big baby for so long in the summer is part of the reason of her weight as well. But she has a lovely tight udder. We aren't breeding her again yet because we want to fatten her up before putting more stress on her body.

I hope Prissy catches up for you soon. I just adore Ellie. I don't know where her color came from but she is just so cute. Prissy and her looked alike as kids. But it seems their color and size is quite different. I think no matter what I learn I will never quite understand goat genetics. lol

We have an established herd now, so this year we are really going to be working on cutting back to the best. We bought or retained 5 new doelings. After they grow and kid. We will pick the few does who produce the best, and milk the best. We also have 4 bucks right now. We bred them all and will decide by their kids which stay and which go. Wilbur is already reserved after we breed him one more time. He has gotten pushy, and he is more lean on weight. We really like the more meaty look.

If everything goes as planned we are also getting a pygmy to breed to our spotted nubian doe. And we are flying in a spotted pair of kinders from WA this spring to add to the herd.

It's going to be hard to cut back. I really love all of them. But to lessen the work load and to improve breeding it is something that has to be done.

 

[dkluzier]

The only doe that we have due soon is a saanen/nubian mix who we believe bred to our unregistered kinder buck, Dragan and the kid is already reserved should it be a single doe.

Kinderkorner - Prissy is still our smallest doe, DH calls her his little Elf. She is also our friendliest and I luv her to pieces, wouldn't trade her on a bigger girl for a million dollars. She and our d'Artagnan will make beautiful little kids. Our pygmy buck, Mr. Attitude who sired d'Art is also on the small side, plus he is dark grey agouti and threw a belly band into our herd with our first generation Penelope. Good chance of spots in our kinders. Now if I can just get him to breed our spotted nubian doe, Dot this year!

 

[KinderKorner]

I'm glad you like her.

We really do have crazy friendly goats here. They are spoiled rotton. Especially with all the new doelings, and bottled kids. We walk into the gate and get trampled by little girls. lol.

We have only one shy one on the place. Celeste. One of our three newest. She is slowing warming up to us. We got her from the largest US herd, and she was untouched. So she was really cautious at first. I have been catching her and petting her down often, and she is coming around. She is our only spotted kinder!


Good luck on the spots. Can't wait to fly me in a buckling so I can make some colorful babies.