One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

Shea kidded tonight
Triplet does

We are now at 21 does and 11 bucks. Holy Cow !!!

I'm not doing a very good job with pictures.

 

[Southern by choice]

Really happy you are having a doe year! YAY!
Do you have any "favorites" yet?

 

[OneFineAcre]

Really happy you are having a doe year! YAY!
Do you have any "favorites" yet?

I don't know about the kids, but really liking a couple of the moms. Pepper is a FF out of Taffy, and she looks like her mom. I think she's going to be a good one. Opal looks really good. Cookie looks really good with more udder capacity now that she has triplets instead of singles all of the time.
The bad. Zenith isn't going to be another Zamia. I look at her sometimes and she looks pretty good and other times she looks awful. I'm not sure why it changes. Another good is Gwen may be another Clarabelle. But, not this year. Maybe next.

 

[Southern by choice]

We are real behind on breeding a few of the does. Totality and Eclipse (Isaac x Carolina Girl daughters) we wanted to breed back in Jan so they could be appraised. Peanut looks pretty good for just having quads. One of her kids looks identical to her!
We didn't get around to it. Being so busy they still aren't. Hopefully this month. Foxy was bred by Isaac and is due in May.

I really wish we could have dam raised a bunch of Nigerians this year. We just don't have the space.
It will be fun to see you guys at RM. Hopefully I can make it one of the days!

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

OFA, you are really being blessed with does! It will be an interesting task to pick the ones to keep and the ones to sell. Good problem to have!

 

[MiniSilkys]

Speaking of udders, my Isabelle (FF) has twins but her udder seems to be awfully small. They are 5 weeks old and growing well. Maybe it is because they are eating some feed along with their milk. Isabelle's mother Maybelle (4F) may kid tonight and her udder looks at least 4x's the size of Isabelle's. But Maybelle's udder was not impressive until her 3rd freshening. I am also working on changing my profile name. Just trying to decide what it will be. I have pygmies not mini silkys. Might add Nigerians in the future as well.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Speaking of udders, my Isabelle (FF) has twins but her udder seems to be awfully small. They are 5 weeks old and growing well. Maybe it is because they are eating some feed along with their milk. Isabelle's mother Maybelle (4F) may kid tonight and her udder looks at least 4x's the size of Isabelle's. But Maybelle's udder was not impressive until her 3rd freshening. I am also working on changing my profile name. Just trying to decide what it will be. I have pygmies not mini silkys. Might add Nigerians in the future as well.

They are probably just keeping her udder empty all of the time.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Maurine and Rachel are taking some goats to a show up in Virginia this weekend. She's going to take Opal, Cookie, Pepper (FF) and a couple of Jr's (not sure which). She had originally planned to take our 2 does that have 2 legs, Marigold and Shea but Shea just kidded and Marigold is kind of thin.
She's not planning to give them a tight show clip, just trim some long hairs, and clip and shave udders. I saw a post of some friends of ours on FB showing pics of their goats show clipped. I think it's still too cool to clip like that. It got down to 36 degrees a couple of nights ago. I don't know, maybe they have a heated barn or something.
But, I know from experience if yours aren't clipped and others are you will generally be placed lower.
That is unless the clipped goats are all hunched up. I saw some show pictures someone posted from this spring and the goat's in the pic don't look that great to me, they are all roached in the back because they look cold. At least I think that's why they looked like that.
I guess we shall see.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Good luck to them, hope it all goes well!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Good luck to your goats at the show