One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

Got the semen tank filled with nitrogen today

Collecting Rocky and Big Brown on Sat

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Woo hoo!

 

[Southern by choice]

I got a buck you could collect from.... so he can leave here!
Great practice for you all too!
My first mean buck and this will be his last home... and he ain't stayin' if you know what I mean.

He bred Millie today so he needs to go!

Congrats on the tank!

 

[OneFineAcre]

I got a buck you could collect from.... so he can leave here!
Great practice for you all too!
My first mean buck and this will be his last home... and he ain't stayin' if you know what I mean.

He bred Millie today so he needs to go!

Congrats on the tank!

If you think he may be worth collecting bring him Sat
We can work something out if you want me to store him for you

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hey OFA, I know this is a semen tank thread....but if you've got a minute, can I ask you for your thoughts on this doe?

I'm a pygmy lover through and through, but I'm thinking about adding some Nigies to the mix. I don't care much about 'show' quality, but still want a strong healthy animal. I'm mainly looking for decent udders and healthy goats. She's a FF that kidded with two bucklings.

Here's the link: http://houston.craigslist.org/grd/5320823970.html

 

[Southern by choice]

I am curious too. I know what I don't like and what I like... see if OFA and I pick up on the same thing.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Hey OFA, I know this is a semen tank thread....but if you've got a minute, can I ask you for your thoughts on this doe?

I'm a pygmy lover through and through, but I'm thinking about adding some Nigies to the mix. I don't care much about 'show' quality, but still want a strong healthy animal. I'm mainly looking for decent udders and healthy goats. She's a FF that kidded with two bucklings.

Here's the link: http://houston.craigslist.org/grd/5320823970.html

I like the way the doe looks in the picture you attached. Nice and level on the back, good rump angle for a Nigerian.
Good fore udder extension, but you can see her teats appear to kick forward though. She appears to be standing correctly on her back feet, but it looks like she may be sitting back on her pasterns on her front feet, kind of hard to tell? Could just be the picture. But, I have seen does do that before and after kidding because all of their ligaments loosen, and they tighten back up and they stand more correctly again.

But, then in the picture in the craigslist add, something odd looking about the udder in the last picture from the side. Seems to hang too low down. And then what the add says about " She has a very large utter for a FF doe so her ligaments have really taken a strain on the attachment "

Sounds like she is saying that it isn't well attached and is swinging like pendulum.

I know there are two does, so I'm not sure which one is that last udder picture.

I know you are not concerned about show quality, but a pendulus udder can be dragging the ground by the time she is and aged doe.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I liked the rump level too, and I noticed the front pasterns. So, it's good to know I'm seeing the same things you did.

The udder in the pic I posted does belong to that doe.

She sent me a pic of the rear udder and you totally called it! Rear attachment is a problem.

After exchanging emails with the owner this is what she had to say about this doe:

"Yes they are registered. I am selling them without papers . I breed for show and udders and they don't have what I'm looking for as far as rear attachment and I don't want kids being sold off of the does with my herd name on the papers."

 

[Southern by choice]

Thanks OFA
That is what it looked like to me too OFA. And that was just from the first pics... I went oooo udder isn't attached well. Looking at the last pic...


Was wondering about the fore-udder too... something tells me there is a big pocket in there.

 

[OneFineAcre]

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I liked the rump level too, and I noticed the front pasterns. So, it's good to know I'm seeing the same things you did.

The udder in the pic I posted does belong to that doe.

She sent me a pic of the rear udder and you totally called it! Rear attachment is a problem.

After exchanging emails with the owner this is what she had to say about this doe:

"Yes they are registered. I am selling them without papers . I breed for show and udders and they don't have what I'm looking for as far as rear attachment and I don't want kids being sold off of the does with my herd name on the papers."

I sure did call it didn't I ?
She is being very upfront.
They are culls