norseofcourse
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You sure you didn't leave a zero off that number? $15 wow!
Curious, why don't they keep FF kids?
purplequeenvt Lambing 2016
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Curious, why don't they keep FF kids?
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purplequeenvt
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The does aren't proven yet. They may have an idea of what their production will be based off their dam's record, but they have to make a name from themselves so to speak.
This dairy has 400 goats in milk and about 800 goats on the farm. They are CL and Johnes free and, although they don't test annually for CAE (can you imagine the cost?!?), the original herd was CAE clean and they pull all kids. Super bio-secure farm.
Man... that was an absolute steal. Gotta hate it when you buy an animal expecting boy bits only to discover there are none... It might be worth the gas cost for me to go buy a bunch of FF kids to start my herd.
BlessedWithGoats
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Congratulations on the new lambs and kids!!
Ridgetop
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Been out of town and just found this posting on my e-mails.
Congratulations on saving the lamb with its head backwards. I hate to lose ones I could have saved if I had been there. Nothing worse than showing up after the fact to find a dead or damaged kid or lamb, let alone a dead ewe. SOOO glad you happened to get there in time to pull it. Also congrats on the other lamb - sometimes I think they mark and remark to confuse us. LOL All but one of our ewes finally lambed. Only 1 set of twins which really surprised me since 2 ewes were enormous. The last ewe to lamb is a young first timer so may not lamb for another couple weeks. We changed out rams last year after 3 breeding seasons. The old ram produced 95% ram lambs so of course you know that this year we have 100% ewe lambs! We can't keep them all since we don't have pasture for a flock of 14 or more sheep (southern California drought area and limited pasture). We will be culling heavily as to who goes into the freezer and whether we keep any replacement ewes. As a former dairy person, it really seems wasteful to eat ewes but as my son says, they all taste the same! Anyone wanting to bet on what the last ewe produces? LOL
Congratulations on saving the lamb with its head backwards. I hate to lose ones I could have saved if I had been there. Nothing worse than showing up after the fact to find a dead or damaged kid or lamb, let alone a dead ewe. SOOO glad you happened to get there in time to pull it. Also congrats on the other lamb - sometimes I think they mark and remark to confuse us. LOL All but one of our ewes finally lambed. Only 1 set of twins which really surprised me since 2 ewes were enormous. The last ewe to lamb is a young first timer so may not lamb for another couple weeks. We changed out rams last year after 3 breeding seasons. The old ram produced 95% ram lambs so of course you know that this year we have 100% ewe lambs! We can't keep them all since we don't have pasture for a flock of 14 or more sheep (southern California drought area and limited pasture). We will be culling heavily as to who goes into the freezer and whether we keep any replacement ewes. As a former dairy person, it really seems wasteful to eat ewes but as my son says, they all taste the same! Anyone wanting to bet on what the last ewe produces? LOL
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purplequeenvt
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Esme, first time mom AND 2nd generation bottle baby, finally had her lambs today! I got home from work and found them up and nursing. Esme is being a super mom.
A ram and a ewe. "Elwyn" and "Edwina"
A ram and a ewe. "Elwyn" and "Edwina"
norseofcourse
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Congrats! They look so big!
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purplequeenvt
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It was beginning to look like we were going to have a 2 lambs per weekend thing going on, but we finally had a breakthrough yesterday.
Flute, a Shetland, had twins at 1 pm. A gray katmoget ram and a black gulmoget ewe. They weighed 5.6 and 4.6 lbs.
We left for church at 3:30, got home around 6 and Anita lambed at 6:30! So happy she's done! She's the prolapsing ewe and I was so worried she was going to lamb while no one was around to help her. Her ram was 11.7 and her ewe was 11.6 lbs!! I left the stitch in for now, but I'll take it out in the next couple days. She didn't show any signs of prolapsing during labor so I think she'll be fine.
Flute's boy
Her girl
Anita's babies
Flute, a Shetland, had twins at 1 pm. A gray katmoget ram and a black gulmoget ewe. They weighed 5.6 and 4.6 lbs.
We left for church at 3:30, got home around 6 and Anita lambed at 6:30! So happy she's done! She's the prolapsing ewe and I was so worried she was going to lamb while no one was around to help her. Her ram was 11.7 and her ewe was 11.6 lbs!! I left the stitch in for now, but I'll take it out in the next couple days. She didn't show any signs of prolapsing during labor so I think she'll be fine.
Flute's boy
Her girl
Anita's babies
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purplequeenvt
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I think the lamb storm is arriving!
Fae lambed this afternoon (kindly waited for me to get home from work) with 2 moorit katmoget rams. Probably a good thing they were both boys otherwise I'd be seriously tempted to keep one.
Since today is Pi day, I am thinking they should get pie names. Still to be decided.
#1 weighed a whopping 7 lbs and has a more open, wavy fleece.
#2 was only 4.6 lbs and has a tighter, finer fleece (this is the one I wish were a girl)
Side by side you can see the difference in size and fleece type.
There is a BL in labor right now.
Fae lambed this afternoon (kindly waited for me to get home from work) with 2 moorit katmoget rams. Probably a good thing they were both boys otherwise I'd be seriously tempted to keep one.
Since today is Pi day, I am thinking they should get pie names. Still to be decided.
#1 weighed a whopping 7 lbs and has a more open, wavy fleece.
#2 was only 4.6 lbs and has a tighter, finer fleece (this is the one I wish were a girl)
Side by side you can see the difference in size and fleece type.
There is a BL in labor right now.
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