rachels.haven's Journal

[Baymule]

Hey, did that ACV and honey help you?

 

[rachels.haven]

Hey, did that ACV and honey help you?

No, I didn't have any left of the real ACV with the mother in it. I wasn't sure it would do anything otherwise.
I did discover the movers moved my fish sauce while It didn't break. I guess they didn't consider it a liquid that they said they wouldn't move.
I'll be getting new, real ACV next trip to the grocery store.

 

[Ridgetop]

Beautiful doe kid. Who are her parents?

 

[rachels.haven]

Rustic Wood's Black Tie Affair x Little Orchard CD Hera.
I think she's staying even though I can't find a picture of the sire's dam's fore udder. Daddy gave her a deeper, wider chest so she's not too tubey, mommy gave her length and levelness (when she's not sucking a bottle). Mommy also has a perfect udder. I'm looking forward to future Hera kids.

 

[rachels.haven]

Why on earth would goats actively seek out fescue grass over clover and other normally highly palatable weeds? I'm confused

 

[Mini Horses]

Goats LIKE tough, strange and "we don't want you to eat this"!! A whole pasture of great stuff and they deleaf a crappy tree -- or my darned apple tree, elderberries, etc!

I know you just forgot.....they just gave you a reminder.

 

[farmerjan]

Early growth is more palatable. One other thing, this may be more to their liking due to the grass and hay they were eating in Mass. also. There is no accounting for their preferences... but once they all kid, I see no reason for them to have much problem with it. They won't abort if they have kidded... and maybe it is not as much fescue as you think... Clover is an iffy thing... and they can bloat on it so maybe they instinctively are eating what they feel comfortable with. Again, I am no goat expert...
Right now our cows are eating every green sprig they can find... and with the constant swing in temps, anything that is growing is fair game....

 

[Baymule]

I planted non endophyte fescue in Lindale. It was a short season because it died in the heat, but the sheep loved it. It made a good graze and gave me an early spring pasture for them.

 

[rachels.haven]

We're down to 2 pregnant momma's left to kid.
Lucky the dwarf goat surprise freshened with a single doe on Saturday right on time...surprise because she didn't bag up. I thought I'd gotten the name of the goat wrong in my calendar, but the kid is here. I didn't get to see the birth because I wasn't watching for it. Mom had just as saggy of an udder after kidding as she did the morning before. And then I milked her...2/3 cup of milk. I figured kid got some, but baby appears to be still developing a suckle reflex and the next morning after emptying mom again she still only had 2/3 cup of milk. She's a newer goat to me, bought before we left and not a FF and a bit of a brat on the stand and hates milking...this doesn't look great for her long term tenure in our milking herd. But now we have a daughter from an outstanding buck from her to retain, I guess and plenty of milk and colostrum in the freezer. Poo.

I got a new buck and he was delivered on Saturday too. His name is Bella Notte Winston Quinn. I'll be breeding my Oberon daughters to him.

 

[rachels.haven]

Mini saanen, Iris and Iris kids. The black one is a buck.