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rachels.haven
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I'm beginning to feed hay as of today-orchard grass only in case the grass pasture starts looking less appealing than grass hay. It's very dry again. So dry, in fact, that neighbor two miles down the road caught their round baler on fire and now their field is alight and the wind is whipping and the fire spreading. We'll probably be fine, but it's THAT level of dry again. People also burning down the tobacco smoking barns. We got rain at some point in the last week, but it was like...a "decorative" amount. Like fancy dew. The leaves are turning brown and just dropping off the trees before they can turn yellow. The trees say they are done with waiting to regroup their resources and hoping for rain.
It's suddenly cool now. Sept 22nd the temps went down to 70's during the day, 40-50's at night from 90's during the day and 80-70's at night.
Except for one doe that was bred recently, all does large enough are bred. I opted not to try to milk through. I'll be breeding dwarf FF's and the 33% standard mini saanen, and just maybe the standard saanen girls in November, Decemberish, probably not October. Wow, we're just about out of year already.
I'm bringing in a new Nigerian dwarf doe investment out of the line Erudite is from. She should actually milk too and she will get crossed into my "actually milk" dwarves. (I also brought in two bucks from that other line earlier) Nobody here will like them because they are on the larger side of the dwarf standard as far as kid sales go, but I'd rather have no dwarves than does you have to udder up for days if you wanted to show (forget being productive dairy animals). Those are not dairy goats. I need something to make minis from too, I tell myself.
Erudite has been short cycling every 5-7 days and not settling so I called my vet and we are going to do a hard reset on her with a cidr, estrumate, and pg600. Eri is 8, going on 9, but I'd like one more litter if possible, then to keep her in milk as long as I can. I'd love to be on milk test too to record it, but the verification test supervisor issue is still there.
Our first order of chicks come next week.
I hope Barb is doing okay with the hurricane. I hear it's quite a storm.
It's suddenly cool now. Sept 22nd the temps went down to 70's during the day, 40-50's at night from 90's during the day and 80-70's at night.
Except for one doe that was bred recently, all does large enough are bred. I opted not to try to milk through. I'll be breeding dwarf FF's and the 33% standard mini saanen, and just maybe the standard saanen girls in November, Decemberish, probably not October. Wow, we're just about out of year already.
I'm bringing in a new Nigerian dwarf doe investment out of the line Erudite is from. She should actually milk too and she will get crossed into my "actually milk" dwarves. (I also brought in two bucks from that other line earlier) Nobody here will like them because they are on the larger side of the dwarf standard as far as kid sales go, but I'd rather have no dwarves than does you have to udder up for days if you wanted to show (forget being productive dairy animals). Those are not dairy goats. I need something to make minis from too, I tell myself.
Erudite has been short cycling every 5-7 days and not settling so I called my vet and we are going to do a hard reset on her with a cidr, estrumate, and pg600. Eri is 8, going on 9, but I'd like one more litter if possible, then to keep her in milk as long as I can. I'd love to be on milk test too to record it, but the verification test supervisor issue is still there.
Our first order of chicks come next week.
I hope Barb is doing okay with the hurricane. I hear it's quite a storm.
