rachels.haven's Journal

[Ridgetop]

my finger coated with it and then putting it in his mouth. He didn’t want to try the bottle at all. A few minutes after the Karo coated finger he did want the bottle. It gave him just enough boost to have the energy to suck on the bottle.

I coat the nipple pf the bottle too - anything to let the dopes know that it will taste good. I wonder if mama sheep and goats tell their kids "No matter how nice she seems don't let that lady stick anything in your mouth. You don't know where it's been!"

Don't try to bottle feed yet unless you want to preserve her udder. Put him back and watch to see what happens. She may just have been an overenthusiastic mama. Or he could have been stepped on by mistake. See how she is with him this morning before making the decision to bottle feed.

 

[SageHill]

I coat the nipple pf the bottle too - anything to let the dopes know that it will taste good. I wonder if mama sheep and goats tell their kids "No matter how nice she seems don't let that lady stick anything in your mouth. You don't know where it's been!"

ROTFLMAO

 

[rachels.haven]

Lily does not remember her kid anymore (he's doing great now). He remembers her and did a little dance and was so happy to see her. And she ran away. Poor guy. My other does will take their kids or ANY kid for about a month after kidding. I'm not smitten with Lily's udder so far so she may be sold later. Pictures later.

My last two pregnant does enter induction junction tomorrow morning for Friday or Saturday kidding. They are my 75% saanen mini (130lbs not obese) and my 68% saanen mini (120lbs and embarrassingly obese because she maintains and gains condition like crazy while milking like a standard with ND butterfat) and are bred standard lamancha and I'd say long story, but bucks and does in heat don't take long to quickly seal the deal, so that would be a lie. I did not lute them because they are both multiparous and and wider and bigger than most FF standard does. The kids will be kind of worthless, but the dams will be in milk.
Earlier I also spoke with a friend that regularly breeds her minis to standard and she thinks they should have no trouble. Gee, I hope so. I guess I would not be worried if their pedigrees said "lamancha". And they're significantly bigger than 90 pound Lily with the bonus of having a little dash of ND genes to hopefully shrink the kids.

Then we are done and ready to settle into milking and finish kid rearing.

My three dry yearling minis are about 75 pounds. I'm really glad they were not in heat that day. Especially glad since the minis seem to short cycle until they sync up and all cycle together for maximum humping and carrying on and a good old time. If they'd been in sync with the older minis that cycle and been bred I'd have luted them all.

 

[Ridgetop]

Lili remembers her introduction to motherhood and has decided that it is not for her.

 

[farmerjan]

Lili remembers her introduction to motherhood and has decided that it is not for her.

What she doesn't realize that she has limited options... like I tell my cows, it is do the job that they were born for, or they get a chance to have a permanent job at McDonalds...

 

[Baymule]

What she doesn't realize that she has limited options... like I tell my cows, it is do the job that they were born for, or they get a chance to have a permanent job at McDonalds...

Hahaha! That’s funny!

 

[rachels.haven]

@farmerjan , Love it!

 

[Ridgetop]

What she doesn't realize that she has limited options... like I tell my cows, it is do the job that they were born for, or they get a chance to have a permanent job at McDonalds...

Lili has been listening to too much liberal dogma. She feels she is a liberated goat and should not be subjected to anti-capristic dogma that seeks to keep her in a downtrodden lifestyle tied to a milk machine!

 

[rachels.haven]

And then she wants ME to milk her 24/7 any time she lays eyes on me.

She's pretty, but I'm not cute little baby goat.

Not sure what to make of her teats though. I think there's some edema to get over and then we can wait to see how she stretches. Permanent outie teats don't stay unfortunately. She's crouching here trying to hide her udder because it's very muddy here and I had to de-mud her before pics.

Her sire and dam have been moved along long ago btw.

 

[Ridgetop]

I like her capacity except would like to see a stronger medial.