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rachels.haven
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LGD puppy only answers to Mr. Wiggles (not going into who's fault that is)...sooooo....Mr. Wiggles it is? Currently his rear half looks like it was cut off another larger dog, his feet are bigger than my hands, and if I "carry" him I lift up his front half while his back legs tippie toe along on the ground while I drag him. Currently he's mad at me because I dragged him into a pen to feed him his breakfast. He is a very submissive, speedy, causes no problems, just wants to stick to his goats kind of dog. He's hard to feed because Bailey wants to eat all his food and while he'll put on a show for it, she will WIN. So I get to chase him all over creation and carry him to a pen where he will eat then I can let him out. Sure would love it if he took himself because he's much heavier than a bag of feed.
A day or two after his brother left I decided to just let him out and he's doing fine.
After selling Mr. Buggy the lamancha I brought home another one to breed to Atlas's daughters. We are still trying to bring in a buckling or two from Lucky*Stars farm and bloodlines this spring, but I couldn't pass this one up. He's smaller than Atlas, but he has a very, very nice pedigree for a lamancha. His name is Manzinita VD Piper. His sire is Kastdemur and his dam has a pedigree loaded with great herdnames and beautiful udders so I think he'll be a good buck to use this year so I can let the bucklings we hopefully bring in grow up properly without distractions that come with breeding. (already had one buckling fall through from one breeder because he came out with a defect and needed to be wethered for it, so I guess I'd better cross my fingers, but now we'll be okay either way)
Atlas is on the left and has the belt, Piper on the right, duking it out. Chami colored kids it is, I guess. Piper is still rutting and is missing a gut so I guess I need to hit up the feed store and get him some of that 14% protein, 6% fat horse feed and start getting him fattened up.
A day or two after his brother left I decided to just let him out and he's doing fine.
After selling Mr. Buggy the lamancha I brought home another one to breed to Atlas's daughters. We are still trying to bring in a buckling or two from Lucky*Stars farm and bloodlines this spring, but I couldn't pass this one up. He's smaller than Atlas, but he has a very, very nice pedigree for a lamancha. His name is Manzinita VD Piper. His sire is Kastdemur and his dam has a pedigree loaded with great herdnames and beautiful udders so I think he'll be a good buck to use this year so I can let the bucklings we hopefully bring in grow up properly without distractions that come with breeding. (already had one buckling fall through from one breeder because he came out with a defect and needed to be wethered for it, so I guess I'd better cross my fingers, but now we'll be okay either way)
Atlas is on the left and has the belt, Piper on the right, duking it out. Chami colored kids it is, I guess. Piper is still rutting and is missing a gut so I guess I need to hit up the feed store and get him some of that 14% protein, 6% fat horse feed and start getting him fattened up.
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rachels.haven
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Soo....I brought home some ugly goats today. One pregnant american guinea goat doe and a baby kunekune buck. They're goats, HONEST. Just get your eyes checked. American Kune hog-goats.
The little one fit through the electric large stock net so we (my angel father and Aiden) had to do some speedy pig wrangling and replaced one net with chicken net (knew it would be good for something) and now it's spicy hot. I'm ironically enough keeping them next to the smokehouse. It has a pig sculpture on the door.
NO MILK DOWN THE DRAIN THIS YEAR (please?).
The little one fit through the electric large stock net so we (my angel father and Aiden) had to do some speedy pig wrangling and replaced one net with chicken net (knew it would be good for something) and now it's spicy hot. I'm ironically enough keeping them next to the smokehouse. It has a pig sculpture on the door.
NO MILK DOWN THE DRAIN THIS YEAR (please?).
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BOY oh BOY.... have you gone "hog wild" since you moved to the southern tier....
Talk about becoming a real southerner (again)......
Talk about becoming a real southerner (again)......
Bruce
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Oh yes, they certainly look like goats!
(humor her, I think she's lost it and may be dangerous if crossed)
(humor her, I think she's lost it and may be dangerous if crossed)
Mini Horses
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I had some of those "goats" once. 
. Very tasty.
. Very tasty.
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Ummmm....goat wrangling! Good luck with your new, very unique goats!
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rachels.haven
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They're not very big pigs. I'm concerned I'm going to have to save over a sow or two from the big pigs impending litter to avoid killing them with too much unsold milk. It just occured to me this morning that it's possible to do that via scouring. Big, Iowa style, "danger, beware of the pig" signs on pen, commercial style hogs from my childhood are just too much monster for me to want to have them around though. I'm sticking to under 200 lbs average.
People around here really like Julianas, kunes, and agh crosses and straight and they're not for pets. I think it may be for home butchery purposes, but I discovered I had options this weekend.
People around here really like Julianas, kunes, and agh crosses and straight and they're not for pets. I think it may be for home butchery purposes, but I discovered I had options this weekend.
Mini Horses
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The AGHs I had were nice pigs...personality and meat. I am trying to not get more but, it's just on that back burner calling my name! Some available just 8 miles away. 
. Summer, garden, goats kidding, grass to cut...all add to feeding them out. Mine loved fresh grass cuttings. I cut with bagger and dumped to them. The size was nice. See where I'm heading? Meat was delish.
. Summer, garden, goats kidding, grass to cut...all add to feeding them out. Mine loved fresh grass cuttings. I cut with bagger and dumped to them. The size was nice. See where I'm heading? Meat was delish.
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Miss @rachels.haven, you really had me going for a moment calling them "ugly goats"!
