Baymule
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Beautiful family picture! Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas Rachel and family!
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rachels.haven
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The pre kidding feeding has begun. Kidding date day 150 is the 17th give or take for this 6 doestring. The black doe on the far left, Lily, is not on this string. She's due in two months on March 9th if memory serves.
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rachels.haven
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Lily says, "mine.
And no, she was will not put her dirty foot down or take it out of her food. If this keeps up she may need to start washing her hands before meals.
And no, she was will not put her dirty foot down or take it out of her food. If this keeps up she may need to start washing her hands before meals.
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rachels.haven
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Aramis.
He can be one of the two bucks to service Pete's daughters. He's very shy and dam raised "don't touch me" though. If he calms down to be handleable he may be more than a one or two season wonder.
Sorry about the watermarks. I shared these pics on my FB page and picked the good pics and marked them, and finding the watermarks is the easy way to remember which pics were the good ones.
He can be one of the two bucks to service Pete's daughters. He's very shy and dam raised "don't touch me" though. If he calms down to be handleable he may be more than a one or two season wonder.
Sorry about the watermarks. I shared these pics on my FB page and picked the good pics and marked them, and finding the watermarks is the easy way to remember which pics were the good ones.
Mike CHS
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They are beautiful.
Ridgetop
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Good looking buck.
Mini Horses
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Would I be correct to assume you bottle raise all the dairy babes? Nice milking set up. You're gonna be busy & loaded with milk. Customers will be happy for you to start back up 
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Baymule
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Brilliant idea on feeding them. They are used to the stanchion and know that’s where they get fed. Lily is priceless. Love her selfish stance. She is NOT sharing!
use a 10’ long feed bunk and have ewes that jump in it. One ewe tries to eat the feed as I pour it, making it splatter everywhere, so she taught me to give her a handful of feed with one hand and pour feed with the other. She is a really good trainer and I learn fast.
use a 10’ long feed bunk and have ewes that jump in it. One ewe tries to eat the feed as I pour it, making it splatter everywhere, so she taught me to give her a handful of feed with one hand and pour feed with the other. She is a really good trainer and I learn fast.
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rachels.haven
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Ooo, I hate it when they do that, but I can sort of understand the urge to want to put your mouth in the flow of something yummy and just ...go baleen whale, when very very hungry, I guess, so I can't totally get mad at them, especially with the competition. That feed has to be something special to them, I hope. Either that or goats and sheep feel like they're always starving.
This year I got feed bunks too (5' because they fit in the van and truck without protrusion to keep Mark happy) and I enclosed a line of them in cattle panels and make everyone reach through to prevent jumping in. I wish they had sheep goat feed bunks that came with the panels attached enclosing the bunk part. In the goats and sheeps' defenses, the bunks look like beds. It kind of makes me wonder if cows and horses do any better with them or if feed bunks are just flawed...or maybe goats and sheep are just flawed, lol.
