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...and Snowflake is still open and her ship to processing date is this week. :(

On a different note, I arranged earlier to get an AI son by Little Orchard BR Pure Thrill (lamancha) from out west next month and suddenly I've got an opportunity to bring in a Kastdemur's buck that is 50% rocking cb and heavily Lucky*Star's as well from 4 hours away from a well known long time breeder too to act as my related out cross in constructing our pedigrees. We'd be adding a dash of Kastdemur's too. Hopefully it doesn't decrease dairyness too much. I may use him to market kids to show people while still seeing if I can prove a few of his offsprings in the dairy dept still.

Apparently you can get nice bucks after the breeding season ends too. (Transport gets harder though, this time seller was willing to drive him up for a little extra)
 
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Shipped my mastitis doe and my uterine infection/fail to settle doe. There will be meat picked up next week. We went all the way out to Sharpsburg. Somehow they were eating half the alfalfa I've been putting out each time and I didn't have to refill the alfalfa this morning after last night. Two goats out of like 21. Go figure.

Since my little white ND buck Beaul is not able to be used for an indefinite amount of time until the drama is over (and I'm not sure I want to use him) I'm picking up a very nice buck from Phoenix Farm in Mechanicsville this Saturday for fall 2025. Fall 2024 is done and over so pricing is very reasonable. Hopefully his pedigree fits with Oberon's. He'll be over 2 when I use him and already old enough now I'm not super concerned about corporal hyper extension.

Cookie my female LGD puppy is being spayed tomorrow. I can't have her cycling with the neighbor's intact ridgeback/hound cross being allowed to run around everywhere and a probably not legal pit bull kennel across the way. I don't want her roaming or them coming over here to hurt animals...and then there's the issue of puppies. Those are NOT crosses I'd want. We do have Drago in the buck pen too, a young intact male...I really just don't want oops puppies or the stress that comes with preventing them. We got her in at a low cost place. Price for spaying an animal is through the roof right now.

We had more people trying to move into our house yesterday. Different people. BUT suddenly we're under contract with a closing date around the end of January. It's contingent on the closing of their house, but I think it will go. We're also shopping for backup offers. We lowered the sale price to just above the offer we accepted and it's getting activity. (Backup offers may not be good, offers have consistently been about $50-100k below listed price with buyers becoming very head up about and straight up rejecting any offer to counter)

And finally I'm braving the risks of working with flour today to quietly make some proportioned chocolate chip cookie dough balls to freeze so we can have surprise chocolate chip cookies over the holidays. I was able to prevent flour "poofage" while mixing and got it off my hands fast enough I don't feel itchy right now. I'll use my dough scooper to get it balled out and then freeze it and hopefully that will be that (secretly, lol).
 
I now have 6 or 7 impulse sealed bags of one dozen cookie dough balls in my freezer and one dozen baked. I'm going to make a few other kinds of cookie dough balls for baking over the next few days. I need a distraction. Helps that I can't eat them.
 
The Lucky Star bloodline will definitey produce milk - lots of milk since they go for milk stars on everything they keep. Not so sure about the Kastdemur line. Hurray for you! :weee

Keeping an unspayed working bitch with males around is a hassle Since you have 2 intact working males, you are smart to spay her. The problem is that even if you can isolate her, the males are not as interested in working as they are in her. Whioe they might keep strange males away, you don;t want to have dogfights going on since injuries result in vet bills and lower the working abiity until they heal.

Ugh on the plumbing problems!
 
@Ridgetop Hopefully the Kastdemur will be a dash of less related genetics that I can circle back in.
In regards to Kastdemur's, I'm with you on I'm not sure what it will do. I have a 6 year old doe that's mostly Kastdemur's that milked 2429 lbs including our move this year...but she's not from the Kastdemur's herd. Somebody picked the specific lines of Kastdemur's that got included and the names on her pedigree behind all the lines get old fast. I don't think she's the same kind of Kastdemurs as they're breeding today at all. (She's also got Lucky*Star's QM Paragon lurking.)
Thankfully we only have one intact male. Riker was so feral when he was young as soon as he started trying to climb the fence to get to female dogs in THAT curious way I caught him and had his boys removed because if he got out I knew we'd never catch him again. He was big enough to stand on his hind legs and put his forelegs on my shoulders and look over my head. Man sized dogs are hard to keep in. Even though he stayed just as feral he never tried to escape the fence again after that and he's becoming less feral as he ages. (Riker's the tallest dog I've ever met that wasn't a purebred great Dane)
@Baymule Yep, I'm allergic to wheat and a ton of other things I don't have time to avoid. Wheat makes me the most sick and incapacitated. Not celiac so I don't get to feel legit, but if I try to eat normally-and traditionally I get discouraged/frustrated a couple of times a year and do...or something happens like the MIL poisons me-then I get really sick and get to feel it for a few days. I blame some kind of autoimmune thing, but I guess that's what all allergies are.
 
rachels.haven said:
@Ridgetop Hopefully the Kastdemur will be a dash of less related genetics that I can circle back in.
In regards to Kastdemur's, I'm with you on I'm not sure what it will do. I have a 6 year old doe that's mostly Kastdemur's that milked 2429 lbs including our move this year...but she's not from the Kastdemur's herd. Somebody picked the specific lines of Kastdemur's that got included and the names on her pedigree behind all the lines get old fast. I don't think she's the same kind of Kastdemurs as they're breeding today at all. (She's also got Lucky*Star's QM Paragon lurking.)
Thankfully we only have one intact male. Riker was so feral when he was young as soon as he started trying to climb the fence to get to female dogs in THAT curious way I caught him and had his boys removed because if he got out I knew we'd never catch him again. He was big enough to stand on his hind legs and put his forelegs on my shoulders and look over my head. Man sized dogs are hard to keep in. Even though he stayed just as feral he never tried to escape the fence again after that and he's becoming less feral as he ages. (Riker's the tallest dog I've ever met that wasn't a purebred great Dane)
@Baymule Yep, I'm allergic to wheat and a ton of other things I don't have time to avoid. Wheat makes me the most sick and incapacitated. Not celiac so I don't get to feel legit, but if I try to eat normally-and traditionally I get discouraged/frustrated a couple of times a year and do...or something happens like the MIL poisons me-then I get really sick and get to feel it for a few days. I blame some kind of autoimmune thing, but I guess that's what all allergies are.
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I'm not allergic to wheat, but corn. I have read that much of allergies and autoimmune issues can be blamed on the dessicants sprayed on crops after harvest, to dry them out. Have you considered trying an imported flour? The chemicals that are sprayed on our crops are banned in Europe. Just a thought.
 
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I'm not allergic to wheat, but corn. I have read that much of allergies and autoimmune issues can be blamed on the dessicants sprayed on crops after harvest, to dry them out. Have you considered trying an imported flour? The chemicals that are sprayed on our crops are banned in Europe. Just a thought.
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That's very insightful and very possible. I've never thought of "wheat" as a compound of what it's been treated with before and after harvest.
 
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