Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

We weighed Beefaroni today since I was trying to update the sale add on him... He weighed in at 95-97 lbs. I am happy with that. He doesn't look as big as I would like so I am happy that his weight is decent. He was born last April so he is around 10 1/2 months old. He has primarily been raised on little to no grain, just hay, except during weaning and then recently, as we started up grain for the winter recovery. I am so ready for everyone to fill out and regain condition again.

Here are some pics from today.

We have been weighing DS baby goat REO Speedwagon every monday and he is consistently gaining about 4 lbs a week. He was 51 lbs last week. We started halter training him. We are just at the 'put it on during feeding' stage since he is small enough that it just slips off if you try to lead him anywhere just yet.

DS2 (one of my twins)was just here. It is so fun having the 3 boys together. They get so excited to be together. It has been a short 2 days. DS1 mentioned that we are very close as a family. More than most of his friends families. I'll take that as a parenting done right point! (Not sure how many of those points I will get so they all count.)

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Trying to teach Wiley to lay nicely under the chair while I use the computer is proving to be very difficult.... Some Pirate keeps distracting her. Grabbing her tail, smacking her nose....eating my kids cards.....

 

[ragdollcatlady]

We are on kid watch with Bailey up first. She is a really big boer goat and has a huge belly. I really want girls to keep, but practically, boys to sell would be better. She doesn't like eating minerals, so I started her on a grain mix already to hopefully increase her vitamin/mineral uptake that way. As long as everyone is healthy I will be thrilled! Day 150 would be March 1.

I just got my membership info back from ABGA. My herd name was approved as well as the same tattoo I use for my dairy goats.

 

[Latestarter]

That's great news on the ABGA membership and herd name. OK, so joining you on kid watch, waiting on Bailey to deliver the goods!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

DS was helping me outside a few minutes ago. He blessed Bailey (or something like that...) "HOLY COW!" is actually what he said... For a minute I was concerned that he forgot we didn't have cows, but then I realized, she is rather the size of a small cow! Her udder is filling just fine and her rear needs a 'wide load' sign. I told her she can have her kids today, tomorrow if she must or Wednesday even, but NOT on Tuesday since we have Farm Day.


We dusted all the big boers and the 'little' boys with DE. We have Farm Day on Tuesday so I think we should wait to dust the others when we get back. I did trim Cherrys hooves (DS3s mama goat) and gave her copper and selenium since the previous owner didn't do those for his herd. We also did Beefaronis selenium since according to my records we didn't do his at the same time as the rest of the herd. It took a few days to get the whole herd done so glad I wrote it all down.

We tried to put bands on Swaggers horns, but I don't think it will work.... I'll let you know how it goes.

It is beautiful outside but getting hot.

Yesterday I found 2 eggs in the lavendar sebastopol pen! Yeah! Hope they are fertile and they keep laying. This is really late. Normally my geese start laying around the first. This time, they started in November/December and then quit.

 

[babsbag]

DS was helping me outside a few minutes ago. He blessed Bailey (or something like that...) "HOLY COW!" is actually what he said... For a minute I was concerned that he forgot we didn't have cows, but then I realized, she is rather the size of a small cow!

You made me laugh at that one. I have a few cows out there too so I understand.

About the minerals that she won't eat...I had the same problem with most of my goats so I switched to Magnum Milk by Caprine and they love them. Maybe try another brand.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Farm Day was a success. We are exhausted! Sadly, there seemed to be far fewer presenters both big farm types and small personal types at this years event. We took: 2 Nubians Brie and Colby, 5 Nigerians,Little Italy, Pearl, KJ, Spellbound,Calico Pony, 2 Boers Cherry and Speedwagon, 2 geese, mama duck and her babies, a pair of bantam chocolate orpingtons, 1 Maran hen and 1 Ameraucana hen and 2 silkie hens. I had 3 boys to help thank goodness! We had several classes show up early or at a wrong time, but we just did the other half of the presentation for the 'other' group so it all worked out OK and the kids had fun. One girl was so confused about baby goats being called "kids". She kept asking me, 'you know, like a lamb is a baby sheep???'... LOL! One child tried to help by suggesting that goat kids are spelled with 2 D's...DS1s favorite kid was a little girl that got REALLY excited about the silkies. I guess, every time he mentioned silkies or showed the pics of them, she would get more excited....and then he pulled one out for her to hold!!! I have a feeling she is going to remember today!

Baileys udder is filling up, it is all the way down to her hocks!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that had no power this morning! Like the whole house was out! So only as much water in the taps as was left in the holding tank and water heater and we had no lights, no cooking , no coffee! We did have LOTS of deodorant... (haha! actually we had done the showers and stuff at night so we were OK on that) and we got breakfast sandwiches on the way. They had coffee there for us so we survived!

 

[OneFineAcre]

Nice update
Glad Farm Day went well

 

[babsbag]

Farm day sounds like fun. Who sponsors the event and where do the kids come from? Aren't the kids (human ones) in school today?

Nothing better than a boer that has enough milk to raise her kids. That is sadly lacking in many of the high end boer goats. Can't wait to see her kids.