Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[babsbag]

She lives on the other side of the earth because there needs to be another goat addict living in CA other than me.

Another black buck would be ok as color doesn't milk but color is sure fun.

 

[Ferguson K]

I need to stop eyeballing bucks in this forum or I'll end up like Southern with one to many one to many times.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

@Southernbychoice, I think @babsbag needs to take a road trip to go visit you and swap bucks for us....

Your Elliot has much more dairy style than most of the minis I see offered here in Cali. Very nice! I also wanted blue eyes in my minis, so I bred with the possibility for that too. These 2 little minis seem to have alot of width between the rear legs even when they run. Hopefully some of that width is from Swagger. I would like that on more of my nigerians. I hope Madeleine (Kennys sister) will have as nice of an udder as her mom. I do need to get pics of Bries udder.

@Ferguson K, (singing the following) "Bucks are wonderful, bucks are nice, big or small, they are so nice!!! Except for their stinky stunkerness!!!"

@babsbag, I haven't totally sold myself on it, but I might think of letting Casanova go if you were interested in him. He is a really sweet guy.....I have his kid, Backyard Swagger. (Swag has Jack and Casanova so I have both of those super lines in one buck.) He is a mahogany buckskin with blue eyes.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Boer baby update:

Ghost Rider weighed in at 33lbs at 30 days. So her ADG was .70 lbs I was REALLY hoping she would stay higher than that. But I think we are still a little bit above average.

Nicollete Cage weighed in at 26lbs. Her ADG is .60 lbs

Both girls are beautiful and active. I wish I could creep feed them. I am sure they would be growing faster if I could. Unfortunately Ravi would eat all of it.

The other day we had a 'wreck' in the yard. Nikki was playing in the yard and she got lost. She couldn't see mom amidst the 4 foot high weeds and she panicked. She started hollering and running as fast as she could. Mom heard her and started running towards her, around a curve in the weeds....They crashed head on, or rather mom ran over her baby speedbump! LOL! It was pretty funny. Noone was injured so it is all good!

 

[babsbag]

That is still really good ADG on your goats. My friend that is much more Boer knowledgeable than my says that ADG is calculated starting at weaning, she says that is when it gets hard.

Casanova sounds like he would work out so if you decide to sell let me know the price and we can go from there.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Casanova sounds like he would work out so if you decide to sell let me know the price and we can go from there.

Will do!

I am so stressed out I threw up my first cup of coffee this morning! I know TMI. What a waste of perfectly good coffee! My truck threw a "check gages" code yesterday so I ran her out to the shop. By the time we got there, the light was off and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. So we did an oil change and they brought her back to me at work. My shop is 20 minutes away, a town over so that was really nice of them. But on my way home from work the same light came on and the battery gauge was not reading. So we dropped her off this morning. I was working all day, but called several times. no answer and no call back. That isn't like my shop at all. On top of it all, I need to get hay, only have enough for the morning. I was going to go a couple days ago on my lunch break, but can't without my truck. My neighbor will go tomorrow and get a few bales to get us through a few days. Thank the lord for good country neighbors! My girlfriend picked me up from work on a moments notice since I had no ride home and had no idea what is going on with my truck... and then she ran me to TSC for dog food and a couple bags of chicken food (totally out of dog food, so the dogs had a fancy breakfast of scrambled eggs cooked just for them, sounds like they are suffering right? ) .... Of course I paid her in Starbucks and a few hours of catching up since I haven't seen her in over a week! Thank the lord for BFFs! (Even non animal loving/non country BFFs!) And to top it all off, of course, the 4H fair is this week starting on Friday, well actually Thursday, but I can't make it thursday and who knows if we will make it at all at this point!

 

[Latestarter]

So sorry... I believe you've had problems with the truck before... Hope it all works out for you, and doesn't break the bank.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Truck is back. One battery cable was corroded so that was replaced. Electrical systems were all checked out and the cable was the only thing they could find so . So far so good!

4H fair was yesterday and today. REO Speedwagon earned the nickname "REO Slowwagon". He was being naughty and laying down the whole time he was being shown. Hilarious, but very obnoxious! He was quite dramatic about collapsing to the floor of course! He insisted that his mama would never make him walk anywhere! She would give him his milkshake and let him take a nap! All the time! Like right now! As he sits like a dog on his haunches in the middle of the fairgrounds!

My kid got 2nd place showmanship (out of 2) and Slowwagon got last in his class. Surprise, surprise. He is a lean 70 lbs, so now we get to start pushing his grain and working on exercising his flabby butt! I swear I saw his belly jiggle every time he flopped down!

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[babsbag]

Glad the truck wasn't fatal. I have a check engine light on in my truck right now too, it isn't fatal either but I can't pass smog until I get it fixed and the smog was due in Jan.

That's just too funny about Speedwagon laying down. Hope he gets a little more speed before the fair.