Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

Rigs had her kids today!

Triplets, 2 bucks 1 doe. One buckling was DOA when my son checked on the goats and found that she had kidded but the other 2 are doing fine. The little girl is red with dark spots but both boys are/were 80% white! Gorgeous! We have some weak legs so I am going to do BoSe for them. April is when the whole herd is due for Copper and Selenium so I will just start with these ones for now. Copper is on the way in the mail.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Congrats

 

[Southern by choice]

Awesome!

Sorry about the DOA.

 

[babsbag]

What !!!! No pictures????

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Rigs baby boy

Rigs baby girl

 

[babsbag]

Thanks for the pictures. You are right, they are gorgeous; I just love those spots.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Rigs is doing good taking care of her kids. She shoves her fat butt under the shelf where they sleep so she can be near them at night. She lets them eat for a really long amount of time compared to most FF. Today she had them out in the sun a few times. They are getting around pretty good and sleeping near each other now. They are so cute! The little boy is nice and stocky with a thick neck. Hopefully he will sell pretty easily.

Here is a better pic of Rigs little girl

We have some bantam chocolate orpington chicks I need to sell.

And we had a couple of new goslings hatch from my lavender sebastopols! I think they are already sold too. I took them away from the lavs to make sure they get held and hopefully stay tamer. I love seeing mamas and babies together, but the geese stay wild if they are raised by the flock. Of course Crabby Abby our resident 21 year old goose immediately wanted those babies, so she is in their little pen keeping them warm tonight.... less work for me that way and no worries about heat lamps getting too hot or not warm enough....

Today we moved one of the fences. We put the dog yard fence back to the edge of the house, effectively doubling the size of the backyard that the dogs have access to and making it easier to unload hay as I will only have the one gate to back the trailer through.

 

[babsbag]

You know you aren't selling that SPOTTED buckling. Just sayin' you are addicted to spots.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

LOL! If he was a she you would be right! He is really stout like his mama. But I already have 2 boer bucks .... and I will be needing an unrelated buck if I keep Baileys kids (still trying to talk myself into letting Nikki go, but she loves me!!! ) And besides, boer bucks are so much harder to keep than the nigi bucks. I can add another sweet boy to my nigi pen easily. Boer bucks shake the earth like elephant stampedes and injure each other when rut comes around, so they require their own bachelor pads to keep the peace. Hippy that I am, I like the peace.