Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

"Fra Gi Le" practicing to be clown, walking on his hind legs.....

"Sanic" the hungry little hedgehog

"Snickers" Littles doe kid

 

[babsbag]

Cute little things for sure. Who is that wildly colored little monster with the bottle in the first picture?

 

[ragdollcatlady]

What beautiful goats, their coats are sure nice and shiny and of course I LOVE those spots.

Thanks! Their baby coats are being grown out and their adult coats are coming in nice and slick. Mini Mac and Casper still have their ultra soft baby coats.

Who is that wildly colored little monster with the bottle in the first picture?

That is Mrrrrgan. She was the first of Reeses kids so she is nicknamed after my oldest. I told them to figure out something to help keep track of birth order as we were delivering them and that is what they came up with.

 

[babsbag]

Makes sense...first goat...first child....reasonable enough. Does she have blue eyes too?

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Yeah, the 2 kids with blue eyes are my favorite color pattern. She is buckskin and Derpy is a chocolate buckskin. I have been meaning to keep a buck out of Reese for awhile and I have been trying to hold onto a few of her doe kids because of her style and udder. StinkerBelle, Little Italy, Briar Rose (she just sold to our 4H friends, but with a deal to breed back for 1st choice kid).... With StinkerBelles success this year, you can see why.

I am loving the style and blending of FraGiLe and I love little Sanics personality and body type too. If I wasn't trying to keep my numbers reasonable, Sanic would actually be my first choice to hold back. Mrrrrgan will essentially be taking Djahlis place. Hopefully her style will be similar. Djahli was one of Little Italys larger triplet siblings that I had kept back. Haven't had one with quite that much style and finesse since.

 

[babsbag]

I understand the numbers thing. If I wasn't trying to limit how many I own I would be getting another buck from you.

I am not sure how the minis will work out for milk so I am a little hesitant to "make" a buck for the does I have if they don't milk well enough and I really won't know until the second freshening... It gets confusing...

 

[Southern by choice]

Can't you find something you need to do out here in NC?
I need a Mini Nubian that is good. Not the yuck I see out there.
Babs needs a mini mancha which I have several for her to pic from.

 

[babsbag]

We should just meet in the middle.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Can't you find something you need to do out here in NC?
I need a Mini Nubian that is good. Not the yuck I see out there.
Babs needs a mini mancha which I have several for her to pic from.

I saw 1 gorgeous mini nubian buckling. I inquired. Haven't heard back yet. I could use him over Madeline and Whoopsie next year so he wouldn't be just for a single doe......

I know what you mean about unimpressive. It seems like most of the mini nubians have been created by breeding average goats rather than better quality animals to each other. I understand that if you are able to make money of your best purebreds, you don't need to "waste" breeding time on minis of they aren't your first breeding interest, but still. Alot of the minis look like round, generic mixed breed goats to me. Madeline with her airplane ears might end up looking a little like that her in the near future too, but I sure hope not.

As far as a trip, I really don't travel well. By that I mean... "vacation" is a bad word and if you threaten me with one of those, I will kick you in the shins! Comprendes?

 

[Southern by choice]

Yeah, it is sad with the mini's. Too many are so focused on ears/head and dang the udders... I want to bleach my eyes out after looking at some of them.
Some are ok but not worth 500-600. That is nuts.
Every time I inquire I ask for udder shots. I always find it funny that people don't post those. YIKES!

First gens can look more like the nigie side if it is 50/50 but usually even those will lose that look by two years old. I think the f-2 gens are the hardest especially if you are keeping it to 50/50's.