Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

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How's the DS? Hopefully it didn't actually rip hair from his scalp, but that must have hurt. Poor kid! Is this the same one that got beaten up by the turkey? If it is, I wouldn't blame the kid if he starts to get a complex about animals. :cool:

Edit: Oldtimers strikes... maybe was someone else's son who got turkey beaten...
 

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I would take off all of the horns too, but Rocky got to keep his in case he ever went in a show ring...Boers have to have horns to be ennobled. They can win in the ring without horns, but no ennoblement. But if he will never be shown then get rid of those dang things.
 

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Strawberry Shortcake is just so much more photogenic than her sister! Blueberry Melanie, Ravis blue/grey dappled doe kid just blends right in to the dirt and trees in the background. Combine that with dusk and I can't seem to get decent pics of her. Strawberry Shortcake seems to always be standing just so... posed!
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Went to visit grandma this weekend....:)

We stopped and dropped off @babsbag new nigerian buck kid and picked up a new doeling :D =D . Our nigis are getting a little snug in our genetics department. I still have bucks that aren't related to does that I can breed with, but almost all the kids this next year will have several matching bloodlines with everyone else. I haven't bought new nigerian does since our original 4, Jane, Georgia, Reese and Spellbound. With the 2 of them retired (Jane and Georgia), we just have a couple of girls out of Reese and Spelly to work with.

Our new kid is out of Castle Rock Dairy lines, dark brown with roaning and blue eyes. But her eyes are actually blue on the inside, brown on the outer rim. When Spelly has kids born like that, they always turn pale brown within a couple of weeks. This kid is about 4 months old though. She walks on a leash great and was very good about not pooping in grandmas house. :clapThe only accident she had was near the end of our visit and it was my fault as she was asking to go out and I wasn't quick enough getting her there. We had a good visit with grandma and then we stopped to visit some of my cousins/aunt and uncle.

We were almost in a head on high speed collision on the way home. :barnie Grandmas and cousins prayers to keep us safe on the journey home, surely worked! Someone was trying to pass on a 2 lane highway and they were coming straight at us, in our lane. They barely swerved to the edge of the road, flanking us between them and the opposing traffic. If I had tried to swerve, we would have most likely flipped and rolled down the embankment. Glad our guardian angels were with us!
 
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