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RainySunday
Ridin' The Range
Thanks again everyone! We are having fun with them! I thought I'd update with their weights. We weighed them yesterday (so one day shy of a week old) and Hopscotch is now 5 lbs 4oz (up from4 even at birth) and Tag is now 4 lbs 6 oz (up from 3 lbs 3 oz at birth). We have been feeding them 3x/day from the start and increasing about a 1/2 a day (per bottle; so one day was 6 oz/bottle, the next day was 6.5 oz/bottle). I kept them at 7 oz today (yesterday they weren't quite finishing their bottles).
We are thinking about keeping one of them intact to breed our other three girls. The mom, Peekaboo has amazing udder texture! I never knew what people meant when they said "butter texture udder," but NOW I DO! She is producing about 2.25 lbs/day at 1 week fresh. Her rear udder is pretty good, her fore could stand to be improved. Her teats wing forward a bit too. Their dad was super long a level, very well muscled. So, we need to decide who stays intact (or neither), and all that. Which, since I've never evaluated a baby buckling, is going to be interesting.
They will also be getting disbudded tonight. A local mentor is going to show us how.
Tag You're It (Setting himself up (ie, taking a pee)):
Hopscotch (who really needs a better picture taken):
We are thinking about keeping one of them intact to breed our other three girls. The mom, Peekaboo has amazing udder texture! I never knew what people meant when they said "butter texture udder," but NOW I DO! She is producing about 2.25 lbs/day at 1 week fresh. Her rear udder is pretty good, her fore could stand to be improved. Her teats wing forward a bit too. Their dad was super long a level, very well muscled. So, we need to decide who stays intact (or neither), and all that. Which, since I've never evaluated a baby buckling, is going to be interesting.
They will also be getting disbudded tonight. A local mentor is going to show us how.
Tag You're It (Setting himself up (ie, taking a pee)):
Hopscotch (who really needs a better picture taken):
