Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

[Hens and Roos]

Since I had extra help this morning we did another round of weights:

Maggie's kids at 6.5 weeks
Cinnamon- 17 lbs 1 oz
Pepper- 9 lbs 3oz
Gingi- 16 lbs 13 oz
Clove- 9 lbs 1oz

Obie's kid at 5.5 weeks
Pringle- 17 lbs 1 oz

Melaine's kids at 5 weeks
Finn- 18 lbs 5 oz
Charlie- 15 lbs 6 oz

Coco's kids at 4.4 weeks
Cheeto- 13 lbs 3 oz
Basil- 10 lbs 2 oz
Aiden- 11 lbs 15 oz

Guessing the next time we take weights, we will have to be standing on the scale with them as the bigger ones aren't fitting into our bag so well

 

[Latestarter]

Pepper and Clove are so much smaller than their siblings... I hope they eventually catch up.

 

[Ferguson K]

That's pretty solid weights

 

[Hens and Roos]

Pepper and Clove are so much smaller than their siblings... I hope they eventually catch up.

This has been an on going discussion at our house- from what we have observed Maggie heavily favors her bucklings over the doelings. We tried offering the 2 doelings extra bottles but unfortunately they didn't take to this thought. At evening chores, DH has been holding Maggie so the 2 doelings can nurse longer and get their stomachs full. Given what we have seen this time around, we will probably pull doelings next time and bottle feed them. We probably could have pulled them when they were younger but with everything that has been going on at our house it just wasn't happening.......

We are hoping that once we start weaning the bucklings(hoping to start this next week)the doelings will get more.

 

[samssimonsays]

Ummmm.... WHY? do you live there?

I'm not sure..... I don't do not by choice.

 

[samssimonsays]

The babies are looking great hope the girls get more once the boys get weaned.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Had someone contact me yesterday- asking if we had an older pair of goats needing a pet home- wanted for helping clear an area and to be pets only- wethers or does didn't matter to them. Told her I would check with DD and youngest DS(11) and get back to them....

because, we have another party interested in a pair of wethers and thinking of adding a doe at a later date so we are waiting to hear if they want Marsh and Monty- who are coming up on a year or if they want 2 wethers from this years kidding.

we do have Moose and Monkey our tiny does from last years kidding-not sure they will grow to size, we do know that the kids wont be able to show them at fair this year because of their small size. When we asked DD and DS(11) about the possibility of these 2 leaving....

DS(11) just kind of looked at me and I could tell from his look,it was quickly decided that Moose and Monkey would be staying and we would be giving them more time to hopefully grow.

 

[samssimonsays]

I know that feeling... I have had it with rabbits for many years now.

 

[Latestarter]

awwww... always tuff to let them go. hope it all works out.

 

[Hens and Roos]

I know that feeling... I have had it with rabbits for many years now.

for us it's the Angora rabbits, especially our favorites!