Roll Farms - Herdstock is over, and I'm feeling hung over, lol

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Tomorrow. Picking them up, then Freeney....pics will be posted, no worries.

Can I ask how much you had to pay?

Here a breed Nubian is like $350 and higher.

And one more question, do you ask about CL and CAE? Or do you test when you get home and hanle accordingly? But you always bottle feed, so CAE not really an issue for you. Just curious.

 

[Roll farms]

Both tested CAE/CL neg in 2011.

I paid a bit more than $350.00 ea....They're actually from different breeders who live close to eachother, so I didn't even get a bulk discount, lol. $400.00 for one, $475.00 for the other.

BUT, since I've sold so many here lately, and I'm using that money to buy these....DH can't complain.
If he does, I'll march him out to his bunny barn and ask, did it REALLY need linoleum floors????


On another note....A friend of mine has a very sick doe. She had listeriosis-like symptoms Monday, Debbie (my friend) had the vet out and she's been responding to treatment. She was going out of town and asked if I'd come give her her shots over the weekend. So we went last night to see where in the barn the goat is, and to pick up the meds....and the doe was down on her side, flailing. We stood her up, and she has no control in her back end now, just really weak.
So she calls the vet again and 'we' decided to give her Dex and treat for menengeal worm, just in case that's the problem. She's propped up between hay bales, able to eat / drink, but can't stand.
Really, really hoping I don't find a dead goat in her barn this morning....I do not want to have to call her.

When we get done there, we're heading off to pick up the goats.

Pics later.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

... did it REALLY need linoleum floors????

I can not say anything all of my chiken houses have linoleum floors.

On another note....A friend of mine has a very sick doe. She had listeriosis-like symptoms Monday, Debbie (my friend) had the vet out and she's been responding to treatment. She was going out of town and asked if I'd come give her her shots over the weekend. So we went last night to see where in the barn the goat is, and to pick up the meds....and the doe was down on her side, flailing. We stood her up, and she has no control in her back end now, just really weak.
So she calls the vet again and 'we' decided to give her Dex and treat for menengeal worm, just in case that's the problem. She's propped up between hay bales, able to eat / drink, but can't stand.
Really, really hoping I don't find a dead goat in her barn this morning....I do not want to have to call her.

You are amazing. I down to you. Some day I hope to have 1/2 the knowledge you have acquired.

Hope your trip this day is uneventul. Can not wait to see pics of your new girls.

 

[jodief100]

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Sounds like with those papers and bred to a nice buck... you got a pretty fair price. A couple does out of them or a breeding quality buck or three and you'll have made your money back.

 

[Roll farms]

I don't think the sick doe's going to make it.

We found her weak, on her back....she must have flopped backward after we stood her up / left this morning. We simply can't be here and there and keep her upright, even though I wish I could.

Gave her a good long drink of water, put her back on her sternum again....we'll go back at 6pm for her shots / final check for the night.

Risque *might* be in labor, I didn't really have time to watch for contractions but her udder has went boom and she's got a pretty big gob o' goo on her twee.

 

[Roll farms]

Sick doe was on her back again at 6pm. :/ Hand fed her and got her to drink some molasses water and gave her her shots.
Part of the problem is this doe had the biggest precocious udder I'd ever seen in my life, she's never kidded / been bred or even seen a buck...then she got mastitis last year...and her udder got so stinking big and heavy it caused her spine to curve, she's pretty hump-backed...so instead of sitting on her butt when her back legs give out, she lands on her spine and rolls over backward. We moved the hay bales around and hopefully she won't spend the night upside down, flailing.

On a happier note, FREENEY'S HOME - thanks for feeding my goat for 4 mos, Rog. (He's getting a Levi kid in trade). He's 10 mos old now.

Now the new goats -
Here is Lacey, a yearling FF - bred to a Pruittsville buck.

And my new fav. goat (Don't tell Penny) - Allegro. You can just tell she's sensible...and QUIET. A rare find in a Nubian....

She's bred to a Kastdemur buck.

Both are due in March.

Just made a huge pot of sketti, DH's bff is coming for movies / food tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be nice next weekend and I can get them started on my greenhouse kit....

 

[daisychick]

So pretty I just love them! Nubians have the cutest faces. And Welcome home Freeney! He is sooooo handsome!

 

[ksalvagno]

Very nice!

 

[Queen Mum]

The place where I moved from in Oklahoma... The people were jerks, but their Nubians were the quietest Nubians I have ever met. And the goats were HUGE! I was quite shocked with how quiet they were. Must have been the water... tee hee.