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

[Roll farms]

It depends on the doe....Some just grow faster / better than others.
I go by the '8 mos / 80#' rule, but adjust accordingly. I bred a BoKi doe at 90# / 7 mos. once who delivered trips on her 1st b-day w/ no problems. Her after kidding weight was 120#.
Moonie (who just left) was #75 at 10 mos, but just didn't look big enough, so I didn't breed her at all.

She will be 8 mos. old on Oct. 14th....I'm thinking of naming her "Valentine" - she was born on V-day....we will see how much she weighs then and go from there.

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

It depends on the doe....Some just grow faster / better than others.
I go by the '8 mos / 80#' rule, but adjust accordingly. I bred a BoKi doe at 90# / 7 mos. once who delivered trips on her 1st b-day w/ no problems. Her after kidding weight was 120#.
Moonie (who just left) was #75 at 10 mos, but just didn't look big enough, so I didn't breed her at all.

She will be 8 mos. old on Oct. 14th....I'm thinking of naming her "Valentine" - she was born on V-day....we will see how much she weighs then and go from there.

I love the name Valentine for her. She really is adorable. I can't get over how pretty she is. You don't see a boer that color too often (I haven't anyway.) Usually the pretty goats with spots are almost always boys!
To me, she is worth every bit of that $1,000. Good luck and have a safe trip!

 

[autumnprairie]

When does she come home? I love the name good choice

 

[neener92]

What a beautiful girl!

 

[20kidsonhill]

It depends on the doe....Some just grow faster / better than others.
I go by the '8 mos / 80#' rule, but adjust accordingly. I bred a BoKi doe at 90# / 7 mos. once who delivered trips on her 1st b-day w/ no problems. Her after kidding weight was 120#.
Moonie (who just left) was #75 at 10 mos, but just didn't look big enough, so I didn't breed her at all.

She will be 8 mos. old on Oct. 14th....I'm thinking of naming her "Valentine" - she was born on V-day....we will see how much she weighs then and go from there.

I personally think the doe almost does better breeding her using the 8 months/ 80lb rule rather than letting her get older and fatter and overweight, especially the boer does. I have been very happy with kidding the does out at 12 to 14 months of age. As long as they are above 80lb, I try to go a little closer to 90lbs.

Good luck with her. Looking forward to seeing pictures next winter or spring from her and bullet.

 

[Roll farms]

Well in other news....I shut my incubator off 2 or 3 wks ago.
Put some eggs in there Saturday. Noticed Monday that...hey....that turner hasn't moved.
Sure enough DH dismembered...uh...disassembled...it today and the turner quit working.

So I'm fittin' to pay $100.00 to get a new turner because a lady paid me in advance for $10.00 worth of Buff Orp chicks.

I hate math...... Mine never adds up.

Had to work tonight, have farm visits tomorrow (potential buyers coming to 'meet goats'). Might have one of Risque's boys sold...the intererested party emailed me a pic of their kid w/ a prize winning goat and asked, "Will your goat be as nice as this one, and win?"

I dislike buyers like that, they want a guarantee.....we've had CH goats....but you can't guarantee that sort of thing....so I told her, "The parents are structurally correct, big, healthy animals, and these boys have potential- if fed, cared for, and handled properly, to be 'winners', but I can't promise anything."

Speaking of promises....I promised DH that if I bought Valentine that I WOULD NOT BUY any more goats for the rest of the year.
I'll explode from all my excess gas if I really have to go that long.

Going to get the kid on Sunday, weather permitting.

 

[redtailgal]

PS....LOOK at this FACE~

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y299/kritter11/Zaharas7.jpg

ooooohhhhh, that was mean of you!!!! show off!

Seriously, someday we are all gonna have to get together!

 

[TTs Chicks]

PS....LOOK at this FACE~

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y299/kritter11/Zaharas7.jpg

she's adorable

 

[Roll farms]

Yesterday was crazy....But in a good way. Still on baby watch w/ Ellie....but nothing is happening.

Got up, did chores, past. the milk, cleaned up the mess, ordered the part for my incubator, answered emails then headed back to the barn to shave preggo butts.
Cleaned up the barn a bit b/c we had a 'visitor' coming.

Some friends of ours call and ask if they can stop by around 1 or 2 pm. "Sure", say I.

This is an older retired couple we met a few years ago, Tom and Ginny - they used to have peafowl and I bought eggs from them to hatch. We've gotten to be pretty close since then and they are just such sweet, generous, funny people, I wish y'all could meet them. And OMG, her yard / flowers...she's who I wanna be when I grow up....

The last time we were at their house I admired a table the wife had made or refinished. She's just so handy / crafty it's not funny. She's also the one who gave me the windows and doors for my projects.

Tom said, "C'mere, Kim, I got something for ya." and opened the van and look what they made me:

A table just like hers! (I'm not sure if it's a table or a cart or what the 'technical' name is for it, but I love it.)


He also made this

We had a really nice visit for a while and Jeff (my dh) mentioned that he'd been working on my incubator.
I made the 'spent 100$ on a motor to hatch $10 worth of eggs' joke to them and Tom says, "Lemme take a look at it." (retired electrician) and wouldn't you just know after about 10 minutes of tinkering and some 3-in-1-oil, he got the turner turning again.

No guarantees it'll last but it's enough to get these current eggs turning again so

Then -Tom and Ginny loaded up Flash (their ancient basset hound) and took off.

Then -there was a fellow coming at 3:30 pm to meet us, who's taken over the position of 'activities director' at the Limberlost site, where Author Gene Stratton Porter lived / wrote for 25 years. http://www.genestrattonporter.net/
We've done 'animal demos' there in the past and since he's new he wanted to meet people he might like to get help from in the future.

He was really interesting to talk to, he's worked all over at lots of places, w/ alligators / reptiles as his specialty. He wrote a book (not yet published) about his pet Nutria, a giant rat-like animals around swamps, and he got a kick out of my prairie dog and cavy.

So now....We might take some rabbits to Limberlost for their Easter programs.

After he left, we did PM chores / milking and took off after that to tattoo some friend's baby Boer goats for fair. They live about 30 min. away so it takes as long to get there as it does to do the work.

While we're there, I mention we "might" be looking for a new 'meat' doe for Jeff to use, to cross to his Silver Fox buck...he'd sold our NZ doe and now suddenly everyone wants "cheap" breeding stock for meat animals. The friend walks over to a cage and hands DH a nice young NZ doe he was saving to show, but her eye got scratched so now he can't.... Welcome to Roll Farms, Blinky. I traded 5 gallon of goat milk for her. (He's buying it to feed to 2 of his rejected boer babies).

*whew*

By then it's 7pm so we stopped at Arby's on the way home (I wasn't about to come home and start cookin'), took our showers, and I fell asleep during Criminal Minds.

Here's to a less hectic, Ellie kidding day today....

 

[autumnprairie]

WOW you had a productive day. I love the table/ cart and the goat plaque. I love days like that. congrats on a fixed turner and NZ doe.