Bruce

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Wow, glad you have all the LGDs. Sounds like it is time to be ready at all times to back them up with some lead. Those critters are WAY too bold and CLOSE.
 

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Thought I'd pop on here and share these pics of some of our boys :love

We recently had a big tree come down. I was milking and happened to look up....see a tree coming down, right into the area our Nigerian Dwarf bucks are kept :eek: Thank goodness they are okay! They were about 10 feet from where it landed, huddled against their hay feeder. I'm guessing they were eating hay and saw/heard the tree falling, and just huddled in instead of running. The tree had termites.
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Isaac, our old man Will, and Jelly Bean the wether were happy to have some more forage.
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Isaac munching away.
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Fatso Henry (back) and Templeton in the front. Templeton is our only horned buck.
We don't use him (unregistered). He's just a hay burner :rolleyes:
You can't see it in the pic, but Henry has an UDDER :confused: We have had milk bucks, but not to the extent that Henry is!
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good looking boys, I guess that's where all those nice babies come from. olaf is looking wonderful.
 

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A few weeks ago we talked with the manager of our local TSC about ordering some cobalt blocks.

It's been two days. They ordered 40 blocks.

We got a couple for us and a couple for some friends. (After we took some)

This is from last night.
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Stopped by today to grab two blocks for another friend
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Looks like TSC found a new product to carry.

Thanks to the pic show on the homepage, I saw this post. I didn't even know what a "cobalt block" was until I looked it up. I guess it's a salt-lick?
 

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Thanks to the pic show on the homepage, I saw this post. I didn't even know what a "cobalt block" was until I looked it up. I guess it's a salt-lick?
It is a salt lick but has cobalt added to it. It is a very low level and still best to have sufficient cobalt in your loose minerals. Most goat minerals are insufficient in cobalt values.

BTW I love the scrolling pics too! One of my favorite features!:thumbsup
 

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Whew... had a few minutes and thought I'd share just why Goat Whisperer and I have been MIA here at BYH.

We started kidding in Feb. more kidding in March. Then more in April. Then a few weeks break and again in May and again in June.
42 kids this year.
:th:th:th

I was still disbudding in July and will be wethering next week a few more goats. We are still bottle feeding 16 kids.
It may be 18... I don't even know anymore. We had 20 on the milkline but started drying off some.
We are doing milktest and showing as well.

A month ago we had a baby goat get severely injured. We have been doing leg treatments that are unbelievably time consuming. We are still treating and don't know if she will lose the leg or not. Surgery this week hopefully. Lots of vet visits for rechecks.

We really could not have picked a worse year to start test. I posted about this awhile back... but no, it hasn't gotten better. Our two feed stores that we use special order for us. Somehow they didn't put in our order.:hit We had to suddenly switch feeds - big goats little goats! All goats. It was a nightmare. We also had a hard time getting the hay we liked. When you feed almost 75-100 lbs a day that is a serious issue. So now we have to switch everyone back.
We decided to just dry off a bunch of goats. It is just not worth it right now. We are still on test, I like the data but will be drying off a bunch more goats.

We don't even want to think about breeding season. I am thinking of just milking some through, leaving some dry and skipping them for a year.
Meanwhile we are reducing but it has not been easy decisions. We are picky where our goats go and it seems everyone wants goats but want them for nothing. :\
NO.

They are off at a show and so I am holding down the farm here-all the goats were milked, babies fed, injured goat taken care of and I thought I'd say hi.

HI! :frow

I am thinking we shouldn't have done this show. We have so many other things later in the week and this weekend.

Still working on getting house ready and looking for another ... as always... right land -wrong house. Right house- wrong land.

Hoping all of you are having a good summer. :)
 

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