SBC/GW's Journal- Spring shows DONE! & Update

[Southern by choice]

I am terrible. I should have a bajillion baby pics. But I don't. They are in the house in the bins. We set up a playpen in the shade. The ones that we are co-parenting... yeah, right... they just holler for mama when we try to get pics.

Today though among the thousand things to do I knew I needed to get pic updates for the website- it is so overdue.
I have no pics of Jane since she was a like 9 months old.
We thought we would get some of the goats (kids) we clipped down already. They have no manners though.
I also need to take pics of all the goats we will be listing. Hmmm that is no fun though.
Jane wasn't cooperative. Could be because she had stepped in an ants nest and we didn't know it. We moved her but well... she was ancy. She is also one of the 3 goats that got sick the last milk test we had. We ran out of hay- we got some from an unused source. Milk test day in morning... goats with horrid diarrhea. Jane had it bad, she was covered in the morning. Milk test was terrible. We had to get all the hay out ... no hay all day, just forage. Yeah. tanked the milktest.
She is THIN here I know, but she is still recuperating. She is a great milker so between the milk in the pail and her getting sick it will take time to get weight on. Charlotte had it too. She was scheduled to go to the show- we scratched her.

Warning: Those who don't like goat but pics- go no further!

Here's Jane LOL I told you it was a bust... I guess she decided to poop when I snapped this!

This is my lil Poppy! I LOve Poppy! She is 3 months old now. She is learning lead manners. I tried to get rear shots... she was shaking her tushy back and forth. She is too funny.

Dancing Queen told us just what she thought of all this!

She wasn't very cooperative but look at that rear!

And then there is Trudy. Oh Trudy! This girl is a mess. Love her, but she is stubborn just like her mother! (Raina) Love her rear.
Don't think that escutcheon can get any higher.

 

[CntryBoy777]

What a time to have such a reaction to new hay....hope they get over it and recoup fairly quickly....they still look Awesome!! Hope ya can get some new hay shortly from a known source....

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Beautiful! That stinks about your milktest.

Trudy’s eustachion is ridiculously high! I can’t wait to see her udder!

 

[Southern by choice]

Beautiful! That stinks about your milktest.

Trudy’s eustachion is ridiculously high! I can’t wait to see her udder!

Oh, the saga of the milktest... So far 3 tests and horrid each one! The first was having to shift times and adjust the girls. we were milking at 10/10 we had to move it to 7:30/7:30. They sleep in in the mornings so that didn't go well. Next test is when GW was in Indiana and we had to use the machine for 3 1/2 days. That made everyone tank because it doesn't get all the milk out and the girls don't let down as well. As soon as they got back we had test, there was no time to bounce back production. To show you the difference- Ruby milks out an additional 2# by hand stripping after the machine. We have just now started using the machine more in hopes that they will let all the milk down. Third test, bad hay! So not only were we bringing up goats with diarrhea all over them but no milk to boot. It didn't affect everyone as bad but because we had to get the hay out and there was NO hay they foraged all day and we had pm test.

DH said maybe we should just come off test this year because of how bad it's been but I told him no because we aren't in it just for stars, but for data. The data has been really good. Identifying fat protein inversion on a couple of goats. I requested MUN levels but they weren't on the last paperwork.

It is what it is.

As far as escutcheons... I know right! I know it is hard to see in the pic but Dancing Queens is just as beautiful. Although Queen will probably have the better udder. I like her teats better. Trudy has a lil milk. Their dam is Raina. She is 2YO FF milking 10# (test) but really milking over 11 almost 12 some days. She puts it all in the pail though so it is hard to get weight on her.
I like certain things about Queen and certain things about Trudy. Now, if I could just take the things I like from both girls I'd have the perfect goat!
Raina's udder is obscene.

Here is another pic of Queen- you can see how high it is because the color doesn't throw it as much.

Now that @Wehner Homestead has Cece and we are watching her grow... we are definitely repeating that breeding. Black Tie Affair is the sire for most of the kids this year. He is beast.
The Candlelight Lines are high and tight! So blessed to have these genetics. I just hope we don't ruin all the hard work of the breeder! That is the scary thing for me. 40 years of work I don't want to ruin. She (breeder) knows this too, she is always encouraging to me and GW.

I want more height but don't want to scarfice the old style lamancha. I Like Lamancha's to look like Lamancha. Seems that dairy goats are losing their individual breed characteristics. If you crop the head out of the pictures nowadays you can't tell what breed it is. Except Nigerians. Cuz they're short!

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Here is another pic of Queen- you can see how high it is because the color doesn't throw it as much.
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You’re right, the color did throw off the height of Queen’s eustachion. With that rump and her udder potential...

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Wow! Looking good!!

 

[Southern by choice]

Just venting- what is wrong with people today?

So someone was just really excited about Nationals coming up and was posting pics of fresh clipped goats that they were taking and some knucklehead made reference of posting pics and trying to influence the judges.
Seriously.
The person posting has a tragic and amazing story and it was so good to see them posting, yet now they have stopped because some dolt just had to be negative.
I really don't think judges are scouting out FB to be influenced. Good grief.

Then this... ok we all do have things that make us flinch... like nanny instead of doe or billy instead of buck... I get it but some people are just obnoxious.
Heaven forbid someone say Nigie instead of Nigerian.... Munchie instead of Lamancha... Pyr instead of Great Pyrenees... Toli instead of Anatolian or Anatolian Shepherd Dog
Really folks? Just SMH.

Rant over...

Keep it happy!

 

[CntryBoy777]

One of my favorite sayings over the yrs has been....Engage brain, before starting tongue.....it is a shame that it is so foreign to many in today's "world".....

 

[Southern by choice]

One of my favorite sayings over the yrs has been....Engage brain, before starting tongue.....it is a shame that it is so foreign to many in today's "world".....

I certainly have let things roll off the tongue when I shouldn't have. Answered gruffly, all those kinds of things... at one time or another. Probably more times than I'd like to know. I just hope I encourage more than not. Something so irrelevant shouldn't turn into the nasties. Too old for such silliness.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well, if one is unwilling to learn and accept another's "terminology", then they are unwilling to teach another....share or educate....while they, themselves "learn" proper "terminology" does not preclude one's ability to tend to healthy animals or their level of care and concern. I have always seen ya "bridging the gap" and have always admired ya for that, too. I, by far, am not a proper "terminology" person, but we have had some really good discussions on various talks....I'm still learning....but, progress is a bit slow......