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

[Goat Whisperer]

CarolinaGirl was in heat today.
Pretty bummed about it. Guess she'll be missing all the spring shows.
Not a happy person.

I also had someone on the west coast wanting a kid from her.
IF she takes this time she'll be be due in June.
Don't know how this would affect shipping the potential kid.

Going to pull blood on my other ND's to make sure they took.

 

[babsbag]

Shipping might be tough in June. You could always drive her out here.

 

[Bruce]

Should be clean legged?

One leg looks clean. I was wondering if there was just a loose feather hanging that made it look like it had feathers on the other leg.

 

[Southern by choice]

CarolinaGirl was in heat today.
Pretty bummed about it. Guess she'll be missing all the spring shows.
Not a happy person.

I also had someone on the west coast wanting a kid from her.
IF she takes this time she'll be be due in June.
Don't know how this would affect shipping the potential kid.

Going to pull blood on my other ND's to make sure they took.

Try not to be too discouraged.
As far as shipping, you aren't going to ship out a 4 lb kid so waiting til 8-12 weeks at weaning may be better option anyway. Lots of stress flying and layovers etc. This way all shots and prevention and fine with food/hay.

Gonna be ok. Our plans are not always what is best.

 

[Southern by choice]

GW snapped a series of pics of Zephyr and her first gen mini daughter Bingo. I just am so happy with these girls. Zephyr is our smiling goat and just such a joy! Just meeting the height standard for the Lamancha- so she isn't a big girl but boy is her personality and so is her will to milk! Her daughter being a mini has followed in her dam's ways. Both these does kidded Feb last year, both are still in milk (Bingo is 1x day now) - Zephyr shows no signs of wanting to stop milking. Zephyr is due 3/30 and Bingo 4/21. Bingo had trips on her 1st bday, trips just after her 2nd bday and looks like trips again. Zeph was bred for standards last kidding season and we retained her doeling Poppy. Poppy I am quite sure will be a great milker like her dam. We retained from Bingo as well. Both does have done great in the show ring with ADGA and MDGA. Bingo's doeling was also shown and made the CH Line up- lossing GCH to Sass (our other mini doeling) Bingo had best udder in show. They sure are special to us. Both does have qualified (unoffocial until we dry them off) *'s in production, butterfat and protein despite a horrid year with one thing after another. We learned to not schedule milktests after a 3 day show, we also learned don't use outside hay source that is toxic to your goats, we also saw how excessive rains really affected all our does. After all that though I can still say I am really proud of our babies. I really love our girls and am so blessed by these wonderful animals. Many scoff at the Miniatures but they really are mighty milkers. Amazing goats! I love how these pics show the size difference and the mini's width.She got her great body capacity and pretty udder from her momma. Not a boast post- just happy. I keep telling myself I cannot keep any does from Zephyr this year. I do plan on keeping a doe/buck from Bingo though. Bingo has been stingy with bucks. 6 kids so far and only 1 buck.
Also got a great pic of Lil Princess, she will be a FF. She is 2nd gen 50/50 She is due end of Feb. YAY!

My sweet girls!

Zephyr always has a wad of cud in her cheek. She loves to eat!

Zephyr & Bingo

Lil Princess.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Beautiful animals !

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I was mentioning to SBC the other day how I’m really happy with Zephyr (& Bingo).

Zephyr was tiny when we got her, stunted and full of parasites. It was a rough year, many were struggling so I’m NOT blaming the breeder, things happen!

It took time but she really blossomed. Zephyr has since been our hardiest Lamancha. She keeps her weight and never has issues with parasites. She has never had a metabolic issue and my absolute favorite… she will EAT whatever you put in front of her! Some of our other Lamanchas aren’t as easy. They are such finicky creatures and are so picky. One day they’ll love one food, another day they they refuse it. Not Zephyr! She will eat whatever is offered. That’s a big deal for me.

Zephyr doesn’t “do” extremes. You’ll see some does peak at really high numbers and drop down to very little (milk production), then bounce really high again. Zephyr is steady, very consistent through her lactation. I like goats who can milk through with ease. Nothing pushing her, but she’s still milking great.

 

[Southern by choice]

So I mentioned Lil Princess above-
I am excited about this breeding. Can you all tell I am getting geared up for kidding!

So. hmmm maybe I should put this in the minis kidding thread?
Nah, already started

So Lil Princess is a doe that came back to me. I sold her dam to a friend that had been waiting for goats from us. I didn't want to sell her but she'd waited a LONG time for a doe from us.

This is her Dam Princess as a baby on our farm.

This is her grown up on her new farm She was over a year here I think-

Princess is a love and guess what we have another one of her kids here too! Rose, Rose was gifted to us this year as a 2018 kid.

Princess (the doe we sold was out of our beloved Star! We lost Star to a tragic accident She is half sister to Raina)
Not a great pic she was still getting her condition back-

Sooooooooooooooooo..... I am wanting to keep those genetics in this line.

Lil Princess was sired by Percy (F-1) Percy is a buck we sold to the same friend. Percy is out of Mariah!!!!!
Rose is also sired by Percy!

Soooooooooooooooo.... Princess was bred to George! George is a Standard so the kids will be 75% Lamancha and 25% Nigerian. They will revert back to a first generation. That happens if a Standard or a Dwarf is used instead of a mini. I don't care about the generation. I just want to try and bring the quality I want into the goat.

I picked George because we decided we would sell him and wanted to see what he could do. His breeding was repeated this year.
George is out of Zephyr and Black Tie. Poppy his sister is retained. I do not see her ever leaving our farm. George went to a really nice herd. We show along side them so it will be nice to see what he does for the does they have.


So all that background to show you what I hope will be an awesome breeding! Hopefully!




Does or bucks it doesn't matter!

 

[Baymule]

I read Badger's temper tantrum to my husband and we both had a good laugh. Mine are brats, but they aren't that bad! LOL

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I was scrolling through some pics today and found this. Excuse the mess- I was just unloading feed & cleaning the feed shed. I usually will let this group out to be "freedom" goats as I like to call it

This is Holly. She’s standing a little funny (was about to hop/jump/run like kids do) but I just love her strength and depth of body.
If she were standing properly her back and rump would level out significantly.

I think she is the deepest Nigerian kid I've had. She is getting prettier and prettier as she matures. Just awesome width throughout. This was pic was taken back in November. As she matures she's showing femininity, dairyness, and is angular. Right now they look like they could have some great udders.

Of course you can't see all this in one pic, but I love this doe! Her sister, Willow, is very nice too. I look forward to getting her into the ring. I actually like Willow a little better right now, but that could change in a few months. Willow caught my eye (SBC's also) as soon as she was born. Willow actually had more capacity then Holly at first, but as they grew Holly's "Ruth genetics" kicked in and never stops eating LOL

Willow & Holly. I haven't gotten any "set up" pics of these girls. They were born so late in the season (June 2018) they didn't get as much camera attention. Spring 2019 will be exciting though!