So.....which buck? Oberhasli or LaMancha? Milk production stats?

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Darn, now it seems that I might just buy a buckling. There are just no available bucks here that won't cost me an arm and a leg by the time I have a vet check done (probably at least $150-200 here, could be more) and hire someone to haul the doe (I just have a car, no buck-y doe is getting in it!) and pay the fee. Might as well just buy a lactating doe by the time I'm done! Ahh, suburbia! So they have a couple of LaMancha bucklings from great milking lines available for $100 each. I am thinking of keeping one until the doe is bred, then selling for my purchase price. So 3-4 months of food. The buck (-ling?) is now four months old.

Waddaya think? I know he will stink. Can't be helped. I don't know what else to do. I ran into this last year and ended up buying a bred doe. Can't do that every year!

 

[Goatfarmer]

Darn, now it seems that I might just buy a buckling. There are just no available bucks here that won't cost me an arm and a leg by the time I have a vet check done (probably at least $150-200 here, could be more) and hire someone to haul the doe (I just have a car, no buck-y doe is getting in it!) and pay the fee. Might as well just buy a lactating doe by the time I'm done! Ahh, suburbia! So they have a couple of LaMancha bucklings from great milking lines available for $100 each. I am thinking of keeping one until the doe is bred, then selling for my purchase price. So 3-4 months of food. The buck (-ling?) is now four months old.

Waddaya think? I know he will stink. Can't be helped. I don't know what else to do. I ran into this last year and ended up buying a bred doe. Can't do that every year!

Not such a bad idea.Ive heard of lots of people doing that, especially with pure bred bucks, because they say the purebreds dont live as long as the crosses. May even make a lil money that way. Good luck!!

 

[lupinfarm]

I think that is a great plan... I found out the hard way that they *will* pee in your car ... Although, freakishly, Hermiones pee didn't get on the car seat :S

 

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You should've seen the reaction I got at traffic lights in the city I had to go through when I brought my little Ginger Peach home at five weeks old. I put a piece of plywood so she couldn't jump into the front seat, put every conceivable and absorbant rug, blanket, towel, etc I could come up with on the back seat, and covered it all with two layers of tarp. She never pee'd. She had fun looking out the windows, though!

 

[Roll farms]

Penny, my black Ob doe...rode home in the back of my jeep w/ a Depends on.
Seriously. Taped on, so it wouldn't slide down.
Won't work on lactating does or bucks, but great for does / doelings....jes sayin' for future reference.
It was a 2 hr trip and we got a LOT of looks.

 

[lupinfarm]

Hahaha...

Unfortunately I don't have much space in the back of the truck (just a supercab) so the girls had to be locked in a crate the whole way home. It was easier to get them into their pen when we got home anyway.

 

[freemotion]

Ha! Depends! There are some at the discount store across the street....what size for a full-grown goat????

The only reason Ginger rode loose in the back seat instead of in a crate is that I went to buy a lactating doe (didn't bring the crate) and came home with a baby instead! Responding to my heart and not my head again! The doe had an extra teat, and the doeling was perfect, and I'd just lost a buckling after a long, hard struggle....Never go shopping when you are hungry... But I love my little Ginger Peach, she is a major sweetie-pie!

 

[lupinfarm]

We have a bunch of crates, the one I used would probably have fit a labrador retriever a bit snugly It just fit wedged between my front and back seats haha. Oh yeah, and it's one of those wire crates not the plastic ones although the plastic ones are even better.

Before we got this crate, a standard poodle lived in it though!

 

[freemotion]

I have two "large" plastic airline crates, I have transported a pygmy in one, but a full-size goat would never fit. Maybe extra-extra-large?

 

[Laney]

We use our Minivan with the back seats stripped out. Then we put down every imaginable absorbant thing that we are willing to throw out, with cardboard under it.

We are lucky in that our only Buck, Frederick isn't very "bucky". He doesn't pee on himself, so you only get that natural musky smell...it's still potent when he is in rut. And of course he is still disgusting in other Bucky ways when the girls are in heat....but it wasn't intolerable being in the Van with them.

OH...we also bring sweet feed or treats with us...and thrown them into the back if they start acting uppity.... I think after the third time they start acting uppity on purpose!!!!!I think my daughter actually hit Frederick in the head with some sweet grain!!!!!

Laney