Sometimes it's goat owners that make my day.... :)

[Roll farms]

We know a retired couple who got some goats for pets / something to keep the husband occupied a couple of years ago.

I met them through TSC, they'd come in and ask questions every now and then.

This year I've been disbudding / banding the kids for them.

Yesterday we went to band 2 boys and while we're there, they're showing off a 3 day old kid, telling me how he was found out in a muddy field and so his name is "Muddy Waters".

I say it's a shame they had another boy (that makes 5 in a row) and that he's too pretty to be a boy. The kid just didn't look bucky to me.

The wife says, "I know...I was so disappointed when I saw he had wattles...all our boys have wattles."

I sorta stood there thinking to myself... "No....Surely they actually checked..."

I nonchalantly go pick the kid up and feel for his nuggets....none there...I flip HER over and...

"Hey guys...ummm....Wattles are NOT the danglies you need to be checking for....this is a DOE. Maybe call her "MUD-ina instead??"

Of course I had to tease them a bit about it, but they took it well and it was a great laugh.

So all you goat farmers remember...wattles do NOT indicate the sex of the kid.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I needed that laugh this morning. Thanks Roll.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

But but but...I thought horns, wattles, and beards all mean it's a boy! Just like "nipples" (aka teats) means it's a girl!

 

[freemotion]

Hee-hee! Will they keep her? Who on earth would dump a doeling in a field? Or maybe her mama escaped and she lost her?

ETA: Oh, wait, was she born in their field, snuck out of her mama when no one was looking, and they found her in their pasture?

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Now that's funny!!!

I've had somebody ask whey I kept so many "billy goats" at my house. I told them I only had one. They replied with, "But they all have horns!"

 

[freemotion]

I get the horns=bucks all the time, also beards=bucks. Never heard wattles=bucks.

 

[chubbydog811]

@Aggie: I have had SOOO many people ask my why I have a "male" goat in the barn with my milkers...I get really sick of explaining the the Alpine/Saanen "male" with the huge beard, is actually an older doe...In milk!!!


That is great Roll...At least you were there to tell them they had a girl though, right?

 

[helmstead]

 

[Emmetts Dairy]

Thats hysterical!!!! I would of LMAO!!!! Great post!!!

Lucky them to have all wattles!!! I love wattles on goaties!!!

 

[jodief100]

That is funny! I briefly made that mistake once. I was looking over some kikos does for sale last year and saw this huge one with a long beard. I said "that is a nice looking buck....... oh wait a sec- that's a doe"


I once had two friends over. Jennifer is a city girl who has never been on a farm. They were admiring all the babies when Jennifer exclaimed " look at the HUGE balls on that one!"

While I am frantically looking around the pen for my buck who should not be in there, I hear Denise say "Jen, that's an udder".