Straw Hat Kikos

Straw Hat Kikos

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Well I think it's time for a real update. :)

Moses is doing great. Still growing good and looking huge. Oh and his hair-do isn't like what it was. It's nearly gone. He is also shedding his coat and looks crazy. ha

Caleb is good. He has been thin for quite a while but seems to be gaining back. His hurt eye is now permanently brown. He know has one brown eye and one blue eye. But he is good too.

Arianna is great. Being a great mom, raising her kids to good weights. She is shedding her coat and looks so small now compared to her HUGE winter coat.

Sis and Alana are doing fine. They are all great moms but Sis is something else. She is so good. Her kids are huge too. Alana is good. Course she's being a big jerk to the other goats. Both the kids (not hers) and the other big goats. She's "protecting" her kids.

C1 is SSOO tall. Sis (her mom) is a short Kiko but this girl is incredibly tall. Must be from Mo.

Mo Clone is HUGE HUGE. She will for sure be a keeper. She loves people to. Loves to love on and get loved on and when you go in she jumps up on you to see you. She is crazy. She also jumps thru the gate all the time and goes back thru. She only goes out when I go to care for them and she goes in when I go in and goes out when I do. I come around the corner and she's off in the woods a bit or going out to the one field but I come back with the hay or water or w/e else she runs back and jumps in. After I do my last stop (the hay) she does not jump out anymore. It's weird. She can get out anytime she wants (and does) but she only comes out when I first go out to the hay. After hay she does not leave. Weird.

C3 has the biggest horns. He horns are thick and large already. Still only out a little but she'll have larger horns. She doesn't like people a whole lot but is still good with them and like all them comes up to say hi.

C4 is still the smallest but is growing good. She really likes people to and has some pretty good horns on her. Her darker color has faded a little.

C5 and C6 are so bucks. They have such a different build and look so thick and manly. They don't much care for people though.

Cal is shedding and looks so thin.

I will get pictures soon. Not today but I will make it a point to get some soon.
 

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Now Straw....you know what this update needs? PHOTOS!!!
 

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Huge, HUge, HUGe, HUGE post with lots of pictures for ya'll.

Real fast, bucks are tagged in the right ear and does in the left.

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Mo Clone out to get a jump on things.

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Off to go back

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Back in

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Then back out

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Again

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Saying hi

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Semi-group photo

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Group photo! Arianna, Sis, Alana, Mo Clone, C1, C3, C4, C5, C6

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That's the buck

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Blue eye

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Brown eye

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No hair-do

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Didn't really have time to put captions under them. Sorry. I'm going to get no sleep as it is anyway now. ha


Oh and yeah I am creep feeding the kids. I decided I would for a few reasons. 1. I was having to find a way to keep the kids out of the mom's buckets. They were starting to kick THEM out of the feed buckets. 2. I have two bucks that may be food and it's best for me to have them the bigger the better for slaughter if they do go that route. 3. I prefer to do dam raised only but me buying, I don't care. I will take a goat that has been creep raised if it is bigger. I like larger goats and creep feed does that. But I do not raise or will not buy a goat that is PUMPED full of feed and where those goats freak out and live for food. Nope, don't want that one bit. But they do get some creep feed cuz it's impossible to keep them out of it.
 

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No wonder it took so long :lol: :p

I really like C5. He looks really nice and stocky. And I love the first picture of Callie just all stretched out! hahaha

And I know what you mean about the babies stealing the mom's food :rolleyes: I need to get my creep feeder set up. But I just need to cut one piece of wood to make it fit, but I have no idea how to use the tool I need lol so I need to wait until my mom has time to help me. But I've been hand feeding alfalfa leaves to the lambs and they go crazy over it. I haven't given them any grain yet.
 

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What a good crop of kids. Well they look good at least, I know next to nothing as to what to look for but they look healthy and happy and I suppose that counts.
I wonder though do you get problems with Cotton Mouth Snakes or Rattlers under those logs?
 

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Nah...just lots and lots and lots a copperheads! Always watching for copperheads.... so far two people have been bit.
Yep they are poisonous but not a real big deal. Rattlers are rare here and cotton mouths are farther south and east then here.

More issues with black widows and recluse spiders. GLOVES are a necessity!
 

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Southern by choice said:
Nah...just lots and lots and lots a copperheads! Always watching for copperheads.... so far two people have been bit.
Yep they are poisonous but not a real big deal. Rattlers are rare here and cotton mouths are farther south and east then here.

More issues with black widows and recluse spiders. GLOVES are a necessity!
:hide Copperheads, no fun, I would be paranoid all the time. Don't get too many Widows or Recluse spiders and that can stay that way. cringe
 
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