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Last night we picked two out of five doelings to add to our herd. I ended up with two more black and white doelings. There isn’t much white on either but one has very little. So much for adding color! Lol

Registered names are pending and the girls won’t be home until the end of June but we will be excited to have them here.

DH and I made it a date night, our first in more than 6 months! It was enjoyable but seemed odd to not have the kids with us. They were disappointed that we just picked out the girls and didn’t bring them home yet.

Introducing Summer and Leah! (Leah is a bottle baby so she’s much harder to get pics of as she climbs in your lap constantly!)

Leah: She is also heavy Caprine Acres lines. More on that later.

Summer: She is sired by Honey Locust Farm Mudslide so her paternal grandsire is Zanzabeez Polar Vortex and her paternal granddam is Buttin’Heads Spanish Rhapsody.

 

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Yesterday was a big day on the farm. (I really wanted to post this last night too but it didn’t work out with getting late and trouble uploading pics.) I was on call so we had a chance to work on a project. Went to get feed and visit a friend in another town this morning.

In the afternoon we built a temporary fence to let the Does out. DH isn’t sure where he wants the perimeter yet and someone gave him this woven wire fencing so we made use of it and some t posts we already had.

DH plans to add two hot wires- one along the middle to keep the goats from pushing on the fencing and one over the top to make the fence taller. For now the goats are only out when supervised.

It’s not perfect but it gets them outside for now and allows us to get an idea of our future goal.

I had also promised pics on the kidding thread but since they were in the new pen, I’ll post here.

Sparkle and CeCe “helped.” They enjoy their walkabout time and it was perfect for them to get sunshine, attention, exercise, and munch on some browse. Their pics were an afterthought and they were too busy to pose. Maybe better pics another day with their new collars. We are working on leading now. DD1 picked purple for Sparkle and pink for CeCe.
CeCe

Sparkle (going to DD1)

Here’s the pen. It’s a bit odd shaped. Gates are lined with pieces of paneling. There is an outside gate so that I can get in the pen if I need to. It’s made from a piece of goat panel. Currently we can just slide one of the big barn doors open wide enough for them to come and go, allowing us to close them in whenever we want.

Pics of the goats enjoying the new space. It was wonderful to see them knee deep in grass and eating the dried leaves.

Diamond stayed out the longest. She even let me walk up and pet her out in the open. They do in the barn but you never know what they’ll do when they have more space. Jasmine is in front of Diamond.

Caramel-L, Nellie-front, Diamond-back

L to R: Diamond, Snowflake, Caramel

L to R: Diamond, Snowflake, Caramel.

More pics coming...

 

[Southern by choice]

I bet all the goats are loving it!
Those udders look like they are holding some milk!

I think Sparkle thinks she's a dog.

Where do you get your goat panels from? We can never find those panels here. Just cattle panels.

 

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New Outside Space Cont’d...

The goats now have several toys. I’m hoping that the babies get comfortable enough to entertain the kids and show them how cute they can be! There’s an old tractor tire, a stack of boards that are screwed together, a concrete block, and when we can get ramps built and the holes covered on top, an electrical spool. The babies did like climbing on the bottom part of the spool last night.

Perdy and Ella.

Beauty peeking around the other side.

All three of Nell’s girls: L to R: Perdy, Beauty, Ella

Caramel and Snowflake coming around the corner from the barn. (The gate was left in place per DH’s wishes so I drove a t post to attach it to so that it was in place.)

DD2 checking out L: Perdy and R: Beauty

Beauty was one of the more daring kids.

Snowflake-L, Diamond-center, Theo-R

Caramel-L, Jasmine-center, Snowflake-R with Diamond behind her.

Beauty climbed on DH.

Theo. Love his colors!

Cont’d...pic overload lol

 

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Cont’d...

Nellie. Love this doe!

Jasmine-L, Diamond-back, Beauty-front, Ella peeking in from R

Beauty-L, Diamond-center, Jasmine-R, Oscar -front

Diamond trying out the concrete block.

 

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I bet all the goats are loving it!
Those udders look like they are holding some milk!

I think Sparkle thinks she's a dog.

Where do you get your goat panels from? We can never find those panels here. Just cattle panels.

We get them from Tractor Supply. They have them in stock. More expensive than cattle panels but worth every penny when we had horned goats! Now I like them because the tiny babies can’t get out after they grow a bit.

 

[goats&moregoats]

Beautiful goats! I really wanted Nigerians again, but these goats have definitely got themselves into my heart. I want to get some opinions about mixing Nigerians with bigger breeds. As in the pasture not breeding.

 

[Southern by choice]

Beautiful goats! I really wanted Nigerians again, but these goats have definitely got themselves into my heart. I want to get some opinions about mixing Nigerians with bigger breeds. As in the pasture not breeding.

We have Nigerians, Lamanchas, Nubians, Mini Lamanchas... no problem. Nigerians can definitely hold their own. I have Nigies that bully the big girls. And big girls that bully as well. Mostly there is always a pecking order no matter what. Timid goats will always get bossed around, no matter what breed.
Our herd Queen is a polled Nigerian. She never bosses anyone but watches out for the whole herd and will take anything on if necessary.
Some goats should be an "only child".

Thanks W. They don't carry these at my TSC. They are pricey but I would love to have about 10 of these bad boys!

 

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@Southern by choice , thank you so much for answering that. So far Ginger and Sage seem quite gentle and very interested in the babies that are penned right in the middle of their pasture.

 

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@Southern by choice , thank you so much for answering that. So far Ginger and Sage seem quite gentle and very interested in the babies that are penned right in the middle of their pasture.