WhiteMountainsRanch Kidding/Journal Thread; Summer Update

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Wow time flies when your having fun! (And even when your not!)

Ghiselle my last goatie to have babies of this year, is due in only 12 more days!

Her udder is definitely getting bigger and I think she has twins, her belly is the biggest I've ever seen it. (Not as big as Minyette was though! )

Also, this might be weird, call it woman's intuition or whatever you want, but somehow I KNEW after she was bred that she was pregnant, I mean immediately. I tried three different times and she wasn't settling. But after the last time, after the last breeding when I was putting her in the truck, she just looked at me and laid down. She is normally pretty fidgety, but she just sat there calmly and looked at me and I KNEW that she was preggo.

I can't wait to see what she has! I'm hoping for twins!!!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

ALSO one of the sheepies I got is pregnant and will be having babies too! Two of the mammas already had theirs. One had twins one was a single, and now this one left.


I love spring. Puppies, baby goaties, lambies, baby chicks, baby bunnies.... does it get any better? NOPE!

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

OH I am with you Nothing better than spring. NEW LIFE! and babies...

Just wish it would come and stay where i live I waited this yr and bred my girls later, so no new babie till June..

( at least i kept a girl in milk so we are goid there)

I guess i made the best call on that since it has been wet and cold, COLD no time for little ones when it is like this here.

So i have to lve thur you guys on BYH and all your lovely babies

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

OH I am with you Nothing better than spring. NEW LIFE! and babies...

Just wish it would come and stay where i live I waited this yr and bred my girls later, so no new babie till June..

( at least i kept a girl in milk so we are goid there)

I guess i made the best call on that since it has been wet and cold, COLD no time for little ones when it is like this here.

So I have to live thru you guys on BYH and all your lovely babies

My family moved to Western Washington a few years ago, I am just about the only one left in Cali. My parents keep trying to get me to move up there. They are a couple hours north of Spokane.... beautiful from the pics I've seen... Whereabouts are you that it's still cold and snowy?

 

[Mossy Stone Farm]

Yes i am on the soggy side... North of Seattle..... Where we rust and mold After a few ruff yrs i went to breeding the girls for later babies when thing should be dyer.
I try and keep at least one girl in milk thur the winter.... I can't be with out milk

The East side of the state where your family is is much warmer and dyer, but cold in the winter...

I love your Pictures

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Ahh that would make sense.


Thank you! I'm glad ya'll are enjoying my pictures! I need to get out and get some more, maybe tomorrow. I have a cold now so I want to wait until I feel a little better. I need to get pics of the new sheepies, the baby lambies, the baby goats (they are getting so big!) and finally the pup! (Who is growing fast too!)

 

[Heirloom]

Hope you get to feeling better soon! And can't wait to see more babies!!!

Lambs???? *off in a hurry to find a thread......*

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

This one?

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25457

 

[perchie.girl]

I posted the following on your other list not realizing the last post there was in Feb:

For feed suppelements etc: Check with Double S feed in Blossom Valley. I believe they carry sheep specific products and if they don't they WILL get you what ever you want. They do alot of 4H stuff. As long as you know the product they have a fellow that sits in the back and orders everything. Hes been in the feed business close to thirty years.

I am heading up there to get a load of Bermuda there today.

WRT handling animals that are afraid or fearful It would be useful to build a squeeze panel. The interesting part about restraining animals this way is once they have pressure on their sides they tend to relax and "give in". There are studies done on this If you want I can dig up an article..... Also it helps if the panels are padded some and block their view of whats going on around them.

Once you get their hooves trimmed. If you can build them a climbing ramp/structure then cover it with anti skid paint the kind with grit in it that will help them wear their hooves down. I know that works for goats.

I dont have sheep yet but My prep for stepping into a project is to dig in to the Mechanical parts of housing and fencing. Thats Why I havent jumped in yet because my fences Barely keep in my goats.

deb "Who reads A LOT sometimes too much"

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I posted the following on your other list not realizing the last post there was in Feb:

For feed suppelements etc: Check with Double S feed in Blossom Valley. I believe they carry sheep specific products and if they don't they WILL get you what ever you want. They do alot of 4H stuff. As long as you know the product they have a fellow that sits in the back and orders everything. Hes been in the feed business close to thirty years.

I am heading up there to get a load of Bermuda there today.

WRT handling animals that are afraid or fearful It would be useful to build a squeeze panel. The interesting part about restraining animals this way is once they have pressure on their sides they tend to relax and "give in". There are studies done on this If you want I can dig up an article..... Also it helps if the panels are padded some and block their view of whats going on around them.

Once you get their hooves trimmed. If you can build them a climbing ramp/structure then cover it with anti skid paint the kind with grit in it that will help them wear their hooves down. I know that works for goats.

I dont have sheep yet but My prep for stepping into a project is to dig in to the Mechanical parts of housing and fencing. Thats Why I havent jumped in yet because my fences Barely keep in my goats.

deb "Who reads A LOT sometimes too much"

LoL, Deb, your signature is hilarious! If you only knew how it was here.... if I let the babies out I have all six babies following me everywhere all over the yard, climbing on stuff, "helping" me work on stuff, and then if I let the big goats out, oh dear... I have ELEVEN helping goats.