Baby Goats
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Heathen Pagan Witch
Sweet! Congratulations!
Dio
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yes thanks! We are waiting on the last Momma to give birth. Looks like 2 does and 2 bucks so far.
Samsmom
The Bees Know
Congratulations! They are good looking kids! We just finished our kidding for the spring (only 3 mamas, so it doesn't take very long). We had 1 set of triplets and 2 sets of twins born this week. Only 1 buckling, the rest are doelings.
We had to give up one of the triplets. She was born with what looked like hip and back leg deformities. She was the last one of the 3 to arrive, so we believe she just got squished by the other 2. We have a neighbor who has been begging for a bottle baby to take care of and DH and I weren't able to take care of her after the mama rejected her. She posted pics on FB. The baby is doing better and is hobbling all over her place. The legs still look deformed but seem to be getting stronger.
Here are pics of our kids.
We had to give up one of the triplets. She was born with what looked like hip and back leg deformities. She was the last one of the 3 to arrive, so we believe she just got squished by the other 2. We have a neighbor who has been begging for a bottle baby to take care of and DH and I weren't able to take care of her after the mama rejected her. She posted pics on FB. The baby is doing better and is hobbling all over her place. The legs still look deformed but seem to be getting stronger.
Here are pics of our kids.
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Shooting Star
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They are so darn cute!!
imaginative
keep your eye on the ball
Great pics- Congrats
Samsmom
The Bees Know
Isn't that the way it goes sometimes? We bred the same 3 does (all 3 does were FF last year) to the same buck as last year. Last year we got 4 bucklings and 2 doelings. This year we got 1 buck and 6 does. One of the little girls (the last one born of a set of triplets) was a runt and had a bum leg, so mama rejected her. We were very fortunate to have a neighbor who has been begging us for a bottle baby so we gave the lame one to her. Her legs are doing a lot better and she is walking all over their place.
I was going to ask you for pics, but unless all your does had triplets or more, it might take awhile to upload all the pics!!
Congratulations!
campswampy
Contributing Member
Too Sweet! Congratulations! There's nothing funnier that watching those babies bouncing around. I'm jealous!
Samsmom
The Bees Know
We had torrential rain off and on yesterday. The crazy goats were out in it. They couldn't get enough of the new green grass to stop eating and come in out of the rain. Only one mama had her kids with her, the rest were in the barn.
Yarnball, it's never to late.
Dio, those igloos are great, aren't they!
Peek-a-boo!
Yarnball, it's never to late.
Dio, those igloos are great, aren't they!
Peek-a-boo!
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Dio
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I've been a city boy ( and a pirate ) all my life. We made the jump to the country ( now I am a farmer ) just over 2 years ago. and I am in my mid 50's.
It can be done.
Samsmom, those are good looking chickens.
Samsmom
The Bees Know
Thanks, Dio. I saw one of the kids try to catch a hen the other day. She wasn't successful.
We're about on the track with you on "farming". We bought this place (40 acres) in 2002, it was being leased out as a cow pasture. It didn't have anything on it except an old dilapidated homestead. May 4 will be our 10-year anniversary when we moved into a 700 sq ft house attached to a 6-car garage that wasn't finished but we moved in anyway. A couple of years later, we sold off 20 acres and increased the house to 2400 sq ft with a partial basement. We also built a 5-stall open shed with 1 stall closed in for storage and a barn that has a milk room, feed room, chicken house, storage room for garden tools, a summer kitchen, and a loft that holds 400 sq bales of hay. We built goat sheds and chicken coops. We planted fruit trees and various berries. We tilled up a garden. We put up new fencing. DH built a front-loader from scratch for our tractor.
In addition to that, we bought another 47 acres down the road and built a cabin on it.
BTW, DH is 66 and I'll be 62 this year. It's not easy, but it can be done.
We're about on the track with you on "farming". We bought this place (40 acres) in 2002, it was being leased out as a cow pasture. It didn't have anything on it except an old dilapidated homestead. May 4 will be our 10-year anniversary when we moved into a 700 sq ft house attached to a 6-car garage that wasn't finished but we moved in anyway. A couple of years later, we sold off 20 acres and increased the house to 2400 sq ft with a partial basement. We also built a 5-stall open shed with 1 stall closed in for storage and a barn that has a milk room, feed room, chicken house, storage room for garden tools, a summer kitchen, and a loft that holds 400 sq bales of hay. We built goat sheds and chicken coops. We planted fruit trees and various berries. We tilled up a garden. We put up new fencing. DH built a front-loader from scratch for our tractor.
In addition to that, we bought another 47 acres down the road and built a cabin on it.
BTW, DH is 66 and I'll be 62 this year. It's not easy, but it can be done.
momof23goats
Deceased
I have 8 new ones today. I am about 1/3 of the way, meaning one thrid of my does have kidded so far, so i am looking probably at a ton of babies this year for sure.
I raise mini nubies, they are short but boy do they deliver in the milk department, just like the big nubies. they are great milkers.
I raise mini nubies, they are short but boy do they deliver in the milk department, just like the big nubies. they are great milkers.
