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Baby fainting goats 2011 thread

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awesome. you have become a bonafide goat monger. Do you make cheeses with the goat milk? I love me some goat-based cheeses.
 
I was installing a window in the garage (remodeling project) and needed the step ladder. Walked around the house & could hear all sorts of noise coming from the barn. Loud baby. Walked in just in time to see the 2nd one plop on the floor. 2 more babies, a boy and a girl. (buckling and a doeling.)
 
zinfamous said:
b/c goat is tasty?

IIRC, it's the most-consumed meat in the world.

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Well, yeah, I know that. But, these are pet goats, pedigrees, that kind of stuff. I suppose someone could raise one for meat, if they wanted to. It's going to be awfully expensive meat though. Several hundred dollars for an 8 week old baby. Some of ours are worth far more than that. I'm picking up the son of the national grand champion in a couple of weeks. Somewhat expensive, plus about a 24 hour round trip driving.
 
DrPizza said:
Well, yeah, I know that. But, these are pet goats, pedigrees, that kind of stuff. I suppose someone could raise one for meat, if they wanted to. It's going to be awfully expensive meat though. Several hundred dollars for an 8 week old baby. Some of ours are worth far more than that. I'm picking up the son of the national grand champion in a couple of weeks. Somewhat expensive, plus about a 24 hour round trip driving.
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So are the goats just for pets?
Do you go to shows with them?
Do they have goat shows?
Do you milk them at all?
 
Kreon said:
So are the goats just for pets?
Do you go to shows with them?
Do they have goat shows?
Do you milk them at all?
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Primarily, yes. We raise them as pets, we sell them as pets. We keep a handful of the best offspring each year to improve our herd.

Yes, we go to shows. We have the Reading Fainting Goat Show (Reading as in Pennsylvania, not as in genius goats) & the Keystone State Myotonic Goat show; both in a couple of weeks. In April, we have a couple of shows in Tennessee to go to. (And a goat to pick up from Tennessee.) And, in June, I believe we're going to another show in Indiana. Thus, yes, they have goat shows. We've taken a couple of reserve grand champions. Hoping for a grand champion in a couple weeks.

No, at least not very often. Once, we had a mother get mastitis on one side; we had to milk her a few times a day to keep her loosened up & soft. Otherwise, we prefer to leave the kids with their mothers. I'm not a big fan of bottle feeding goats, although from time to time, we end up with goats in the house who have to be bottle fed. Once the babies have left their mother's side, I prefer to let them keep their weight up, replenish their minerals, rather than continue milking them.
 
DrPizza said:
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OMGsiamesegoats
 
Newest two goats, less than 5 minutes old. They were on their feet in about 5 minutes, and momma had them cleaned off and dry in about 15 minutes.
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do you have some moms that are just terrible mothers and some that are basically foster mothers?

when I was working with purpose-bred mouse colonies for a transgenics lab a few years back, we had a separate population (different, well-known strain) of older moms that we kept cycling with "false matings" (set them up with snipped males) in case some of the pregnant mothers (within whom we implanted our very expensive transgenic or chimeric embryos) were horrible mothers. (scatter the pups, ignore them in the cage, never lay on them. not care to feed them, etc)


I imagine this is the case with almost all animals, no? Some goat moms would just ignore some kids, or scatter them about from time to time?
 
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