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Goat kidding season ends, final count 41 kids

DrPizza

DrPizza

Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
4/21/09 Goat kidding season has ended, final count: 41, but a couple died - smothered by moms laying on them. (Same mom who did it last year to one of her kids.)

Now, cria season has begun. (Cria = baby llama)
Born just this afternoon:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/drpizza/cria1.JPG
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/drpizza/criawithmom.JPG



3-16-09
The wife took a video with our digital camera... not the greatest video of all time, a little shaky, but lots of cuteness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMmE25DFbIM


3-2-09
4 more babies born today - two sets of twins. And, FINALLY, one set was two doelings. ($$$). That'll make keeping 2 or 3 of the new does more feasible. Unfortunately, their mother rejected them; she didn't want anything to do with them. She was a bottle baby & seemed freaked out by the experience. So, we now have two bottle babies living in the house, running around, wearing diapers.
diapers.JPG
(The floor is a little dirty - major construction project going on in the kitchen)

3-1-09 More triplets born tonight. I've lost track - we have somewhere around 30 new babies so far born in Feb & today.
Uploaded some more pictures:
earned the name Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes) from this photo. Smile nice!
caption this one
snuggled together
sleeping under the heat lamps
sleeping upder the heat lamps
gathering near the heat lamps
cute
the nubians
kinda cute.jpg
enjoying the sunshine
the turkeys
Ginger's doeling
Dusty's buckling.jpg
enjoying the outdoors.jpg

It's getting hard to keep track of who goes with who.


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Happy Valentine's Day! Triplets! 🙂
From front to back: Sammy, Sabastian, Stanley (their mother is Sandy)
triplets

Also, I got 5 new turkeys a week or so ago. I now have a breeding pairs of royal palms, Narragansetts, and black Spanish. turkeys

And, the REAL reason for my receding hairline... That's Daisy, a little more than a month old now.



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When we went into the barn, we were greeted by two new voices:
here

The lighter colored one is a girl, (now unofficially named Daisy) the other with the white stripe on his back like a saddle is a boy. (Now unofficially named Duke) Their mother's name is Delight.

2 down... 48ish to go.


edit: thought I'd toss in pictures of the whole birthing process. Same mother, but her kidding from last year. I might have posted these last year; I'm not sure. The wife just put it on our website for all the newer breeders who haven't gone through this.
http://www.slatebrookfarm.com/uncomplicatedbirth07.html
 
Yes, we sell them. She might be naturally polled (hornless); we'll know in a few days. If so, she'll sell for $400. We average $200 for males; more if they're high quality (good conformation, etc.), less if we wether them (make it so he can't reproduce.)

The killer is that we wrote the date down that she may have been bred, but that was only because somehow she wound up in the male's area. We don't know who the father is (are), so we're probably going to have to DNA test them.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The killer is that we wrote the date down that she may have been bred, but that was only because somehow she wound up in the male's area. We don't know who the father is (are), so we're probably going to have to DNA test them.
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I never realized that paternity was important, I never knew goats had to pay kid support.
 
Originally posted by: Bignate603
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The killer is that we wrote the date down that she may have been bred, but that was only because somehow she wound up in the male's area. We don't know who the father is (are), so we're probably going to have to DNA test them.
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I never realized that paternity was important, I never knew goats had to pay kid support.
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We can trace our goats back for several generations. They're all registered. Plus, if we keep the female, we'll want to know who we can and can't breed her to. (i.e. her father or other male relative.) People don't want to purchase goats that are more than about 8% inbred.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Bignate603
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The killer is that we wrote the date down that she may have been bred, but that was only because somehow she wound up in the male's area. We don't know who the father is (are), so we're probably going to have to DNA test them.
Click to expand...

I never realized that paternity was important, I never knew goats had to pay kid support.
Click to expand...

We can trace our goats back for several generations. They're all registered. Plus, if we keep the female, we'll want to know who we can and can't breed her to. (i.e. her father or other male relative.) People don't want to purchase goats that are more than about 8% inbred.
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how far have you shipped these goats to?
 
Originally posted by: Bignate603
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The killer is that we wrote the date down that she may have been bred, but that was only because somehow she wound up in the male's area. We don't know who the father is (are), so we're probably going to have to DNA test them.
Click to expand...

I never realized that paternity was important, I never knew goats had to pay kid support.
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KID support? hahahha get it?
 
You still thinking about some goat cheese? I looooove goat cheese, particularly if it's aged.

Cute kids. Baby goats are hilarious to watch.
 
Originally posted by: Flammable
how far have you shipped these goats to?
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8 or 9 hours away. They're scattered around NY, Ohio, New Hampshire, Long Island (yeah, I know it's part of NY), Pennsylvania, and West Virginia I think. We've served as the middle man for shipments of goats from Virginia to Maine, and we've gone as far as Oklahoma to pick up goats.
 
Originally posted by: Descartes
You still thinking about some goat cheese? I looooove goat cheese, particularly if it's aged.

Cute kids. Baby goats are hilarious to watch.
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Yes, we have just about everything for cheese. All we'd need now are the cultures. And, we'd have to milk by hand. We might consider a mechanical pumper later this spring.

Besides cheese, we'll make ice cream, goat's milk fudge, and soap. It's supposed to be much higher in butterfat than cows milk, so those things should be a lot better.

incidentally, calling it "goat cheese" is about the same as grouping all the other cheeses together as "cow cheese." There's an overwhelming number of varieties of cheeses made with goat's milk.
 
cute kids. are they already standing on momma's back or some pigs or something? do the fainting goats like to climb as any other goat?

:beer:
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Descartes
You still thinking about some goat cheese? I looooove goat cheese, particularly if it's aged.

Cute kids. Baby goats are hilarious to watch.
Click to expand...

Yes, we have just about everything for cheese. All we'd need now are the cultures. And, we'd have to milk by hand. We might consider a mechanical pumper later this spring.

Besides cheese, we'll make ice cream, goat's milk fudge, and soap. It's supposed to be much higher in butterfat than cows milk, so those things should be a lot better.

incidentally, calling it "goat cheese" is about the same as grouping all the other cheeses together as "cow cheese." There's an overwhelming number of varieties of cheeses made with goat's milk.
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give you $5 for the male.
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous
cute kids. are they already standing on momma's back or some pigs or something? do the fainting goats like to climb as any other goat?

:beer:
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They were only about an hour old in that picture. They haven't stood on much yet. They did get to experience the blow drier, just to make sure they didn't get chilled tonight. (They're gooey and wet when born) Conveniently, it's the warmest night in quite a while. (37 degrees right now) I didn't even need a jacket tonight.

Climbing? When they're little, they run and climb all over everything, although they can't clear much more than about 24 inches. As adults, they climb a little bit; they don't go running around playing as much. They don't climb over fences like other breeds of goats do. They're much more mild mannered than most goats. We just sold a couple this weekend to people who have a large variety of goats. They've decided that the fainters are the most lovable of their different breeds.

give you $5 for the male.
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LOL
 
Originally posted by: NSFW
Does anyone know where I can get a midget cow?

Serious question.
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Search for miniature Scottish Highland. Or miniature Texas Longhorn
 
So obviously you don't want to startle them into a faint very often...

But you have done it at least once, yes?
 
Originally posted by: jagec
So obviously you don't want to startle them into a faint very often...

But you have done it at least once, yes?
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Yes, a couple times. We rarely do it on purpose, because it's pretty obvious that they don't enjoy being startled. Afterwards, they tend to avoid us for a little while. We prefer that they remain very friendly, like friendly dogs. Still, they faint quite often from other unexpected causes.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: NSFW
Does anyone know where I can get a midget cow?

Serious question.
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Search for miniature Scottish Highland. Or miniature Texas Longhorn
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Here are some miniature highlands for sale:
http://minihighlandcattlecompany.com/cattleforsale.html

And, if you're seriously looking and come across some within 3 or 400 miles of western NY for a good price, let me know 🙂
 
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