Our first baby... More PICS

[LookingGlass]

Question in picture #2, back right leg, looks like it has........blood on it? 😱 Or what.

 

[KarenMarie]

that is a really cute kid.

😉

 

[DrPizza]

Yes, we purposely purchased the fainting goats. We're trying to get another half dozen or so this spring. My wife wants to raise them.

This one is still lacking a name... But, I think my wife is going to want to try to stay with the Spongebob theme of naming them. (Sandy, Patrick, Gruff (doesn't fit the theme, but oh well) )

If she doesn't have a name for it, I'll probably leave it up to ATOT to come up with a good idea... I liked "Patches" for some odd reason...

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Question in picture #2, back right leg, looks like it has........blood on it? 😱 Or what.

Yeah, probably blood in that picture.

It was *JUST* born an hour before that picture was taken.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Congrats?!

 

[DrPizza]

updated with a few more pictures that my wife took tonight.

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
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We didn't even know the mother was pregnant! It was quite a surprise this morning to see a new baby out in the barn. He's a fainting goat. One eye has a patch of black over it; the opposite ear is all black. Really cute baby!


edit: My wife and I checked it out more closely... apparently our 14 year old son can't tell the difference between a girl and a boy.. 🙂 Updated with pics my wife took tonight.

I hear goat meat taste good.

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: Armitage
Meh - goats are a PITA. Mine got out of the fence while I was gone over christmas and ate off a bunch of seedlings that were finally starting to grow :|

Did you punish them. Kill them

 

[DrPizza]

supposedly... Hopefully I'll try some in the next year or so.

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
supposedly... Hopefully I'll try some in the next year or so.

So you do plan to eat the little guy.

 

[alien42]

has he fainted yet?

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: Looney
awww Lambchops!

:evil:

 

[DVK916]

I hear the meat taste better young, so don't wait to long to slice him up.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: DrPizza
supposedly... Hopefully I'll try some in the next year or so.

So you do plan to eat the little guy.

No, not him. These ones are raised as pets.
Although, I'd like to also raise another breed of goat exclusively for meat... the market is really good for them right now. (and is only going to get better)

 

[alien42]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: DrPizza
supposedly... Hopefully I'll try some in the next year or so.

So you do plan to eat the little guy.

No, not him. These ones are raised as pets.
Although, I'd like to also raise another breed of goat exclusively for meat... the market is really good for them right now. (and is only going to get better)

boer goat?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: alien42

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: DVK916

Originally posted by: DrPizza
supposedly... Hopefully I'll try some in the next year or so.

So you do plan to eat the little guy.

No, not him. These ones are raised as pets.
Although, I'd like to also raise another breed of goat exclusively for meat... the market is really good for them right now. (and is only going to get better)

boer goat?

Yes, that's one of the breeds for meat production. Goats are really easy to care for (so far), although the baby resulted in a $50 vet call (the mother had a torn vaginal wall from the birth.) But, the vet made a housecall; $50 for a housecall isn't bad at all 🙂
The rest of the routine stuff - shots, etc., we do ourselves.

 

[SampSon]

Can you eat goat?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Can you eat goat?

Apparently, more goats are consumed world-wide than cows.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: SampSon
Can you eat goat?

Apparently, more goats are consumed world-wide than cows.

That's because thoes people are poor and cows are sacred.
Though pass on over the goat chops.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Looney
awwww sooo cute! Do you name them?

Yes. Our youngest son named him Checkers. He says with the one black ear and the one black eye being on the opposite sides it looks like a checker board. I guess I can see where he would think that.