One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

goatgurl said:

@OneFineAcre you are such a trouble maker! i have wanted to get a ND doe or two for years and keep talking myself out of it and i do fine until you post pictures. you really have nice animals and i have to talk really sternly to myself after I've looked at them. nice babies!

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Oh go ahead and get a couple
What's a couple more, right ?
Plus they are little bitty things

see, you are a trouble maker! two little bitty does, then a little bitty buck, then little bitty babies. thats why i have so many lamanchas. goat math 1+1=14

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goatgurl said:

see, you are a trouble maker! two little bitty does, then a little bitty buck, then little bitty babies. thats why i have so many lamanchas. goat math 1+1=14

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this sounds like us....just have 1 goat kid 6..., and the 2 doelings are such cuddle bugs!!

I have a new hay source
As all of you know a good hay source is critical of you are going to raise livestock
I have always been fortunate in that I have a great supplier
I don't have to buy up for the winter in that my hay guy stores it for me
But the last couple of years have shown it never hurts to have a backup
Just found mine
Some people who bought goats from us told us about this guy they got alfalfa from very close by
So I called him about getting a few bales
So I go over and he had a trailer of square bales of alfalfa in a big building full of round bales of grass hay
So I asked what kind it was and he said Tiffany Teff
It is a summer annual grass and part of his business is raising sod grass for landscaping
His fields are irrigated so he plants the teff grass in rotation with the sod
It's very fast growing and with the irrigation he can plant after he cuts the sod and with the irrigation still get at least 3 cuttings, most likely 4.
He had 450 5x5 round bales
So I bought a bale and the goats love it
I did some research and it is considered to be a good quality hay marketed for horses and comparable to Timothy

That's great!!

Bucks are in full rut now
Even though Nigies are year round breeders they have more intense heat cycles on the fall and they have started that as well
Starting to plan breedings now
Not breeding anyone yet just making note of heats at this point
Going to start breeding soon though
All does are late in lactation
We have two shows left NC Mtn State Fair next weekend and NC State Fair late Oct

I have 15 days of vacation to take before the end of the year
So having a 5 day Labor Day weekend
Clipping goats for Mtn State Fair next weekend
Got 5 done today