Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

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just because they like to complicate your life, a doe can be in heat a few hours to two or three days. i try to breed morning and evening as long as the doe will stand. the buck will lie to you about who is in heat because they think everyone should be in heat all the time but the doe will stand when she is ready. now having said all that you also have does who will stand for one buck but will run from another buck. i think they just try to make us nuts.
 

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Well the weather sure has a way of throwing a wrench into the plans. For the last week, the news has been talking about snow coming today/tomorrow but not much to worry about.....yeah right, we are now under a winter storm warning with a possibility of 4-7 inches! Needless to say DH and DS(13) are not going deer hunting, DH will most likely be doing snow removal tomorrow. DD and I tried to tell him they should go and we could do the removal but he wont hear of it. Maybe they can go on our neighbors land Sunday.

The last buck( 7 months) we had for sale, went to his new home this afternoon- he will be joining 2 does and 1 wether at his new place. So we are down to 9 goats going into winter. Of course we now have to watch the does and see if they are all bred.

DD turns 16 tomorrow, so she is having a few friends over and then tomorrow will be watching a movie.

Best head back out to help finish getting equipment ready!
 

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Hope you and yours survive the storm. Snowing lightly here right now, but won't amount to much, a couple inches at most. I always loved going whitetail deer hunting during (light) snowstorms or slightly afterwards, also during cloudy wet weather. Seemed the deer were always up and moving more. Hope they get a chance to go and are successful! Happy B-Day to the DD :D =D
 

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we ended up with 4.1 " of snow, with a wet/sloppy layer underneath. DH figures that 3" probably melted before it was cold enough to start sticking.

Most of the goats looked at the snow like it was aliens coming to get them!

DH and DS(10) worked on moving the spools yesterday....will have to up load a picture later.
 

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Here is the picture of the spool set up- the goats are now starting to climb on it!
Spool set up-11-24-2015.jpg
 

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