Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

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Isn't it funny how in August the "upper 90's" can be super nice ? :lol: Might be in the 80's here by next week but we all know it won't stay for long; Sept. can be miserable. I need a few more months of nice weather to put a front on the barn so I'm ok with 80's until the end of Oct. Of course DH comes home sick for the weekend. :he Not his fault but just bad timing.

My big boer buck was never friendly. He would run away and fortunately not try to attack but when you did catch him you had to tie him to something as his way of escaping was usually by just running us over, not around us, just over us. The breeder said she didn't like friendly bucks. :th

So who are you breeding to the BB?
 

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I felt he was too young to count on breeding the big girls that I need to kid sooner, but I plan on using him over Bellini and Cosmo (AKA Sister), and maybe Rocky and Baileys kid Ghost Ryder in a few months. She is huge so I should be able to breed her sooner if I can fathom having hot weather babies next year. At this point, I do plan on using him on almost everyone next fall though. I plan on keeping a kid or 2 out of him and Cherry and probably out of a few others too. Then I will probably breed those kids back to Rocky.

Poor Andy doesn't get much work now that we have registered boys and since he is related to most of my girls. I requested listing papers and DNA on Andy and I am seriously considering offering him for stud to tested, clean does, and just not using him on my herd at all. He already lives along since my big boys need their own apartments anyways.
 

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Gotta say those two are built like tanks. BB more so than Rocky, but he's a pretty big fella too. They ought to produce some exceptional kids.
 

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I am so happy with the kids that Flash gave me. Just thought I would share a picture of one of the mini Alpine bucklings I am keeping; meet Hot Shot. This guy will breed all my minis except his sister and I have an equally nice buckling to cover her. I have 5 mini doelings that I kept, and maybe a 6th one. I wrote down that her dam was bred to my Alpine last year but she sure looks mini to me. I need to get her DNA tested but I will breed her mini just in case she is.
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I am so happy with the kids that Flash gave me. Just thought I would share a picture of one of the mini Alpine bucklings I am keeping; meet Hot Shot. This guy will breed all my minis except his sister and I have an equally nice buckling to cover her. I have 5 mini doelings that I kept, and maybe a 6th one. I wrote down that her dam was bred to my Alpine last year but she sure looks mini to me. I need to get her DNA tested but I will breed her mini just in case she is. View attachment 21152

He turned out realllll nice!!!!!!!!!
BTW your pens came out great!
 

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That is an impressive kid!

I am so glad you wanted FraGiLe too. I wanted to keep all 4 of Reeses kids this time around.:thFor the record, I was good. I only kept 2. I can't wait to see how these kids turn out and how our udders and milk come around too.
 

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I love our nubian. She has the mellowest temperament, she is the most compliant, beautiful :D =D and easy to milk. By the way, I need another one. (Not to encourage another goat addict, but have you seen Tamris farms nubian goats???? :love I could swoon just over the pics of her goats!!! (But then the price tags bring me back like a splash of cold water! :D =D)

Of course the nigerians are much easier to handle than the boers!!!...... by several hundred lbs! If the nigis don't want to go somewhere, I just pick em up or give a good shove.... Boers....not so much! I love having the boers not in with the dairy goats. Makes life so much easier.
 

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I have a friend that raises Boers...(she hated Bailey BTW) and she would like to know what you feed your Boers; yours always look amazing.
 

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I am afraid I feed my boers like giant dairy goats most of the time.

I feed mainly alfalfa hay, the highest quality I can find (barring the really fine stems)even though I know lower quality is fine for goats. Fine stems will make my boers bloat really fast so if I'm cornered with no other options, I will give heavily soda laced grain with smaller hay rations for that meal or 2. I like to feed grain to the boers as they need the extra calories and balanced nutrition (I just don't feed much). The 2 other boer goat people I spoke with, one being the breeder we got Beautiful Beast from, feed mainly a 16 percent grain with less hay and their herds look great. I use the sweetlix meat maker minerals and I have to do Bose and Copper 3-4 times a year for almost all my goats. This year we had several goats kid with the softest babies and I had the least amount of "emergency" Bose injections for kids/the herd as nearly all were born with nice strong legs and not as deficient as in the past. Also several of our dairy goats have maintained softer better quality coats this year. I am trying to b more generous with the grain as I think the extra vitamins, nutrition and protein in the grain has a lot to do with it.

Why didn't your friend like Bailey???:idunno I love her! Bailey is really one of the friendliest of all of our boers. Ravi would qualify as friendly, but she acts like the spoiled farmers kid and the term "brat " seems more fitting most of the time (since she was a bottle baby, I have no idea why that would be!!!:gig ) Cherry is the sweetest and most compliant of the boers but I do love me some Bailey!
 
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