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[Hens and Roos]

I think the EZ tat would be a nightmare. I have the old fashioned metal one, takes 3/8" digits, made by Stone. I think that if you are going to show your goats they need to be bigger than 1/4", even bigger ones the judges often have a hard time seeing and if you win they DO check and they have to be legible.

Good to know, I know we had a hard time seeing the tattoo's on our older does ears- one has dark insides too!

 

[babsbag]

Often the judge will put a flashlight behind the goats ears and the light shines through the ear to help see the tattoo. Not so easy on La Manchas and tail webs. I have yet to tattoo one of those.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Yeah, the ez tat looks like it would be a bit of a pain to use on goats.

This is what we got-
http://www.jefferspet.com/products/small-tattoo-set
We got it with the ear release. We haven't had any problems with it but we have only done a few kids. We are going to get another set or two and we will probably upgrade to a stone. Not sure yet.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Fair starts this week for DD, DS and DS- they are almost finished with putting projects together....they have foods judging tomorrow afternoon and then Tuesday afternoon all other projects including animals go in....some projects are judged right away and animal judging starts Wed.

This year will be interesting- DH has to report for jury duty tomorrow to see if he is picked not sure the kids and I can get the turkeys and goats to the fair without his help.....guess we'll see!

Only Chaos and Cosmos are going to the fair- decided that having 2 does in milk there might be a little difficult as it takes 4 of us to milk Obie . We also hope this will help wean those 2 completely!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I bet y'all have been busy! Waiting to hear how it went!

I hope the kids (human) are having fun!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Just got home...lots going on....will post more when I get a few extra minutes...going to bed morning will come to early!

tomorrow starts animal judging- Poultry; Thursday- rabbits and Sat- goats....only Obie's 2 doelings went and they are putting Chatty Cathy to shame

 

[Hens and Roos]

Quick question- we need to get the bottle kids out of our house into more space but we have been having warm/humid weather and we have our A/C running so what is the best way to transition them safely?

 

[norseofcourse]

Quick question- we need to get the bottle kids out of our house into more space but we have been having warm/humid weather and we have our A/C running so what is the best way to transition them safely?

I don't have any experience with this, but my first thought was could you put them somewhere that you could safely have a fan on them? Hope someone else chimes in soon.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Maybe suffer a little bit and raise temp in the house gradually over a couple of days
Other than that I have no clue

 

[Bonnie Jo]

I love the fair!!! I showed goats when I was a little girl!!!