Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[frustratedearthmother]

OH my goodness! He's breeding a 300lb buck to Nigerians?

 

[NH homesteader]

Kinda scared me too

 

[misfitmorgan]

OH my goodness! He's breeding a 300lb buck to Nigerians?

Kinda scared me too

Don't worry he is actually a gentle breeding buck and does fine breeding small goats. He bred all of our mini's more then once and our nigerians when we had them. i was working on mini-alpines and on continuing breeding my mini lamancha's(when we still had a nigerian buck) but i found out quickly there is no market for it here and my hands cant take milking the tiny teats. i only worked on mini's on the side of my full size goats for roughly 2yrs after that every goat we had was bred by Ruger. No problems with in-breeding because the only females he ever produced were from the mini's and all the males were sold for 4-h or pets.

 

[NH homesteader]

Haha I was more concerned about little goats kidding gigantic babies.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Haha I was more concerned about little goats kidding gigantic babies.

Nope they kid tiny babies...and they are the cutest things ever. First time i saw our nigerian have pure nigie babies(when we first got her) i couldnt believe they were alive and real. The cross kids are way closer to mini or nigie size then standard size, even full grown our one mini mancha/alpine cross doe was only approx 30lbs and maybe 16inches tall.

 

[TAH]

We had friends that had a Boer buck brake into there ND pen and breed one of the females, 5 months later she had a 9 pound doling. They had to put her down during the delivery. It was pretty sad, she was a very good looking do and had been there first goat in there herd under there name to be a finished champion.

 

[misfitmorgan]

These are F1 Nigerian X Alpine babies at approx a week old. Mom is Lucy and in the pic, dad was Ruger.

This was some of our nigerian herd...the really fluffy thing on the right middle is a pygmy wether. The far back right is the nigie x alpine from the first pic at 7-8 months old

This is DH holding that same goat

This was our nigie buck

The white goat in front is the mini mancha x alpine i was talking about..see how big the chickens look! that is her full grown.

This is a set of mini mancha X alpine triplets...that is Lucy's leg in the picture and 2 of 3 had ears.

 

[misfitmorgan]

We had friends that had a Boer buck brake into there ND pen and breed one of the females, 5 months later she had a 9 pound doling. They had to put her down during the delivery. It was pretty sad, she was a very good looking do and had been there first goat in there herd under there name to be a finished champion.

A boer buck i would be worried about, they make very stocky and thick bodied kids compared to alpines.. alpines are wirey and long legged usually.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I AI'ed Eva for the first time yesterday, she wasnt to sure but took it pretty well. We will be giving her dose number two today. I decided to go with a Landrace Boar and this is the boy we used. http://shaffergoldrush.com/boar_detail.php?boar=185

The next breeding for Sarah will be this guy http://shaffergoldrush.com/boar_detail.php?boar=256

Then i wanna get some hereford semen.

 

[Bruce]

What ARE you doing back there Mom???