Exciting Breeding Lineups

Southern by choice said:

@Green Acres Farm The above are tentative.
We are really blessed and have several bucks right now to choose from.

I know line breeding really helps you lock in good stuff but I am still very canine oriented and I like distance
We won't be breeding all the does this year. It will mean way too many kids. I have several bucks we need to place as it is.
Plus if we do test it will be far too many does to have in milk.
This year we just need to pick and choose.
Mariah will be bred but we are not sure to which buck.
Millie will probably sit out this year
Trouble we aren't breeding- she will stay in milk forever so not breeding her.
We need to breed the yearlings- Charlotte, Raina, & Tiff
Jane may sit out- she kidded in June.

No idea what will be happening with the Nigies.

The minis-
Bingo X Henry

Emmy and Saffy will be bred to JJ

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Have you thought about LA?

Green Acres Farm said:

Have you thought about LA?

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We will eventually do LA.
It is expensive. We have a large herd.
It all adds up.
Testing annually for CAE, Johnes & CL now adding TB/Brucellosis which by law the vet does which adds up.
G6S/dna testing too.
Add show fees.
Registration fees.
Then we are going to do milk test.

It is another expense and we really have to weigh the value of it.
Average goat we sell is $350.
We are also in a very concentrated area with goats and great goats at that- many have "known" farm names.

LA's are great but they aren't the be all end all.

Two goats one with a lower LA the other a high LA but the lower LA is hardy, not fru fru, hard working, parasite resistant etc - that is of way more value to me than a few extra points.

With our Nigerians we have a lot of repeat breedings that I hope give up repeats of last year- just more girls since we had a LOT of boys. And always, I'm hoping for a girl from our Nigerian Herd matriarch, Orchid who has given all boys in 4 kiddings of twins, triplets, and quads. (With three different bucks no less).

Our Lamanchas I'm excited to see how Cinder (Here Be Goats Cinder Ash) freshens. She's from a farm that has one of the ADGA spotlight sale does this year- and a new line for us. We had 6girls/2boys with our Lamanchas so hoping our buck repeats that ratio again.

I think I'm more excited to see udder improvement on the 2nd fresheners and udders of the FFs than anything. Next year we will freshen the first Lamancha doelings out of our buck- so that will be exciting for sure!

Well we may scratch those earlier plans.

Surprise coming soon!

Fullhousefarm said:

Our Lamanchas I'm excited to see how Cinder (Here Be Goats Cinder Ash) freshens. She's from a farm that has one of the ADGA spotlight sale does this year- and a new line for us. We had 6girls/8boys with our Lamanchas so hoping our buck repeats that ratio again.

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They have nice goats. I can't wait to see how your doe freshens.

Southern by choice said:

Well we may scratch those earlier plans.

Surprise coming soon!

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Can't wait to hear!

There's so many good breedings! I can't wait to see all of the adorable kids and lambs this spring.

For us, we're hoping to be able to use our bucklings born this spring. They're both Nigerians, named Easter and Teddy. Easter was born here and Teddy was purchased. Teddy is a registered Nigerian Dwarf who I'm hoping to use for registered Mini Nubians. And eventually, registered Nigerians.
This year, we will just be breeding a ton of Nigerians.
Easter knows what he's doing and Teddy still couldn't care less. Teddy is six months, Easter is five. They'll be about seven and eight months old when I use them for breeding, which I'm not particularly thrilled about, but I don't really want to pay $200 for breeding. And other people breed young bucks.

Anyway, I know two of the breedings.
Easter x Winona. Both were born on our farm, from two does who absolutely despise each other. Nona is the herd queen's daughter but her mother has horribly tiny teats, but always has triplets. Easter's mom had huge teats and produced a ton of milk, but has singles. I'm hoping they'll balance each other out. Or I'll create an absolutely horrific goat.

Teddy x Fairy. Since Fairy is Easter's mother.

And then I have two other does. Daphne (Winona's mother) and Pixie, who just so happens to be my favorite wether's full sister, so I really want kids from her. But I don't know what bucks to pair them with.