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Last night Ivy jumped out brand new fence, broke the doorknob on the barn door and let the new goats, Big Boy the buck, and some pigs loose. So the new doelings may have been bred whether i wanted it or not.
I checked their butts though and I didnt see any signs of being in heat or having been bred, Big boy didnt show much interest in them either so lets hope not.

If I wait a month I would have mid april babies, if i wait two months i would have mid-may which is to late. I will look at them in a month and see what I think. That would make them 13 and 14 months at kidding/lambing.

Thanks for the advice and info guys!
 

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Explain to DH that if he had only allowed a gate, Ivy might have used that rather than jumping the fence... Hope you got everyone rounded back up without too much difficulty. Expect you did as you didn't say otherwise.
 

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Explain to DH that if he had only allowed a gate, Ivy might have used that rather than jumping the fence... Hope you got everyone rounded back up without too much difficulty. Expect you did as you didn't say otherwise.

Yes we did it wasnt to difficult....we used shell corn :D

Only problem is the pen we had big boy in is pretty much destroyed so thats a problem.
 

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The strapping big sheep on the far left is Oreo. The all white sheep to her right is her mother.
 

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I decided to throw Oreo back in with the herd, kinda literally because of the no gate issue. She is actually bigger then her mom so I think she is good to go on being bred right now.

Fate and the new does will wait until mid-November be reevaluated.

So add Oreo the the lambing list.

Sweetie, Polypay, 308, 310, Oreo, and hopefully 294.

294 is the only ewe left from her group, she is actually 2yrs old but never had a lamb. Her group was/is not at all parasite tolerant, she came with 2 other ewes we bought and we are not at all pleased with the quality or parasite problems. We are hoping to bred in more resistance from our rams since they are very tolerant of parasites. She is holding her weight well atm though her fleece is in horrible condition so i dont know if she will give us any lambs this spring or not. She was doing so poor this summer that she lived in the barn for almost 2 months on full feed and a high calorie supplement while she had all the worming treatments. We didnt think she would make it as she was about 40lbs underweight at that point but she did. Down side of all that wool, we didnt see there was a major problem with her until it was almost to late.
 

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