Latestarter's 2019 kidding

Lisianthus... wow. Do you call her Lisi for short? Maybe I should have gotten goats with ears... naming them by their ear tag # would make for so much less confusion, thought, memory & hassles! But I experienced Lamanchas first and they are so special... quiet, friendly, and great milk. When I list the 2 wethers I have right now for sale, if they don't sell, they will be going to my freezer. They are 10-11 months old right now and in peak shape. I still have a lot of lamb meat in the freezer from Mike. I really need to start working through that as well. Any new bucklings will also be listed for sale.

Latestarter has a "theme" to the names, food and drink.

beautiful babies LS. as they say, "the best laid plans of mice and men often go asunder." i'm so tickled that you got the goat palace finished before all this started and you have a place for them out of the weather. great job btw.
and @RollingAcres and @Wehner Homestead youall stop picking on latestarter about his goat names. at least they are original don't ya think. and I know the previous owner of dippin' dot, who named her after a girl she used to work with named dottie and the fact that the goat has a wide white band around her brown body with a big brown dot in the middle of her side, and bang, aka shebang is actually 'the whole shebang' because she is just that. april, well it was toward the end of kidding season and she was born in, you guessed it, april. and @Wehner Homestead I kinda agree with you on the bucks name, but find it amusing and rj fits just fine.
anxious to see the rest of the babies as they arrive.

Of all the babies last year, the prettiest and my "favorites" are from April; Champ, and Bang; Beauty.

LS, yep- I call her Lis for short. Still doesn’t fit in with the other goats!

I also forgot, we had a Red Lamancha doe. Guess what we called her? Red Doe of course. Some of our meat goats would go by their tattoo. C3 was changed to C3PO though

I have to say, I kinda laughed at RJ’s name.
You mean you don’t introduce him to everyone as Royal Jewels?!

No but RJ introduces himself to the girls with his full name

Have to thank @Devonviolet & her DH for there generosity. Took a drive over there today and borrowed their disbudding box and burner. The nubs on the new little boy are already becoming prominent. I expect I'll get him done this weekend. The 2 little girls will need to be done but they're barely there yet. Probably get them later next week.

The 2 little girls are happy to stay in their stall. The little boy I found out gallivanting around the pasture with the adults when I went to do evening feeding. Can already tell he's gonna be a handful. He's getting disbudded tomorrow... If I wait longer, he'll be too fast for me to catch him

Beauty has bagged up very well and I noticed a l noticed a little discharge. She's wandering around talking to her self and appears to be trying to nest. I'd guess 24-48 hours and there'll be more kids on the ground.

Bruce said:

I think if people insist on naming @Latestarter's goat kids, they should send some money for maintenance of "their" animals

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I'd love to let you name & feed mine.

And....I do have a sweet doe, great milker, mom & so polite...her name is "Brat". Yeah, as a kid she was one and it stuck. She's outgrown it but, it is her name. It's what she responds to and I'd not change it.

Latestarter said:

Have to thank @Devonviolet & her DH for there generosity. Took a drive over there today and borrowed their disbudding box and burner. The nubs on the new little boy are already becoming prominent.

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Always happy to share with a fellow homesteader!!! Besides, it is a good excuse to be able to see Latestarter. And last year, LS was kind enough to disbud our girls. He did a great job, and we didn’t have any problems with scurs, like we did when I did Angelica.

Her horns grew and fell off, grew and fell off. It’s been a while and they haven’t grown back. So, I’m hoping they stay that way.