One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

I suggested that we take Pepper even though she is a FF.
We don't know who is going to be at the show, but there is this one particular breeder who is kind of in that area.
They bought this really big $$$ buck and his first daughters are FF now. I mean really $$$. We are hoping they are at this show. Curious as to how our girl will do against them if they are there.

You know your girls will do great!
I'm surprised you aren't going to the show in Winston Salem. It's 4 rings and no out of state HC.
$ on bucks IMO isn't a factor. It all boils down to what meshes together. But you already know that .
I wish Totality and Eclipse were bred and fresh. We are really excited to see their udder's. Totality is the one where the judge said "that doe is going to have a perfect udder". Eclipse IMO is the better goat though. We will see, if we ever get them bred.

Hope you have a great show! Are you taking your Toggs?

Southern by choice said:

You know your girls will do great!
I'm surprised you aren't going to the show in Winston Salem. It's 4 rings and no out of state HC.
$ on bucks IMO isn't a factor. It all boils down to what meshes together. But you already know that .
I wish Totality and Eclipse were bred and fresh. We are really excited to see their udder's. Totality is the one where the judge said "that doe is going to have a perfect udder". Eclipse IMO is the better goat though. We will see, if we ever get them bred.

Hope you have a great show! Are you taking your Toggs?

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I don't think we are taking Toggs.
Depending on how this show goes and how Rocky Mount goes, we may go to either WS or Shelby.
It also depends on what happens with Maurine work wise. She started the new job with Nash County extension service managing the farmers market, but then got a call for a job she had applied for when she was looking. International Marketing Specialist with the NC Department of Agriculture. The job with Nash County is not full time. She's pretty excited about the job with the state. It does require some international travel, which she's excited about. Me not so much. She is one of 2 candidates at this point, so I guess it's 50/50.

You know we have an Eclipse too. She had twin bucklings. We've had a couple people asking about them.
I think they are Zamia fans. We were really hoping for a girl.
We aren't planning to really try to sell any bucklings. If someone wants one we can talk, but they will all be fixed at 10 weeks old.

I just thought about something that I don't think I told you guys. There was a conversation on another forum about conformation. One person commented about does having a wide rump and not having kidding problems.
Shea had triplets and the first one was rump first with back legs tucked underneath. She pushed it out by herself before we realized how the kid was positioned.

Really excited for Maurine! I saw the video from FB at her latest event. She really seems in her element and she seems like she loves what she is doing. I think it is fantastic.
We aren't taking many goats to any of the shows, just a few. Spring shows are very expensive.
Funny you mention the butt first. Peanut had butt first, I decided to just let her push, there was no need really to turn or pull legs out. She did fine with it.
Leah had 3 of the 5 kids butt first. They came so fast it was plop plop plop.
Wide rumps are great but I do think kid size makes difference.
Raina was a different story. Standard Lamancha and tangled kids, yeah I pulled the back legs out.

Southern by choice said:

Really excited for Maurine! I saw the video from FB at her latest event. She really seems in her element and she seems like she loves what she is doing. I think it is fantastic.
We aren't taking many goats to any of the shows, just a few. Spring shows are very expensive.
Funny you mention the butt first. Peanut had butt first, I decided to just let her push, there was no need really to turn or pull legs out. She did fine with it.
Leah had 3 of the 5 kids butt first. They came so fast it was plop plop plop.
Wide rumps are great but I do think kid size makes difference.
Raina was a different story. Standard Lamancha and tangled kids, yeah I pulled the back legs out.

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Shea and Peanut are first cousins. Their daddys are half brothers. Peanut is first cousin to a lot of my goats, we've used Big Brown a lot.

Big Brown is probably one of my favorite bucks in your herd Vivaldi looks super awesome too, when will his daughters freshen?

OneFineAcre said:

I suggested that we take Pepper even though she is a FF.
We don't know who is going to be at the show, but there is this one particular breeder who is kind of in that area.
They bought this really big $$$ buck and his first daughters are FF now. I mean really $$$. We are hoping they are at this show. Curious as to how our girl will do against them if they are there.

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When I had a horse, when she was still a yearling, I showed her in halter classes. I went to this one show that was kinda small. Not many people showed up for it because it was raining earlier. This big name QH trainer brought his two big, muscled up, very big yearling colts there, hoping to pick up some quick halter points. My horse looked like a chihuahua showing against a rottweiller. But she was muscled nice, clipped and shiney, braided nice, show halter. She was squared up perfect. Guess who won? Meeeeeeee!!!
Mr. Big name halter dude left with his tail between his legs. Neener! Neener!
So, Im sure, if your showing your babies against someone who wants to buy his way into the spotlight instead of putting the time and effort into it you have, wont it be sweet when you win instead of them? It could happen! Good luck!

Goat Whisperer said:

Big Brown is probably one of my favorite bucks in your herd Vivaldi looks super awesome too, when will his daughters freshen?

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Vivaldi has a few daughters from last spring that are a year old now. So, it will be next year before any freshen. He sure threw a lot of daughters this year though.

So it seems Freeday didn't settle. Vet said she was pregnant on ultrasound, but she would have already kidded and she doesn't even look pregnant.
We were afraid that Kool Breeze got bred by Fortunate Son when he broke in and we were going to have unplanned mini Toggs.
But, it seems she just has a precocious udder because she would have been due with Genevieve.