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I hate posting this, but this is Saffron's dirty little secret: a very tilted chest floor. She is also standing down hill and scrunching up, which makes it look worse. Her edema is totally down now, I think.
 

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She doesn’t look tilted to me.
She looks like she’s “slouching”. If she was holding her head alert I think it’d be level.
Is she taller at her hips than her withers?

A tilted chest floor would be “tilted” in the opposite direction.
 

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I'll check in the hips vs withers, but I don't think so. She does arch her back a lot though. When she's feeling really good and calm she relaxes and walks around with it straight and she looks divine. I'm not sure what the deal is with that.
 

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I don't think she's tilted :)

Looks like a sweet doe! You really should get her done NOA. Our first lamancha was unregistered, her whole rear end is a complete train wreck!!! But we use good bucks over her and her daughters are wonderful! I had initially underestimated RG's, but as we went further and further into goats we realized how valuable they are to our farm. We actually took that ol' train wreck our of retirement this year and bred her in hopes for a 2020 doeling!
 

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15 hay bales can fit into a minivan. If passenger seat is used the number is 16. Bought 21 more bales of hay. I feel secure enough now.

There's a place 5 minutes from me that sells hay for $10/bale for just grass hay. My hay guy charges less but is 15 minutes away in Littleton and the backup guy is 25 minutes away in Leominster. But if I had to, I could have more in an emergency with a short car ride, so I'm double set.
 

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