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I recommend that you check the cost of repair parts on the piece before you buy it. We had a piece of older equipment break down last year during hay season and the nearest replacement part available was in Germany. Shipping parts to California from Germany is very expensive... if you were...

Contact you local Ag Extension Office. They will know what will grow well in your area as pasture.

That sounds like you did exactly what you should do. Keep them off the road and call and leave a message. If one of my horses were to get out of their stalls and go for a walk-about I would hope that someone would put them back up were they would be safe. Although they would have to go on a bit...

Go for conformation and production and dont worry about color. Thats my personal opinion. All too often I find that when people worry about color they are not paying enough attention to other factors and conformation and/or production suffer. A good goat can be any color but a spotted color...

With babies it really is hard to tell, particularly such a young kid. Unless they have a major fault its hard to tell what they will turn out to look like at that point. He looks like he has the potential to be a nice buck. He has good ears and he is very cute! :D

How old is he?

You might be a horse person if... you find this funny or are pretty sure a trainer has had these thought about your horse at some point. I actually got this off of one of my trainers facebook.

My family used to have a ranch that we used for part of our beef herd. It had several large stock ponds that were used for watering the cattle, as well as one was used to hydro power the ranch. All of these ponds were stocked with fish and had been for some time. On average 50-75 head were...

I find that baking soda works well for removing buck stink.

Nice rear udder shot! I would be happy to see that walking into my ring :thumbsup

Two years is far to long for a doe to stay in lactation. I have never actually seen a doe stay in milk that long. I am sure it has been done I just havent seen it, not even on the dairies I know. I have seen cattle go that long, we have even had them on our dairy. Its only with cattle that get...

We had lots of black kids this year too but no solid black ones again. It was a different buck too. Lots of black and blonde :woot

Thank you. She was all of our favorite out of that age group this year. Given her dam and sire I think that the farm might luck out! :fl

The weather here is terrible so I cant do much around the farm today so for fun I thought I would post a few more pictures of some of the goats :celebrate. Hope to see more of everyone elses goats too! My three year old Toggenberg doe Jasmine. Topaz one of the February kids from this year...

LOL I am afraid that you might have a little ways to travel to get her we are up here in Oregon. Honestly I was a little surprised that she and Dante didnt go missing at any shows this year they got alot of attention :gig. She will be shown as a dry yearling next year then freshened as two...

Try Mike Gilbert of Red Stag Acres perhaps he could help you. His farm raises them for venison but I have heard thathe does sell breeding stock. He is located in Wisconsin and is very helpful, perhaps if that is to far to travel he might know someone near you. We have talked wiht him extensively...

Here are a few pictures of the Nubian 2010 kids out and about playing in the spring. Senior (February) kids out playing. Junior (April) kids peeking out of their barn. Junior doe kid. "Dante" my favorite of the junior buck kids. He had escaped and was following me around this...

I have to agree with this. Aim for a British breed (Angus, Hereford, Shorthorn) they are on average the most effiecent at converting forage to pounds of gain. The Contiental breeds will need grain to finish effectivly. Also I would go for those black baldy calves, one they are black and two you...

Contact your extension office or land grant university agricultural program. They will know far more than your local 4-H club most likely. The variables that you are talking about will require a knowledge not only of cattle but also of forage production. As others have expressed your forage...

Well they have spots so if that is all you care about then i guess they are good. As far as being show animals they look average at best. They need to get better pictures of their animals up, these really arent doing anything for them. This is what I am seeing though. 1) Several of the goats...