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I cant wait to watch you and Roll farms kidding threads. But it will make me miss my goats. Kidding was such a fun time for me.
2013 Kids on HIll Kidding Aunt B is in the kidding pen, April 7th.
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Well, I would let you come and help and take some night shifts, but it is a bit of a drive. Maybe you can help Roll out some evenings or weekends on your free time.RPC said:
I understand about missing it. I would be bummed if I had to sell ours. We talked about selling out a couple years ago.
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looks like it will be a long kidding thread for me. 
I have does due first week of January, 3 rd week of January, and I am breeding right now, so the end of March. And who knows maybe one or two in between that. We talked about pulling the bucks out from the does so their is no one kidding later than the middle of April. I hate ending up with an open doe, but kidding and nursing in the summer is always a disaster. The kids never do as well and it is hard on the mom's.
Yesterday,
Goldman Bred Cloe( a first timer born in February) and Glory(she just happens to be Cloe's dam). Not sure why, but Glory had a small bloody discharge about 5 weeks into her gestation and now she is rebreeding a week later.
Just Wow is also a first timer and a February doeling and she also was just bred by Goldman.
We are breeding 4 first timers that were born in Februray of this year.
And there is another first timer that was born in FEbruary of 2011. That is Fuzzball. She was purchased from a farm in OHio, but she was stunted and we have spent a lot of time getting her to grow, she still isn't very big. But she will be 2 years by the time she kids for the first time. I rarely kid them out for the first time that late, but she was very badly stunted. She was my special project. kleeping my fingers crossed on this project. She is suppose to be the star of our show, so to speak.
I have a couple more that either bred recently with out me noticing. We don't have a marking harness on Goldman. Or they aren't bred yet.
I have does due first week of January, 3 rd week of January, and I am breeding right now, so the end of March. And who knows maybe one or two in between that. We talked about pulling the bucks out from the does so their is no one kidding later than the middle of April. I hate ending up with an open doe, but kidding and nursing in the summer is always a disaster. The kids never do as well and it is hard on the mom's.Yesterday,
Goldman Bred Cloe( a first timer born in February) and Glory(she just happens to be Cloe's dam). Not sure why, but Glory had a small bloody discharge about 5 weeks into her gestation and now she is rebreeding a week later. Just Wow is also a first timer and a February doeling and she also was just bred by Goldman.
We are breeding 4 first timers that were born in Februray of this year.
And there is another first timer that was born in FEbruary of 2011. That is Fuzzball. She was purchased from a farm in OHio, but she was stunted and we have spent a lot of time getting her to grow, she still isn't very big. But she will be 2 years by the time she kids for the first time. I rarely kid them out for the first time that late, but she was very badly stunted. She was my special project. kleeping my fingers crossed on this project. She is suppose to be the star of our show, so to speak.
I have a couple more that either bred recently with out me noticing. We don't have a marking harness on Goldman. Or they aren't bred yet.
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HiCochinBrahmaLover=) said:
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I'm excited about this thread! 
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Nothing new going on, goats are looking good.
We have a mystery on the farm though.
Aunt B is an older doe I purchased a couple years ago. I knew she had a bad udder, but I wanted to try and get a keeper doe out of her to add to our farm. Little B is out of her. Any way, because of her bad udder we bottle feed her kids and to make it easier on me I wait to breed her so she will kid in march or April, so it isn't so cold out for bottle feeding. She is kept with the young keeper doelings, because she is dehorned and very very timid, anyway, she was in noticable standing heat on September 5th and spent two days backed up to the fence with Goldman to the one side of her and Twister on the other side and only cattle panel in between them. Kind of see where I might be going with this? Well, I have not seen her come into heat again. Goldman has been put in with her and a few others on 10/13, but no sign of her coming into heat. Grant it, I could have missed it. But I check on them several times a day. Any way, I wasn't surprised I missed it, but what is surprising she looks to be about 2 1/2 months pregnant, which would put her being bred around the end of August. I am wondering if she was bred through the fence on Sept 5th. Time will tell. Even her udder looks to be slightly starting to fill out. She gets a very big udder and it does start to show signs fairly early, based on my experience with her the last two times she kidded on our farm.
Puts her kidding first week of February. Who knows, time will tell.
I will post some pictures of her, her belly is geyting quite filled out.
And get a few pictures of some of the does that are starting to look bigger. Pictures are always fun.
We have a mystery on the farm though.
Aunt B is an older doe I purchased a couple years ago. I knew she had a bad udder, but I wanted to try and get a keeper doe out of her to add to our farm. Little B is out of her. Any way, because of her bad udder we bottle feed her kids and to make it easier on me I wait to breed her so she will kid in march or April, so it isn't so cold out for bottle feeding. She is kept with the young keeper doelings, because she is dehorned and very very timid, anyway, she was in noticable standing heat on September 5th and spent two days backed up to the fence with Goldman to the one side of her and Twister on the other side and only cattle panel in between them. Kind of see where I might be going with this? Well, I have not seen her come into heat again. Goldman has been put in with her and a few others on 10/13, but no sign of her coming into heat. Grant it, I could have missed it. But I check on them several times a day. Any way, I wasn't surprised I missed it, but what is surprising she looks to be about 2 1/2 months pregnant, which would put her being bred around the end of August. I am wondering if she was bred through the fence on Sept 5th. Time will tell. Even her udder looks to be slightly starting to fill out. She gets a very big udder and it does start to show signs fairly early, based on my experience with her the last two times she kidded on our farm.
Puts her kidding first week of February. Who knows, time will tell.
I will post some pictures of her, her belly is geyting quite filled out.
And get a few pictures of some of the does that are starting to look bigger. Pictures are always fun.
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question, since the goat world is rather new to me wouldn't the "bad udder" be passed down to her offspring? I know when I first started looking at goats I most definitely checked the momma does udder and teats. I also prefer to look at the sires mother if she is available. Of course mine are dairy, I don't know if it has the same significance factor in meat goats.
Just gleaning from where I can.
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Just gleaning from where I can.
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If I were to guess the bad udder in this case is coming from damage instead of genetics.
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We are hoping the bad udder is from mismanagement, We really don't know her history, I didn't even bother asking the seller, who had only owned her for a couple years, I am her 3rd owner. The price was right and I was willing to take a chance on the bloodline. I have one daughter from her that kidded one time, so far and her udder was fantastic, but I realize it will take 2 or 3 kiddings to see any genetic issues, such as thin walls that will lead to blown out teats.BrownSheep said:
We are letting people know that we are raising her as a wether maker and her doelings could have udder issues, but we don't think they will. We think Aunt B had a really bad mastitis infection from being poorly managed.
As far as dairy vs. meat. I wouldn't expect a 6 year old doe to have an udder so blown out that it is no longer functioning, I would consider that a cull factor and I would consider it genetic and terminate the entire bloodline.
Thanks for asking.
