77Herford Farm Zoo Journal Moving

[daisychick]

Wow! Lots of new critters coming to your 2 farms! SO jealous. Sounds like plenty of babies will be coming in the near future, you will have your hands full.

 

[77Herford]

Well update from Farm 2 as I'm calling the Family Farm. My old friend has called, emailed and personally talked to all sorts of Goat people and the farm will soon be bustling with close to 100 Kiko does and another 100 Kiko/Boer does. We already had 5 Kiko bucks and 50 Boer Does.

I guess we'll get three Boer bucks above the age of four. The Kiko bucks won't be wasted and will do their job for a few years at least before we incorporate more Boer bucks as replacements, such as Dinner and Abel.

You will need those bucks to make replacement does. Can I ask where you are getting the does? There are not many farms that have that many available at once.

Well I don't like to give away my exact location but I will give you one of the sites my friend found helpful. Mind you my friend did the hunting.
http://www.kikogoats.com/midwest.htm

 

[77Herford]

Yes, we found it difficult to find large scale Kiko farms. From what I hear it was more of buy two here, five there type of thing. Most of the Kiko's aren't fullblooded as they call it. Many are percentage, its all a little confusing for me as some are also commercial, lol. I'm guessing Kiko's aren't prolific like Boer's.
Well the rich family seemed to take my check ripping as some challenge to buy me off, lol, and sent me a bigger check. I'm sorry but I took this one as I'm not and idiot and the wife said if I tore this one up I was a dead man. It wasn't an outragious sum of money.

Some sick sheep and recieving anti-botics, just the sniffles. We seperated all the mothers and are giving them extra minerals and food. Lambs are pretty cute. We have only four ewes of the group the rest are rams and eventually lamb chops. The first ewe I showed you gals with the triplets were ALL EWES so were keeping her around. That ewe is doing fine with here babes and producing a good supply of milk.

Allison one of the high schoolers has fallen head over heals for the lambs, (girls and baby animals). Her friend Chantrel isn't much into the farm thing, lol. She huffs every time we give her a task. Shawn the Football player likes the cows more and asks all sorts of questions. He also likes the work out, which he mentioned to his coach as he's working muscles he didn't know he had, lol.
I told him, wait until you pull muscles you've never pulled before, .
Lets see last but not Mitch the quiet one of the group, he pretty much doesn't complain or talk much but is always on time and does he's stuff without complaints.

 

[elevan]

There's a lot of kiko breeders in the midwest. For some reason I didn't expect to see that many :/

 

[77Herford]

Ok, I could be going crazy but I'm wanting more and more different breeds of livestock on the farm. I suppose if I sell the offspring and make the money back its not hoarding, also to make sure my land can handle said animals. As a kid I did dream of having a Zoo and a Farm zoo with every kind of livestock animal and their breeds, lol. Its kinda scary but I think I could have the money for this but everyone may think I'm crazy, lol.
I'm pretty sure Staven thinks I'm nuts, lol.

 

[marlowmanor]

I say if you have the money, time, and space to go for it. May as well live the dream while you are young!

 

[77Herford]

I say if you have the money, time, and space to go for it. May as well live the dream while you are young!

Yay, someone to fuel my addiction.

 

[marlowmanor]

If DH would let me I'd do it myself. I'd have the animals I want on the acreage I want and be totally happy. My kids would have something else to do besides drive me nuts. I'd have them out there helping with some of the chores (simple stuff obviously) and I'd enjoy myself.

 

[Ms. Research]

I don't think you're crazy wanting your "Livestock" Zoo. Heck, if I said you were crazy, I be that too. That's exactly what I want with my "Livestock Adventure" but on a smaller scale. Know my limitations.

Don't worry what others think.

 

[77Herford]

I want a Gascon some day they look like great cattle. Might try some wabbits, lol. I do like Rabbit but I prefer deer.
I do like my Belties they are like huge teddy bears and like bears they can kill you, lol. They are a friendly bunch of ladies who on the first day weren't to nerves with me checking them out with hooves.