The kids are taking market goats, and then they take 3 does each for Breeder's herd. And they are taking a pack goat! Some of the nicer doelings are going in the Breeder's Herd also, and they need to be on Boer Goat Developer anyway. I am running out of pens to separate them in, and have 3 bucklings that can no longer be in with the doelings. And the DOES want to be out on the pasture, thought I'd wait til they dry up more....
Starting this time of year, things get really hectic, but it's fair time and the kids absolutely LOVE taking their animals to fair.
The show heifers drive me crazy, and get in the way, eat a lot and take up way too much room. And I am a little scared of them.
Yep, same here. I have more land that needs fenced but only me here, my son in law comes every chance he gets and works his butt off. 2 large pasture areas that are partly fenced would help a lot. I would like to put the wethers in one area, the the doelings in another, and the does in their own with pasture. The 3 young bucklings, would like to find a new home ASAP!20kidsonhill said:For us the hardest part isn't knowing what or how to feed the individual animals to get them ready for the fair, but it is finding enough room for all of them and separating them all out so each one is being properly fed. We seem to always run out of pens and fields. Last year my kids that were born in June, looked awful, because I ran out of room and couldn't get them on creep feed soon enough, after the fair(August 15) I was able to work with them more, but I was worried there was too much damage done to them, and I took them into the stockyards after I got a few more lbs on them instead of selling them for breeding stock.
I the bright side, this year I don't have to deal with a heifer. Husband said next year we will have one again.
LOL!
And thank goodness I talked Ricci out of a heifer, he wanted to put it in my front yard to eat the grass!
I said what about the huge cowpies??? and NO! Talked him into a goat.....for now. 
