EggsforIHOP's kidding thread ...THE LAST BABY OF THE SEASON IS HERE!!!

[Queen Mum]

OH! And Queen Mum I thought of you a little If anyone asks Who the Baby Daddy is...well...it's our nigerian buck Edan, the only "small" goat I kept. He has blue eyes and great genes on his side...so I am REALLY hoping for a mini-nubian or mini-saanen doe to keep out of them....with BLUE eyes would be a plus...but if all I get is the girl part filled on that order I would still be pleased!

Mini Saanen would be really cute!

I'd like to see that! Want a little buckling? I have two.

 

[EggsForIHOP]

LOL - thanks but no thanks on the bucklings...we're all "bucked up" here.

I have my twin saanens, one of which will be staying on, my nubian Starmaker, my nigerian Edan, and my mostly nubian/little bit boer buck Jack....all bucks...all staying except one.

I know, I'm SO excited for little little (double little) saanens! I'm REALLY hoping for pale cream or white with blue eyes (a girl can dream!) My luck I'll get twin brown boys with brown eyes...but hey...I'll take healthy no matter what!

Just let me know when you want another boy...I bet Saanens make GREAT pack goats! Large, in charge and cool, calm AND collected! For a fellow BYHer I'd cut ya a HECK of a deal and meet you part way

 

[EggsForIHOP]

Well...we finally got the new "baby goat jail complete enough to start using. I have caved due to the rain and flooding outside on my "indefinite quarantine" on my boer doelings, Chrissy and Janet - they are now with the baby herd and things are gonna have to be fine until they are old enough for CAE/CL testing as we SERIOUSLY are running out of dry spots around here for things to go (no, really, I had 3 turkeys drown tonight in another sudden down pour that caught them off guard...it's WET here)...anyways...since the little hoof beats are keeping me up tonight here's some updated pics of everyone...

First up, Janet wood, %boer (what percent I can't recall....it was one of those long days) She was 4lbs when she came home...now she is 17lbs and still the runt compared to her half sister...but doing pretty darn well for a scouring rejected at birth runt She is 7 weeks old now.





Then we have Crisco Kidd...he and his twin are 3 weeks old now, growing like weeds, and he is already making the "sexy face" when the girls pee...look out girls...he's gonna be a heart breaker! Look closely...see that curled lip...sexy face at 3 weeks old...my how they grow! And then looking all innocent and confused 2 seconds later...what a stinker!







Chrissy Snow, the other boer doe, who is HUGE! Another rejected baby, she is 8 weeks old now and nearing 30lbs in a HURRY! She's my biggest eater, of solid foods that is...always chewing on something, hay, grass, you name it...that girl STAYS hungry! Husband says we should have named her Big Bertha! Look at that chunky monkey sticking her tongue out for the camera...and do you see taht peeping over her shoulder....



Peeping over her shoulder is ShelliRae Farm's Champagne! She's one of our newest additions...3/4 Nubian 1/4 Alpine and ALL sweetness! Just a week old, and one of twin doelings, we're hoping she turns out to be even half the milker her mother is! She's doing good though keeping up with the big kids, though you know I watch her CLOSELY out there...



There goes Jack Tripper - my tad bit boer mostly nubian buck...he NEVER holds still when he sees me with the camera...



And last but not least, peaking in the window, is our OTHER new addition, Fajita Bonita, who will NOT be fajitas, but it a 3 month old nubian doeling That I can't wait for next springs babies from! She's another chunky monkey who is gonna be a big'un! No good pics yet besides that one of her....she doesn't hold still for nothing!



We have one more baby to pick up - another nubian doe - tomorrow and besides anyone born here that is IT for this year...I swear...I think...maybe...I mean...well...we have 10 acres and only 13 goats...wait...yeah...13 after the last new baby comes tomorrow...so we have a little more room to grow for sure. But I think once Pomegranate and Penelope kid I will be all "babied out" for a while Unless a super deal on an amazing Saanen doe comes along...or 20kids or Roll Farms should so happen to bring a boer doe to Houston...you know...to visit forever I'd take a kid from their herds in a HEARTBEAT...if they were closer Just saying...

But yeah, can't sleep, had to do something semi productive....so I thought I'd share...the family is finally growing and now I need to send in all the myriads of ADGA paperwork on the ones I have papers on....oh joy...paperwork...so that's it, an update on all the kids and a few new ones...one of these days I'll get some really good pics...until then these will work right?

 

[Roll farms]

LOL - We had a Fajita, too. She was Levi's grandma, and one of our first boer does.

Your kid jail reminds me of mine.

 

[EggsForIHOP]

Your kid jail reminds me of mine.

well then I think I have officially lost it...who else turns their porch into a goat jail...other people build a freaking barn....but me...no...that would be TOO FAR and it's cheaper to convert the porch...and easier...and really it was way closer....yup...my house has gone to the goats

 

[Roll farms]

Well, now...my kid jail is in the barn....but in the winter when it's bitter cold and I can't put them in the barn yet....we might set up baby gates and put down plastic runners and turn the hallway into an indoor kid jail.

I'm not sayin' we do or anything...but...it's possible. *innocent whistling emote*

 

[EggsForIHOP]

Well, now...my kid jail is in the barn....but in the winter when it's bitter cold and I can't put them in the barn yet....we might set up baby gates and put down plastic runners and turn the hallway into an indoor kid jail.

I'm not sayin' we do or anything...but...it's possible. *innocent whistling emote*

LOL - I don't have a barn OR a hallway! really...this place is just 3 sheds they connected together and paneled in wood...it's nice...but the kitchen REALLY IS A BARN! Or it was supposed to be...at one point...I'll have to get a pic sometime...

So does that mean it's okay if my house is always full of baby farm critters?

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

Well, now...my kid jail is in the barn....but in the winter when it's bitter cold and I can't put them in the barn yet....we might set up baby gates and put down plastic runners and turn the hallway into an indoor kid jail.

I'm not sayin' we do or anything...but...it's possible. *innocent whistling emote*

LOL - I don't have a barn OR a hallway! really...this place is just 3 sheds they connected together and paneled in wood...it's nice...but the kitchen REALLY IS A BARN! Or it was supposed to be...at one point...I'll have to get a pic sometime...

So does that mean it's okay if my house is always full of baby farm critters?

YES! I would to have that problem. DH won't let me though. He said, MAYBE a bottle baby goat, but he'll have to think about it. Know you are very lucky, and yes please post some pictures. We would love it.

 

[EggsForIHOP]

POMEGRANATE IS NEARING THE FINISH LINE!!! (I think...unless I REALLY have my dates messed up). I REALLY wish things had been less hectic and crazy when the herd was in heat/breeding this fall..I like my accurate info to keep me straight...and I generally have a pretty good memory when things are calm around me and I learned the hard way when the computer crashed to have EVERYTHING backed up somewhere someway somehow...oh well...she's GOT to be closer....

Here is her "WIDE LOAD" pics from this morning:

Laying around chewing cud...most times now she's just chewing cud...relaxing...

From above it's like the Good Year Blimp has landed in the goat shed!

Look at her udder...bigger to anyone else or is it my hopeful eyes?

This one was taken last night at midnight...hmm...bigger today or not?

I can't wait until the ladies are all done having babies, and I am done RAISING babies and all I have to do is wait for next year....the mosquitoes have arrived in Texas, and I am TIRED of being outside and ATE UP right now! I already warned my husband if the bugs get any worse I'm scooting the milkstand IN the front door and milking in the house at night! He knows I don't tolerate the bugs very well...

C'mon Pomegranate! EVERYONE THINK ONLY PINK! Her belly has REALLY dropped this week, so soon...hopefully soon....hoohoo sure is swollen today...like in an hour would be nice, before it rains again...course I bet she too waits like Lucy until the day AFTER it rains, so it can be nice and sloshy icky out...why not right?

THINK PINK PINK PINK! No other colors...PINK!

 

[Queen Mum]

Personally, I'm thinking white, with a pink ribbon around her neck and a lovely little tingly ankle bracelet. What say you?