Hello from central NY!

[Baymule]

Welcome from Texas!

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

Greetings and welcome from Indiana!
7 acres sounds great, but what restrictions do you have in the suburbs?

We're very lucky, we have the last piece of the original farm from the neighborhood, still zoned ag/res so no restrictions!

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

Welcome from Norhern NY!!! Syracuse is nice. I bought my rabbits around there.
LaManchas are great dairy goats. Twins can have problems during delivery. Were both the bucks okay? I hope your Easter kid or kids turn out great!
What do you keep Angoras for? They are great for fiber, but are a pain in the neck to groom, and get fur mats all.the.time.

It was a textbook birth! About 3 hours from when we noticed the mucous plug to the 2nd kid delivered, and both presented perfectly. They were 7.5 and 7 lbs at birth respectively, up and nursing within 15 minutes. She didn't need any assistance at all, and has been a very attentive mother! Fingers crossed that our second kidding experience is just as easy.

I love our angoras, we have them just for wool right now (and the culls for meat), but we do hope to show in the future. Grooming isn't a big issue for us, I think the French tend to mat a lot less than English. We give them a combing and a blow out once a week for regular grooming, and daily when they're blowing coats.

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

Just another big howdy and welcome from the Great Lone Star State! I second the request for pictures, lord love a duck we live on pictures! Please and thank you.

Here you go!! I am MORE than happy to share pics, most of my friends aren't really interested in seeing a dozen pictures of goats

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

Welcome from NH!

Thanks! We're originally from NH--I went to UNH, and then we lived in Newmarket when we were first married.

 

[NH homesteader]

Nice! I'm over near the VT border. And don't worry, we always appreciate goat pics! (My husband is tired of talking about goats so I come here for my goat fixes! Lol)

 

[Hens and Roos]

Welcome glad you joined us! We raise French angora rabbits-what colors do you have?

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

Welcome glad you joined us! We raise French angora rabbits-what colors do you have?

Right now, we have one each of black, Tort, and fawn does, and one black and one seal buck, plus 9 week old kits-4 black does, 1 REW doe, and a black buck. We lost our best mama a few weeks ago to what we are assuming was a broken spine-went out to the barn one morning to find her hindquarters were paralyzed. After a few days with no improvement we had to put her down.

How about you? Are your buns wool, or show (or both)?

 

[Hens and Roos]

Sorry to hear about your doe, that is a bummer

My DD(17) and DS(11) show them as part of their 4-H project at our county fair. We are also learning to spin the fiber. We have 3 French Angora bucks-an REW, a Chestnut and a broken blue and 4 French Angora does-a fawn(might be due), a tort(she has 4 kits), a chinchilla(she has 7 kits) and an REW. We also have an REW satin angora doe.

 

[Devonviolet]

Hi again, @lemonpoppyseed. I welcomed you a while ago, on your Arnica post.

And another big Texas welcome! I think you'll find there are a lot of us from the big, beautiful state of Texas. We are a mighty friendly bunch!!! And we love to see all the goat pics you want to post!!!

I love the photos of your little LaMancha bucklings. They are darling! I know @Southern by choice, will love to see your little guys. She is partial to LaMancha's AND bucklings/wethers.

I have an 11 day old buckling, that was just weathered on Monday. We had a BYH gathering, here, at our little farm and he was disbudded and castrated. He is my first kid, from a LaMancha doe - a single. I just got her on Feb 8th along with another pregnant LaMancha doe, that is due on April 11th. The way she is shaping up, it looks like she may go a bit early (from the looks of her udder) and might just drop another single. A doeling would be nice. She isn't looking all that big right now.