Nougat!First one has a twin -- same spot color changes...
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Baymule
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That’s like an Appaloosa horse! They change color like that. Some change color after every spring, shedding out winter hair.
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Yep, appys do that! Also your gray dapples. But these guys will keep the new colors as they age. Those bright spots are like $$ for sales. You can sure see the diversity of color in genetics. Some of their offspring will be amazing. The whiter dappled one will be grown out & used here. He's a hunk for conformation. Color both sides, 2 gen back. I look for body type (he has it) but we know color sells!! All 3 will grow out, couple will sell as breeders, off the farm. Have another brown/black dapple to do same. All full Boer. Good kidding year.
For a butcher, those skins bring $$$ too. Goat skins make great gloves
For a butcher, those skins bring $$$ too. Goat skins make great gloves
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Surprise!!!! Twin kids today 
This doe has had some milk increasing & I thought, I need to milk her out!! Thought she didn't dry up from kids gone. Actually, didn't remember IF/WHEN... She's one of 5 black does.
This week she really filled and I said she's hard to catch but I must. Plus take her to next auction because that's worse udder I've ever seen here. As I'm looking at tractor engine, I heard some squeaky cries from a machine shed...thought someone was caught in something. Go check & there they are wet, dirty & one standing, one trying. OMG -- shocked!!
Ok, she's still being sold!!!! No way that udder stays
looks like both bucklings. But now, how soon. May take "family". But she'd do better dried up!!! 
This doe has had some milk increasing & I thought, I need to milk her out!! Thought she didn't dry up from kids gone
. Actually, didn't remember IF/WHEN... She's one of 5 black does.This week she really filled and I said she's hard to catch but I must. Plus take her to next auction because that's worse udder I've ever seen here. As I'm looking at tractor engine, I heard some squeaky cries from a machine shed...thought someone was caught in something. Go check & there they are wet, dirty & one standing, one trying. OMG -- shocked!!
Ok, she's still being sold!!!! No way that udder stays
looks like both bucklings. But now, how soon. May take "family". But she'd do better dried up!!! - Thread starter
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IF ONLY...these surprises went smoothly 
Told you, baaaad udder. No attachment beyond very top, so hangs allmost to ground. Kids can't find the nipple, it's not up there
one did, other didn't. So I take both to barn stall, surprisingly she followed nicely. All in. Water bucket filled, took grain for her. Went in stall, kneeled, petted her & she stood perfect for me to milk. Took a few squirts on each side & held the one up -- had to hold her bag up, too. But he got a good meal. #2 next. Left them by her, so they could search around.
I'll go back out in an hr or so for another try....if they don't find it, yep help. They'll get thru the night. Ditto in morning. It'll take a day or two but will get worked out
. They'll adapt. She very attentive to them.
I thought they were all done last month.
Told you, baaaad udder. No attachment beyond very top, so hangs allmost to ground. Kids can't find the nipple, it's not up there
one did, other didn't. So I take both to barn stall, surprisingly she followed nicely. All in. Water bucket filled, took grain for her. Went in stall, kneeled, petted her & she stood perfect for me to milk. Took a few squirts on each side & held the one up -- had to hold her bag up, too. But he got a good meal. #2 next. Left them by her, so they could search around.I'll go back out in an hr or so for another try....if they don't find it, yep help. They'll get thru the night. Ditto in morning. It'll take a day or two but will get worked out
. They'll adapt. She very attentive to them.I thought they were all done last month.
Baymule
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Surprised by babies! Good thing you found them!
I sat next to a buyer when I took my last load of lambs to auction. He bought several moon spotted Boer bucks and commented that he had some pretty rugs at home.
I sat next to a buyer when I took my last load of lambs to auction. He bought several moon spotted Boer bucks and commented that he had some pretty rugs at home.
Ridgetop
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You are right to get rid of anything with an udder like that! There is a reason udder attachments are so important in dairy animals and that is one of them!
I was given a registered Nubian doe with an udder like that. Delicious milk and huge yield! But the udder attachments were so bad and the udder was so large and heavy that it hung into the bucket. I had to suport it on my forearms to milk and it compressed my wrists on the rim of the bucket and put my hands to sleep! Did not even breed her for kids - just finished lactation and sold her on.
I was given a registered Nubian doe with an udder like that. Delicious milk and huge yield! But the udder attachments were so bad and the udder was so large and heavy that it hung into the bucket. I had to suport it on my forearms to milk and it compressed my wrists on the rim of the bucket and put my hands to sleep! Did not even breed her for kids - just finished lactation and sold her on.
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She's sure being sold!! This was strange. But I'll be sure kids learn to nurse! I've had a couple older does who get low but attachments were good, just huge udder. This is not that. Ehhhh....she'll feed them & I'll sell all 3 anyway. Once dried up she looks good -- body wise at least! She'll bring good feed $$.
Strange because NO goat here has this issue....or buck heritage. I gotta odd one. It happens.
Strange because NO goat here has this issue....or buck heritage. I gotta odd one. It happens.
