Naming

[Goat Whisperer]

used to be able to keep everyone straight for generations back...well enough to make my dad and grandpa drag out old records and pictures to verify what I remembered on our cows growing up. I now have a very busy life and with my youngest, I don't sleep much and when I do, I don't rest well. My memory hasn't been keeping up like I wish it would. I try to write everything down but I'm trying to figure out ways to make it easier on myself.

I completely understand!

Another thing people do (I've done this as well) is put the sire & dam's initials prior to the goat's name (Wings & Caprines IR Red Hot for example)

If I wanted to do a particular theme, I'd probably have each dam line start with the same letter, and put the parents initials before the actual name.

 

[babsbag]

I do better at remembering the dam than I do remembering their name. But then I dam raise so I get used to seeing the kids with their dam. This year with bottle raising off site I need to figure out how to keep the lineage straight for the kids I am keeping. Guess collars and name tags at very early ages, and I hate that.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

… and tattoo ASAP!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

So...I tried making something like a spider graph...using Diamond as an example: there are lots of gem/mineral/metal options for both genders. If I try to limit myself to the registration letter of "K," I have to get creative and do things like Kopper, Khrystal, and Khrome as all of the actual K objects are difficult to decipher, let alone expect a small child to say.

Even if I was willing to butcher the spelling, I then run into the problem of how to expand off of this for their offspring. There are some options but those are them limited to trying to stick to L or M depending on the year. That only leads N and P, etc. (O is excluded, along with Q and U.)

Can I just say AAAAHHHHH!?!?

I think that altering the spelling will become a nightmare of trying to keep straight which animals I altered the letter in the traditional spelling and which I didn't.

I'm leaning toward naming Diamond's babies whatever I like along the lines of her theme and develop an individual theme from each line from there. That would ignore the letter of the year but make the lines more traceable in my mind.

Example: Diamond > Ebony (sister would be Ivory lol!) > Midnight (sister would be Shadow) > Starry Night "Star" (sister would be Moonlight "Moonie") > Ursa Major "Ursa" (sister would be Lyra.)

Of course the example is theoretical as someone may only have bucklings or the line may end abruptly or another name from that division may fit better...thoughts??

I'm also thinking DS will get the name Jackson for a buckling unless he forgets...lol

 

[Southern by choice]

I am a bit of a stickler with naming. Little kids can give barn names, but I never let my kids give "official" names to our animals when they were young. They are all older and still we don't always agree... I have yielded to some names I didn't particularly like but then again I have also named some goats like a little kid would. Like "Princess" and "Cupcake"

We have done the hand in hand or goes together names... we did (IR) Red Hot & (IR) Jalapeno - Ramona & Beezus - Hester Prynne & Pearl - Charlotte Bronte & Jane Eyre

I like the name Jackson!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Little kids naming: We have cats named Minnie and Mickey, guinea pigs named Panda Boy and Eric (Ariel's prince,) and the majority of the Disney princesses and several princes...Ariel, Jasmine, Belle, Princess Sophia, Dora, Aladdin, Rock-a-Doodle are all chickens! We also had feeder pigs named Gia and Gloria off of Madagascar...I let the kids name their stuffed animals!

I'd never let the kids pick a "silly" registered name but I don't want the registered names to be so far from the barn names that I can't easily figure out who is who in person/goat and on paper.

 

[Southern by choice]

I hear ya!
Two of our goats that we bought had a compilation of names from their pedigree.... in the end I just cannot have a goats called "...dark sin" and "...mad magic" ...
I cannot even get barn names out of those! So, very unoriginal, but one is "Red" (as you can guess she is a red goat ) but still better than mad magic. The other is Ellie- just can't handle the dark sin thing.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Oh my gosh!!! I couldn't handle that either! I'm sure that doesn't surprise you though. I'm more likely to name all my animals after hymns!

 

[unity]

"...dark sin" Cindy "...mad magic" Maddy

 

[unity]

I started naming all my goats after Gloria, my herd Queen. She had Georgia, Gretchen, Greta, Goldie and Glorianne. But then her daughters started having daughters and now I have Gwen, Gracie, well...you see the problem; my whole herd is G names and I am getting confused. I am not sure where I am going from here yet.