Southern's 2015 Kidding -Mini's off to new home

[OneFineAcre]

Congrats

 

[bonbean01]

Beautiful babies!!!! Chunk is beautiful as is Callie and so glad to see her outside and looking well and enjoying the day with new kids and her goats

 

[goatgurl]

gotta just love a kiko, while most other meat goat babies are still laying on the ground trying to figure out what happened the kiko babies are up and going, looking for some supper. congratulations. and it is so good to see callie out and about. maybe new goat babies will give her something to think about besides her puppies

 

[Mike CHS]

Are you planning on adding either of these to your herd? I have been looking at the cross for our dairy goats and would be interested in their longer term growth and dairy qualities.

 

[Southern by choice]

Are you planning on adding either of these to your herd? I have been looking at the cross for our dairy goats and would be interested in their longer term growth and dairy qualities.

Our goal is to milk the Kiko and see how her production is as well as duration of lactation. Oh, and of course flavor of the milk!

The Kiko was originally derived from the top dairy goats crossed to the feral goats of New Zealand so I believe they can be a great dual purpose goat.

We allowed our Lamancha buck to breed her as we had no other bucks she wasn't already related to. We wanted the milk. We will probably keep the doeling as we do have a young buck not related that is 1/2 New Zealand 1/2 Kiko and It would be a good experiment.
The buckling will probably be raised for the freezer.
The Lamancha buck we used is out of excellent dairy stock and his dam gave 2 gallons a day at peak... that is NOT usual for a Lamancha.. so it will be interesting.

This year may not be the greatest as far as finding out how well the buckling will actually grow. Once we move and he can be where there is a lot of land will be better. Right now the Kiko doe is with our dairy girls, getting dairy "everything".

 

[Southern by choice]

"Star" is up next. Last year she kidded on day 146 so we expect her to go probably around the same time.
Day 145=2/22
Day 150=2/27
Star is a Lamancha she was bred to "chewy2" ND for mini's.
This is a GREAT line up as far as genetics and should be excellent dairy producer! Chewy is polled, so hoping for a poll in there somewhere. She doesn't look that big and I am afraid she may have a single. FF she had a buck/doe. Star is one of quads... her dam always produces trips/quads. I would be happy for her to have twins... but Please I NEED a doe! I have reserves and it is so far a boy year. UGH!

 

[OneFineAcre]

I hope all goes well

 

[goatgurl]

since star is bred to a nd the twins are in there, just smaller then full munchies would be. thinking twins, thinking pink

 

[bonbean01]

 

[Sweetened]

thinking pinks for you.