MiniSilkys

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They are all beautiful. Why is summer so outcast? She is cute. My doe's are finally done eaning their March doelings. The herd queens doeling was more stand-offish but is now getting better since I started leading her. She is getting so fat. She is two weeks older than the other doeling and is already beginning her heat cycles. She is only 2 inches shorter than her mama, so I will breed her soon.
 

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@MiniSilkys Summer was bought so she wasn’t handled as much. Mine don’t act like dam raised kids and are almost pests. Leah was bought with Summer but Leah was a bottle baby so she was easily a pet.
 

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Took a few more pics tonight and weighed the youngest babies. Both weighed 8.5#!!

I’m not sure if the goats are discriminating or if Ariel is the queen but it’s not the first time they’ve eaten this way!

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Mine have set bucket groupings as well. I have to gauge how much I put in each feed bucket based on who will be eating from it.
 

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So particular it is laughable. When we had our dairy herd, we had to milk in a set order starting with sparkle, the herd queen. One day another doe got out and into the stanchion first. Since she was there and ready, she was milked first. For a week Sparkle sulked and spurned any advances we made to her. Her Royalness was offended and made sure we knew it. Being high hatted by a goat is a humbling thing!
 

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