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I had a few minutes today while filling up anything that holds water for when the power goes out so figured I would get this thing going! I have a little over a month before kids start hitting the ground.
First are the boys. No recent pictures until they put some weight on. It's been a super weird year and they seem to be in even more rut the last month then they were with the ladies so they are distracted and not getting the TLC I'm attempting to give them.........seriously if I could live without bucks I would!
So first up is Snot......ok I already lied no recent pictures coming of him because I sold his stupid fence jumping butt!
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Next is Lamar, my only boy who hasn't ticked me off this year lol
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And a baby picture or Titan, I'm not sure why I can't find more recent pictures of him, I know I took some! He is 18 months old now
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And my AI baby (who is on my list today!) Son of a Gun AKA Sonny who is now a year old.
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I think I have all the ladies pictures. I'm not totally sure they all are bred just yet (seriously a very weird year!) so I might end up having two kidding seasons this year.
But first up is Bootsie bred for Snot due 11/25
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Gypsy Bred to Snot due 11/26
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Ginger bred to Lamar due 11/28
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Bambi bred to Snot due 11/28
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Rosie bred for Lamar due 11/29
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Star Fire, reason #1 of 8 I sold Snot lol maybe bred to Sonny, maybe commercial kids. I only have one due date on her for 11/29 and gave her lute and did not witness a heat again but for sure bred
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Domino, same story just I need to ultrasound to see if she is even bred
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Sally, didn't give lute so commercial kids due 11/29
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Cherry, need to ultrasound and black out bred to Titan due 12/2 both first timers
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Glitter bred to snot due 11/30
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Anna bred for snot due 11/30
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Bella bred for Lamar due 12/1
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Barbie another depends when she kids and a first timer
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Cammie same story
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Daphne first timer bred to Lamar due 12/1
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Thunder bred to Titan due 12/2
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Carmella bred for Lamar due 12/3
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Dakota first timer bred to Lamar due 12/5 and I ultrasounded her and she has twins
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Sparkles bred to Titan due 12/5
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Godiva Jr first timer bred to Snot due 12/8
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And my heck if I knows
Twilight for sure bred to Lamar........oh hang on I have too many pictures lol
 
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#2 ·
Ok twilight
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Cinderella bred to Snot
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Taffy bred to snot
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Jule bred to Titan
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Cali bred to Titan
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Puzzle bred to Snot
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Missy bred to snot
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And Jasmine I actually AIed her last week so fingers crossed (she's the black dapple daphne photo bombed her!)
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And that should be it this is the least amount of does I've had since I first started so should be a breeze......I sure hope so at least lol
 
#7 ·
I was thinking wow that's a lot less does!! Lol. They're all so pretty though.

And our bucks are rutting heavy too...they've got all kinds of extras to build weight and they ignore. I've been way to familiar with fence jumping bucks this season. Never before...what is up?? I was about to ban all bucks from this property HAHA. Now that everyone is bred, no more fence jumping BUT still rutty as can be. Sigh.
 
#9 ·
You have an alpaca??

Sally is looking oh so lovely! I forgive her for crushing your plastic balling gun :)

It was a my first year with my buck jumping fences too. No fun. I also have notes like this "if she kids this date, this buck, but this date, the other buck..." Not a simple estimated due dates calendar that I like to post on my fridge!
 
#11 ·
I have no idea what the issue is with the bucks this year but they are driving me nuts! Snot I think his issue was that Sonny was SO loud when one of his girls came into heat. Even then he went over and threw fencing and hot fence like it was nothing. It’s going to possibly be bad enough with the girls that might end up having commercial kids but if he got it in his head to go to all the other boys pens too that would really hurt. So he now lives where it’s welded pipe 6’ tall and doing great lol
Yes that is Tina the alpaca. She’s a good girl and probably the best $150 I ever spent. She is a scare crow but she loves her goats and really loves new borns. If she’s not with the herd I know that one has snuck off to kid because she sticks to them like glue.
Thank you everyone. I am sure hoping for a nice easy kidding. But it is 2020 so in a way I’m kinda dreading it as well to a degree.
 
#14 ·
Well it would make more sense that one would have a llama that could protect the goats and not a little alpaca lol but don’t ask her what she is she will tell you she’s a goat.
When I got her and the male (which was a total turd!) my husband was SO mad at me! He finally said I could keep them (yeah I was keeping anyways) as long as he could name her Tina. Since it would have solved a huge fight I let him name her Tina.
And that Sally! She may not be the thickest thing but she is by far the best goat we have. She is such a sweet heart and we all love her. Even my dad says the only one he likes is that two faced goat lol that’s why she didn’t get any lute. Her kids would probably be commercial anyways and I wasn’t going to risk her being able to have kids in any way.
 
#15 ·
Ok Godiva Jr is going to have kids 5 months from today lol I guess I’ll be having my 2 kidding seasons after all. It looks like missy might also be in heat but after dealing with that spoiled brat and getting her into a buck I had no more go in me. I don’t know how people hand breed. They are either tougher then I am or their goats are a lot better at leading then mine lol
 
#19 ·
Poor Rosie is always big lol she won’t fool me this year though. I thought for sure quads last year but only twins, that sneaky girl lol
Dakota is my soon to me 2 year old. I don’t know if you remember a nasty doe I had, Nutters, she was always over the top mean when she had kids and I waited 10 years for a doe kid out of her. Not that I necessarily liked her personality but she was a nice looking doe and the first decent quality doe I bought. Anyways she had twins (well actually triplets but one was DOA) and I pulled the little girl (Dakota) so she would t be mean like mom. She is the total opposite of her mother. I’m pretty sure she lives in lala land most of the time lol
Lol that alpaca is probably a total waste of feed but she makes me laugh just by the things she does. She has small man syndrome and it is so funny. I hear about how goats and alpacas shouldn’t be together because the goats will pick on the alpacas. That is not the case with her. She is not pushy but when she claims her spot at the feeder if anyone pushes on her she spits right in their face and they back off. She doesn’t like to be touched but I just adore the fuzz ball.
If I brought a pig home after the last ones I would probably have to find a new place to live. I keep telling the husband the kune kune are NOT like the last ones I had but he won’t go for it :/
 
#22 ·
I keep telling him kune kune are not your normal pigs but he’s not buying it. The last ones got to be such a pain in the butt though. They peeled all the siding off my shed, attacked the dogs for their food and would go in the way when we would gather cows. They wouldn’t have caused this many issues if I could have kept them contained! Dang pigs lol
Dakota is so stinking adorable, but in a air head kinda way. It is so funny to see just how different she is from her mom. All the boys mom raised were just a nuts as she was.
Lol yes madhouse it works very well. But she is never a bully about it. As long as they nicely eat by her she has no issues with them and leaves them alone. The only down side that I have not been able to figure out is she loves to stand in the water troughs :/ I even bought her a kiddie pool just for her but she would rather the troughs. So I just use the empty protein tubs and have about 10 of them out there so I can dump the one she picked to get dirty that day. At least I have a very healthy oak tree from watering it every day lol
 
#23 ·
Aww how funny. My Roam pony..I swear she is ADHD..love her. But everyone is coming in for feed..I have to keep calling her....to remind her to.come on. Then I rattle the bucket...and she says...Oh Ok.! Here she comes...till she sees something..like a bag in a tree...leaves floating by...anything that moves...lol lol .But she is a happy girl always chipper. Lol lol
 
#24 ·
Yes that is Dakota to a T as well! And there is no herding her anyplace, she has to follow but of course she gets side tracked. When we got them all in for shots she did that and I told the kids just leave her I don’t have time for her. She showed up for her shots but it was on her time lol hopefully her little brain wakes up when she has kids lol
 
#28 ·
The cursed year of 2020 strikes again! I was unsure of 6 does so finally had a minute and ultrasounded them. All open. Soooo either Sonny was too young and dumb to get the job done or he’s no good. Maybe the girls didn’t like him and beat him up too. I don’t know but I’m pretty depressed. All the girls that are open we’re either his or they were Snots which I had to take out after 3 weeks because he wouldn’t stay in his pen and I waited 2 weeks and put sonny in with them figuring there would only be a few to cover. In my defense there was only a few.
Sooooo I will have a even smaller kidding season of only 18 girls. I have all the open girls next to the buck pens now and as they come into heat I’ll get them bred. I will be kidding all year long but better then waiting another year.
Jasmine was in heat 2 weeks ago and I put her back in with sonny. If she comes back into heat I might just cut my losses and sell him. There is no place around here to test him and see if he is any good.
But in 2 days I start my baby watch! I’m down to only 500 things to get done before I’m ready lol but I’m getting there. Last night I just realized I have no ear tags lol so got them ordered. I’m sure they will come when I have 20 kids on the ground so it will be a game of figure out who goes to who :p
 
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