Before and After

Oooh, fun! I will add to this tomorrow when it isn't past midnight and I can keep my eyes open!

 

Hi Katrina! It's not going to be till spring until I have a good ff/sf pic but it will be fun to post it when I do...I wish I had before and after pics of my dog though. After a couple months on a flax supplement, he is beautiful! His hair was sooo hard to keep up with :hair: and was always matted and now I want to take him out in public again!

 

I know I have shown these before, but here are before and after pictures of my "second hand rescue*" buck, Parsley:

Before:





this one shows how really red he was...


after:






*Someone else rescued him and started his rehabilitation... so the before picture isn't even the worst his condition was, that was a month or two into rehab!!

edit to add: the after pics were after several good dewormings, copper bolus, free choice minerals, lots of good food, treating for external parasites, lots of work to fix his feet (still working on THAT, since they were warped all out of shape when I got him and it is taking time to get them looking even close to normal) and several hours of grooming to get the crusty scabs and thick falkey dandruffy type scurf off of him.

 

WOW, that is incredible! You did an EXCELLENT job restoring that ole boy! Nice work.

 

I remember those pics of Parsley and think you have done a WONDERFUL job with him! Amazing what love, and some care can do

The only before/after rescue I did we sold over the summer because she was too dominant, and I can only tolerate one dominant female...hehe... But she looked soooo good when I sold her. She had the severe hoof rot so bad half of her foot was gone inside, when I sold her she was one more trim away from having perfect feet :wink:

I guess Summer is our biggest change because she is our baby.

Here she was at birth, about 5 minutes old, she was standing up and discovered her twin, they were talking back and forth for the first time, it was sooo adorable, a priceless moment.


I posted this in the photo section, but here's Summer and her mama yesterday in the snow


She is sooooo fuzzy, I love it hehe

 

I couldn't have done it without all the advice I got here. And it helps that he is just such a good boy.

 

Here's sort of a "watch me mature" for our herdqueen Molly.

As a milking yearling


As a two year old


As a three year old
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As a four year old, LA 89VEVV
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As a five year old, the year she appraised with a final score of 91EEVE



Sorry I don't have any pics of her as a 6 year old.

Here's her udder though, as a 2 year old I think:


As a 3 year old


As a 4 year old




Enjoy!

 

Also here's one for my 'lil' Gertrude

2 months old


4 months old


Promising?


I think so, Gertie's yearling, first fresh udder


From then on, she refused to show how pretty she is, as a milking yearling, appraised 88VVEV




Second freshening udder



Second freshening, appraising 90VEEE as a two year old! My first homebred 90!


No 3 year old pics, sorry

Enjoy!

 

Before dehorning by banding:



After:



Her horns:

 

Yay! So fun! I have a few....

Banshee, when I got her:



I know that growing youngsters get higher in the rear, and then catch up, but this girl was seriously stunted. This is he at 8 months.

This is her after only one month of proper feed, minerals, and some nutritional therapy:



She doubled in size in just one month and her front end stopped looking shrunken. And I am talking about it's size and width, not its height.

This is the rear legs of a selenium deficient doe when I got her:



And one month later with proper care:



She still has a ways to go, but looks a lot better.

Now for some shots of babies growing:

Dutch (now belongs to North Fork Nigerians) as a tiny kid:



And at nearly 5 months:



My buck, Tomahawk at 3 1/2 months:



And at about 9 months:

 

I love seeing before and after pics!
Here is one of are does a couple days after we got her.


After giving her a different kind of mineral and feed, here she is 5 months later

 

Wow, awesome job! You get what you put in, literally! The better they are fed and the higher nutritional plane they are on, the more they thrive.

 

Thanks! My husband was so mad at me for bringing her home. He thought she was the scroungiest looking goat, which she was. It was great seeing her transform and in a couple months we will get our first kids from her.
BTW the person we bought her from has great looking goats and even uses the same feed as us. The only difference is she isn't the low goat on the totem pole here and we use a different kind of mineral. The seller was just as surprised by her transformation as we were.