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First, I want to start by apologizing for not being on as much the last month. I feel really bad and apologize to you all.
Now for the update -
The biggest update is that I have registered Joe Dirt!!! Woo Hoo!!! I recieved his registration papers yesterday and the breeder seemed very happy with his confirmation and his uniqueness! I am so happy to have him as a registered buck in my herd.
I put a post out about a week or two ago that I had bought the 3 bottle babies that are Joe's first offspring also - well, we sold Oreo as a pet (no papers) but I am keeping the other 2 and registering them both. They are 4 weeks old now and Moon just loves them!
My other AGS buck, Gabriel, I have sold and will be leaving the ranch this weekend along with his wetherd son Billy. They are going to a friends house to live. Although Gabriel is one of my most favorite goats (personality and confirmation) he does not throw color - and I really like color. He is going to a great home. These two were part of the original 4 goats that I bought in the beginning. The lady who has bought them is breeding Gabriel to her Blue eyed AGS registered doe and Joe Dirt is breeding her other AGS registered. I, in return am getting pic of any goat born to either of the does with registration papers. So it was a very nice deal that we did. So lets pray for a blue eyed doe!!!!
In other news - I have not had any other kids born yet - BUT we are getting close. I think March is going to be a great month for me! I have confirmed that my Kinder and my favorite pygmy are both pregnant. I felt the babies on both yesterday. And then of course Fiona has twins confirmed by ultrasound. So then I went back to my records and found this ---
If these goats settled when I think they did -
Daisie (pygmy) is due 3/3/08 by an outside buck (single i believe - but her vuvla does not tell me she is prego, but she is uddering and I felt something possibly a leg - moving around)
Bitty (kinder) is due 3/13/08 by gabriel - single i believe
Fiona (nigerian) is due 3/18/08 by HOPEFULLY Joe Dirt - if she goes earlier - then definately Gabriel. Later - good chance it is Joe Dirt. I really do not think this goat is going to make it much longer. She has twins for sure.
In other news, we have bought two calves that were born in August. A bull and a heifer (obviously). They are at my aunt's house till our road gets better, then we will bring them up to the house.
We are also going to venture into goat meat. We have decided to purchase a Boer buck and 2 Boer does. We will breed these two does yearly, and what babies are born will be for meat consumption for our family. That way we have some change up in what we are eating - yet we can raise here. We have not bought them yet, but we have feelers out to find the right ones!
Other then that, we have been trying to get the roads cleaned up and the trees that broke this winter with all the storms cleaned up. We lost alot of trees / shrubbery because of the record snow falls this year. We didn't just get a little snow over the course of the winter - we would have 5-6 feet snow falls in 2 days, then it would melt off and start over. The poor greenery could not handle it - but the livestock were loving all the broken limbs!
Talk to you all soon
Allison
Now for the update -
The biggest update is that I have registered Joe Dirt!!! Woo Hoo!!! I recieved his registration papers yesterday and the breeder seemed very happy with his confirmation and his uniqueness! I am so happy to have him as a registered buck in my herd.
I put a post out about a week or two ago that I had bought the 3 bottle babies that are Joe's first offspring also - well, we sold Oreo as a pet (no papers) but I am keeping the other 2 and registering them both. They are 4 weeks old now and Moon just loves them!
My other AGS buck, Gabriel, I have sold and will be leaving the ranch this weekend along with his wetherd son Billy. They are going to a friends house to live. Although Gabriel is one of my most favorite goats (personality and confirmation) he does not throw color - and I really like color. He is going to a great home. These two were part of the original 4 goats that I bought in the beginning. The lady who has bought them is breeding Gabriel to her Blue eyed AGS registered doe and Joe Dirt is breeding her other AGS registered. I, in return am getting pic of any goat born to either of the does with registration papers. So it was a very nice deal that we did. So lets pray for a blue eyed doe!!!!
In other news - I have not had any other kids born yet - BUT we are getting close. I think March is going to be a great month for me! I have confirmed that my Kinder and my favorite pygmy are both pregnant. I felt the babies on both yesterday. And then of course Fiona has twins confirmed by ultrasound. So then I went back to my records and found this ---
If these goats settled when I think they did -
Daisie (pygmy) is due 3/3/08 by an outside buck (single i believe - but her vuvla does not tell me she is prego, but she is uddering and I felt something possibly a leg - moving around)
Bitty (kinder) is due 3/13/08 by gabriel - single i believe
Fiona (nigerian) is due 3/18/08 by HOPEFULLY Joe Dirt - if she goes earlier - then definately Gabriel. Later - good chance it is Joe Dirt. I really do not think this goat is going to make it much longer. She has twins for sure.
In other news, we have bought two calves that were born in August. A bull and a heifer (obviously). They are at my aunt's house till our road gets better, then we will bring them up to the house.
We are also going to venture into goat meat. We have decided to purchase a Boer buck and 2 Boer does. We will breed these two does yearly, and what babies are born will be for meat consumption for our family. That way we have some change up in what we are eating - yet we can raise here. We have not bought them yet, but we have feelers out to find the right ones!
Other then that, we have been trying to get the roads cleaned up and the trees that broke this winter with all the storms cleaned up. We lost alot of trees / shrubbery because of the record snow falls this year. We didn't just get a little snow over the course of the winter - we would have 5-6 feet snow falls in 2 days, then it would melt off and start over. The poor greenery could not handle it - but the livestock were loving all the broken limbs!
Talk to you all soon
Allison
