Showing posts with label breeding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breeding. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

New Buck (Breeding Season)

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We sold Jupiter, our gorgeous Nubian buck, a few months ago. We have used him for three seasons now and it’s time for some new blood.   (se...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Balking a Buck (Apron Antics)

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Breeding season is here.  It seems awfully early, being still high summer, but the days are getting shorter and that is the signal that sen...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Four is Too Many

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Christmas gave birth this morning, unaided, to quadruplets. They are all up and nursing, appear to be full term and healthy, and of course ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Beautiful Buck

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Fall is the season for making decisions about goat breeding.  Most goats are seasonal breeders, meaning they only go into heat during certai...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Haku and the Baby Goats ("Shepherd" Indeed)

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Haku is in love with Bunny, the bottle baby. In this photo, he is clearly saying "mine." After several days of close supe...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Goat That Won't Kid

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Yesterday was the first clear day we've had in ages. It's been raining so constantly that I had almost forgotten how to see co...
Monday, February 15, 2016

A Rough Day for Iris (and Me)

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I got up early this morning to go to a work appointment, only to find when I got there that the client had cancelled only minutes before. Ba...
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Saturday, December 26, 2015

A Goat Named Christmas

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On Christmas Eve morning, when Homero went out to feed the animals, he found a baby goat curled up, asleep in the hay. He w...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Tidbits and Fruit Update

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Beautiful evening out with the goats. They are all (all four of them - the fewest number of goats I've had in years) looking fat and...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

The Worst Job on the Farm (Disbudding)

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Meet the littlest baby goat. Flopsy gave birth just a week or so after Polly, who lost both babies (  Sad Day (Breeding Gone Awry) ) be...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sad Day (Breeding Gone Awry)

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A likely looking buckling: Storm Cloud To keep a buck or not to keep a buck is one of the major questions I struggle with. There are a...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

The Goat Who Wouldn't Kid (When to Butt Out)

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Iris, above, is the first goat I bought when I moved here. I was hurting for goats; I couldn't wait. Goats, as far as I was concerne...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Buck Up (Doe Down)

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Yesterday morning, I sent Rowan out to feed the animals because my knee had slipped out of joint as I tried to put on my boots. There w...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Double Buck (the Craigslist Chronicles)

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Sometimes it seems like I spend way too much time on Craigslist. I've toned it down since the early days, when I would spend hours s...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

A Buckling Named Boob

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It looks like breeding season will be delayed this year. This adorable little guy just won't be ready for a few months yet. Breeding...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Unwelcome Drama in the Goat Breeding Business

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For the last two years, breeding my goats was very easy: I had my own buck. Storm Cloud was handsome and healthy, but alas, as with all buck...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

The King Must Die (Goat Breeding and Divine Kingship)

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I used to have my own buck. Storm Cloud, son of Flopsy, was (and presumably still is) an extremely handsome, healthy and virile tri-color pu...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Beautiful New Goat (It's a Small Caprine World)

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I went and did it again - yes, I bought a goat. A new doe. And not just any doe - a gorgeous tri-color spotty doeling. She looks just like t...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

It's a Fricken' Chicken' Miracle!

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The hens have not had good luck this year raising chicks. Twice that I know of, a hen sat on a clutch of eggs for the full 21 days (or longe...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Meet Edith (New Blood in the Herd)

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Following the death of my little black and white doeling (http://newtofarmlife.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-one-really-hurts-bad-year-for-baby...
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