What was I thinking?? Buck hoarding? (pics)
 

Oy... I swear I have goat issues.

I sold out the Alpines after my mom passed to focus on my Lamanchas.. Swore I was done breeding Alpines. Kept my one quirky Bleuberry as my token Alpine and bred her to a Lamancha last year and kept an experimental doeling from her (she had triplet does)...

Well..... A friend of mine really wanted one of the doe kids, so we made arrangements, she got pick doeling and I got a jr Lamancha herd sire who I had been drooling over... Go to pick up Mr. Handsome and there is this gorgeous Alpine buckling there.... A sensible person would have said "My goodness, he's a lovely young buck" and then walked away...

Since I'm obviously not so sensible, I said "My goodness isn't he a looker... Is he spoken for?" :smack :smack

Then of course loaded him up and brought him home too.... Because ya know... Ummm... The Lamancha buck needed a buddy right?? (Y'all are gonna pretend you don't know I already had 2 bucks at home) :rolleyes:

So yea, lol Pretty Miss Bleubbery (added her picture to this post) will be bred to this handsome guy this fall who my daughter has nicknamed Patrick and we'll have Alpine kids this spring :) :) :)

I had a smidge of buyers remorse, especially when I'm counting heads and buying feed, so I've decided after I confirm pregnancy via blood test, I'll offer Mr. Handsome up for sale this fall, so any Texas/Oklahoma folks interested in a young French Alpine buck, let me know :p :p lol

Super excited to see the kids though, so hope Bleuberry has a doeling ...

Oh P.S- The black and white Lamancha boy is my new herd sire... He's a bit timid so I haven't been able to get great pics of him yet but I'm so excited to have him... His dam is a paternal half sister to the nicest LM doe I own, and this dude is wide, level and has great feet and legs.. Tops off the package with a really high, open escutcheon.. Can't wait to see his kids :)

I get it! I do! I kept a couple of bucklings born here this past kidding season, because (maybe I'm barn blind. . . . ) I think they are magnificent, and I love their genetics.

You've sure got some handsome fellers there.

Thanks so much! None of the bucks here are my breeding.... But, when I sat down and realized I have hopes to possibly keep 2 bucklings of my own breeding this upcoming season depending on what is born.. Well, the thought of 6 bucks for my small herd is just a wee bit much! :p But, I'll happily use this guy while I have him and worry about the rest later :rolleyes:

My handsome boy, Excalibur, got the spa treatment today; hooves trimmed, and a shave. Got rid of the orange ridge along his back, and the orange pantaloons on his rear legs.

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My other handsome boy, Euphrates.

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They are all so pretty/handsome!

Yes ma'am.... I can see why ya kept those 2 :) Very handsome boys! Think we should start a buck hoarding club? :p

I'm just glad it's bucks I hoard.. better a crazy goat gal .. then a crazy cat lady LOL

susie

I know the feeling I have five bucks right now. Actually six. I have one borrowed/leased for the season. :smack;) On the plus side one of mine is at someone elses !!

I've got five now too! Two 1 1/2 year old half siblings and three half siblings born this past spring. I had two sold- well traded actually- but the woman had vet tests on hers come back positive for CL so it fell through.

I need to sell all of them as soon as they have done their jobs. Although my little Albus is soooo cute, I may have him castrated and keep him as a buddy for my next buck

I have two, but I also have an AI tank. Man do I like buying semen, lol. (Odd phrase to type online...)

He's a nice French. What are his lines?

I only have 4 bucks right now :D...the 3 bucklings from my does that I have for sale don't count, right? And the 2 Nigerian Dwarf bucks only really count as one....so I really only have 3 bucks...goat math? :teehee: That sure is a pretty little alpine buckling you've got there Crystal. I am trying to convince myself that my token Alpine girl does not need her own buck, lol.

Thanks y'all :)

I'd love to be a semen hoarder... I have a few straws in a friends tank, but I can't politely hoard until I have my own tank :)

Dona he's Nixon/Willow Run/YBNVS breeding.....Here's his sire:

http://www.dreamfirefarm.com/id21.html

And when I get back on a computer I'll share his dams pic. :)

Nice sire, can't wait to see his dam. :) It is super exciting imagining the possibilities with a semen tank!

My farm's buck history . . .
Planned to get two does and a whether that would live with the does . . . seriously, that's all we were going to have. Skipping all the doe drama, we got the whether a companion buck (because that buckling looked just gorgeous . . .) then we wanted a solid color buck . . . so we got one (ten days old, for us to bottle feed, I might add.) Then the whether died of Polio. Of course we couldn't have just two bucks, because what if something happened to one? So of course we had to keep Annabeth's kid . . . a buckling. ;) Now, with the intention of having three goats, we ended up with ten and a sheep. How??? :D

Buck Pics from last night. I have a Junior meat buck too, that I was threatening to use on some FF. But I have kind of backed off of that !!;)



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Coso, who is that guy on the left in the bottom pic?? Have any more pics of him...pedigree link maybe? He's a looker! :)

Lonestr, http://www.adgagenetics.org/GoatDeta...ber=L001689355 I'm going to use him on my doelings this year.

I have 8 now :)

we are up to 10 :run:.. (one of those is for sale at least LOL).. in 11 years of having this herd.. this is the very first time I've had more then 4 bucks.. (have always been really good about keeping numbers down.. until this year.. just couldn't pass up the chance to actually go and see and pick the exact bucklings I wanted from herds I've always wanted to add...

susie

It's just this mentality that causes one's downfall. There's always another buck to buy. I have FOUR does. FOUR! Well, THREE if you count the fact that I'll LIKELY sell one of the does before she freshens a 2nd time. Why do I need 2 live bucks and then keep buying semen? why? It's not like my bucks are horrible - my young buck is an AI baby himself and the appraiser loved him this year (I'm smitten - he was the goal of the breeding, but I also kept a sister - he's overall the fave though). My appraiser loved my 3 YO buck (VEV 88) too! I even bought straws out of an american buck that I like but don't really have anything to use him on - because I ALREADY bought Danziger semen to use on my American doe! *sigh*

This is a disease. A horrible, horrible disease. Semen-purchatitis? That doesn't sound good. :strongsad:

wow.. I wasn't even thinking about the semen I have stored in Coso's tank.. there's 6 or so different bucks in there... now adding those to the live ones.. yeah.. I might have a addiction LOL

susie

Yeah, but semen is so much easier to care for. :) And besides, you have to keep the tank filled whether it contains 1 straw or 800 straws, right? :teehee:

Y'all's talk about semen is cracking me up. Thank you, I needed that.

I don't have any bucks, but at this point it's pretty inevitable. I just love goats! :D