When I can get the goats out on pasture/browse!
Not everyone is out yet. The bucks are still couped up in pens, but I made a deal with Sandy. My boys will summer at her farm (far far away from the does) and be in goat heaven. She gets the experience of goats before getting into them with her own goats and I can happily say my boys are out on pasture/browse. They are gonna be sooo fat when they come for breeding. lol Achilles and Rocky (our New Year's Day Boer buckling) will summer here in one of the smaller pens to bond before joining the big boys this next winter (after breeding is over).
The does that kidded in March and April, as well as the three remaining does left to kid and their kids are all at the cow barn still. I am waiting on a smaller pen to grow up for the March/April girls and kids.
But...around 70 head are out on 80 acres for two hours or so each day. I can't leave them out like I had hoped because they will get into trouble. We have 44+ fencerow neighbors and its the farmers to the South that threatent o sue us everytime we turn around...the neighbors in town think the goats are cute...lol
The fullblood Boer doe in the front is the doe we took in right before Christmas. She weighed a whopping 34 pounds at nine months old. The doe we treated for polio, anemia, etc. She'll never grow to her full potential but she is looking good compared to when I brought her home! She's due this September to our 15/16th Boer buck.
The brown doe next to her is our girl, Danielle. 8 years old this year. Our LaManca/Alpine/Nubian doe. On of my favorite milking does.
Co-species grazing anyone? lol
. She has been such a joy!!! I thought your place was very nice!
