A couple of this year's doelings (Picture heavy)

[dosthouhavemilk]

We had 29 does born from November 9th, 2006 and the last one was born May 23rd or so. I don't remmeber off the top of my head. lol It was a looong kidding season. There were also 32 bucks as well.
Here are three of the does from this past kidding season;
First up is Geisha. She is 1/4 Boer, 1/4 Saanen, 1/4 LaMancha/Alpine and 1/4 Pygmy. She is out of our 8 year old fence climber. She was born the day after Christmas. Raised on CAE prevention. She was 52 pounds at less than 12 weeks old...quite the chunker.

Finally, a few hours later, Elegance kidded with her twins. She has produced buck/doe twins the past two years. The bucks have long ears and the doelings end up with elf ears. Elegance is 3/4 Nubian, 1/4 LaMancha/Alpine with elf ears. She delivered a long eared doeling and then an elf eared doeling out of our polled Nubian buck. We retained Genevieve, the polled long eared doeling, and sold the elf eared twin doe. She has been named Shiloh by her new family. Shiloh was raised on prevention but Genevieve was left on her dam. Dad refers to her as "Target";


This next doeling is 5/8 Boer, 1/8 Saanen, 3/16 Nubian, 1/16 LaMancha/Alpine. She is tentatively named Zsa Zsa LaBoer. Yes. I am stealing the name! I like it. Not sure how well it fits her, but I will end up using that name at some point;



We have does due to start kidding again on August 4th and through the beginning of October. 19, if all who were exposed settled. I don't think they all took, but it will be interesting for a couple of months. We have never kidded out this time of year. If it goes well, we'll probably switch to two kidding seasons a year.
Peach Blossom is due August 4th. She turned a year old on February 2nd. The buck I had she and four other does in was a dud, so they did not take. She is a bit on the plump side, unfortunately. She is 5/8 Boer, 1/4 Saanen, 1/8 LaMancha/Alpine.



Do you see the Boer influence?
Mostly this year's kids though there are a couple of older does.



The Pirahnas...take one 7 year old LaMancha/Alpine/Saanen doe, one branch and just watch;

Poor branch never had a chance....


Any blue marks on the goats are from a livestock crayon. We marked each goat after we wormed them two days ago...With 75 to do we didn't want to waste time catching goats that had already been done...lol

[Jyllie63]

Awe...how nice to see Shiloh's sister and pen-mate

[HazyDay]

I love the Nubians! Wnna trade for a spotted buck? The 7 year old doe's udder must be a dream to milk! and all those La Mancha and Nubains are so cute! Wanna let me come and live with you! KIdding! My goats would have to cxome also!!!

[goatiegurl*Oh]

Pretty goats! I like Target,the black and tan doe in the back of the last picture,and the doe in front of her thats eating the treee with a white patch on her side.

[cjb]

cute goaties!

[dosthouhavemilk]

Jill, I loved the pictures of Shiloh on your site. Her sister isn't near as friendly. lol It was like an explosion when I caught her for deworming. She kept jumping while I had my arms around her. Quite the opposite demeanor of her twin. More like their dam. Genevieve is still nursing Elegance and Elegance still has quite a bit of milk. I just looove that line.

Hazy, Snow White's udder is quite the improvement over her dam's for sure. Her dam, a grade Saanen, had the worst teats I've seen in our goat herd to date. Big bulbous things that were incredibly difficult to milk. Out of five kids, only one could ever nurse on its own (SW's littermate sister). The other ones were fed bottles by us and raised by their dam. Each generation in that line has improved in orifice size and teat size as well. I don't milk SW on a regular basis. She raises twins each year...well.. she has thus far. Next year I'll pull any doelings she has. Then I will probably have to milk her, like I did her daughter out of a Nubian. Way more milk than one kid can handle.

Ashley, I believe you are referring to Danielle when you say Black and tan (elf eared doe...a little on the thin side?). If so, she is an 8 year old doe. Our first bottle baby, the first kid I ever saw born. She is an older half sister to Snow White, they share a LaMancha/Alpine sire, and she is out of a Nubian. Her dam took Grand Champion at our county Fair as a three year old, I believe. Danielle took first in her class that same year. Very small classes and 4-H. Not saying a whole lot but the judge liked the does. She is Target's granddam (and Zsa Zsa's great granddam) and where the elf ears come from in that line. She was my favorite doe to milk. Her daughter, Elegance, is an improvement over her with milking ability. The entire line is just fun to milk.
The doe with white in front of her is a NuPine yearling doe named, Leda. She's hopefully due this August/September to our new Nubian buck. Airplane ears. I'll be selling she or her twin, Gemini (has a white spot on both sides, where Leda has just the one), after they kid this Fall. Can't keep them all. Their dam is the doe I was milking until about a week ago. Lots and lots of milk. A beautiful Alpine doe with a nice level topline. Their toplines aren't quite as nice.

Thanks, cjb! I love them...well...most of the time. lol

Kim, I've got a picture for you...

This is Sweet Pea with her best buddy, Talia. I noticed them resting together the other night after I let everyone back in. They had their necks wrapped around one another. Talia seeked her out this evening before laying down. They are best of buds. I was happy to see her settled in that well already.

[KimM]

Oh cute!!! I'm glad she made a close friend, they make a great pair. She looks very content.

Originally Posted by dosthouhavemilk

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Kim, I've got a picture for you...

This is Sweet Pea with her best buddy, Talia. I noticed them resting together the other night after I let everyone back in. They had their necks wrapped around one another. Talia seeked her out this evening before laying down. They are best of buds. I was happy to see her settled in that well already.

[goatiegurl*Oh]

No,she doesnt have elf ears.She's at the back,in the middle of the picture,with her head up eating leaves,and has a white spot on her head.