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Old 08/21/07, 09:46 AM
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Tell me what you think...

I'm borrowing this buck and wanted to get a little opinion on him:
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His temperment is nice and I'm not breeding show stock, just needing my little Lamancha dairy girls bred and one little boer cross.

I was told that around here I can advertise them as 'market goats' to local 4-H'ers, but I mainly planned on putting them in the freezer or selling them off...
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Old 08/21/07, 10:00 AM
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he is a handsom devil
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Old 08/21/07, 04:12 PM
 
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That'll work. Proportional head. Medium maturity rate. Younger son of a gun, too. Legs look good, nice upper foreleg, he has meat in back. Eyes set pretty wide, which correlates to wider pinhooks and more meat. Good frame. Round horns mean a gentler disposition. If his feet have not been trimmed recently, nice slow hoof growth.

You say yer borrowing him? Can I borrow him next? LOL.
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Old 08/21/07, 05:18 PM
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Yep, I'm borrowing! The lady wanted him gone for a little while so that she could use another buck for her girls. He was a show goat last year and so he does have a nice disposition since he's been handled a bit. I just have to keep him fed good and that's no big deal to me. I actually trimmed his feet up when he got here. They were not pretty, but she said that he hadn't been done in a while. I'm still getting the hang of trimming these feet. I don't think I'm doing too bad though. I'm going to give him a couple of months here with the girls and that should be long enough to get the deed done!
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Old 08/21/07, 10:21 PM
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he looks great, the only think that could improve him is length of loin, he is a little compact from sholder to hip, but everything else is nice and big and proportionate, he will do just fine for you and will put nice meaty growth on your dairy cross kids, especially when you combine the good genetics from him and the extra milk from the does,
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