Hi, I'm back after an excellent summer and a busy beginning-of-fall.
I have a lot of catching up to do... did I miss anything really important? I think I posted about twice this summer, and I never even had time to lurk...
I did not breed this year, nor will I be breeding for next. I do have two dairy pets who I can't part with, so I still have them. I also bought two 3/4 boer bucklings (who have since been wethered) back in May, who I was going to have butchered for this fall but then everyone got quarantined for exposure to rabies. So no eating or selling or leaving the property for any of the mammals until February (except the dogs and cats, who were vaccinated), but the butchers will not butcher for us till April (an 8 month quarantine vs. 6) just to be safe. So of course I'm getting really attached to these boys...
they have radically different personalities than any of the babies that I've bred here. They are goofy boys, and not as bright-seeming as the kids of raised before but very very sweet. And Yukiko, my Saanen that I kept, is really maternal towards them. I think she missed having babies of her own and adopted them.
So here are a few pics, just for fun.
Here are the boys when they were little, sometime in June. They really havent grown that much, which is disappointing, but their half-alpine mother was just a little thing so I guess I cant expect that much. They have bulked up a bit, though. They are around 60 lbs at the moment. I dont know what to expect from meat goats, so I dont know if thats no good or what. Casper is the tan headed one (and he is so dumb... but you can't help loving him) and Calvin in the brown headed one. He's much less demanding, more clever, and less of a drama queen than Casper.
Then these are from a few weeks ago.
Casper is trying to bite a cat here - one of his favorite activities. This is the only cat that puts up with it. And Yukiko is wearing my hoodie, because she kept trying to pull it off of me.
I do hope that these are at a manageable size... I know the first two are but I dont know about the last three. My computer shows them ok. Photobucket was acting up, as usual.
Fun stuff.
