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Old 12/05/10, 10:17 AM
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My New Goats!!
I have put my photobucket link in here to pics of my new goats.
Lily is a very pregnant boer/ND cross (bred to Dilan)
Flower is a beautiful full blood ND. Her dam is registered and her sire is registerable.
Dilan is a full blood registerable ND. His sire (and grandsire) and dam (and granddam) are all registered waaaaay back. I could get him registered if y'all think it would be worth it.
Doc Holliday is a mini nubian wether. He is about what I will be looking at getting from Dilan and my full blood black Nubian Mercy. Delightful!
Anyway, all of y'all ND/Mini ppl give me your opinions and advice.
I have always had either boers or "just for us" milk goats. I never worried about breeding for udder size or milk production, etc. I just needed them to drop kids so I could have some milk. lol
The lady I got Dilan from was telling me how he puts a good rump line on his offspring. Could someone explain this to me and why it is a good thing?
I am NOT a breeder. Although now with these guys I would like to start doing more than just "having" goats. I do know that if the sires dam has a good udder that is a good thing. Right? Because Flower's dam and sire's dam both have great little udders and pretty good size teats.
Anyway, if y'all could walk me through this like a two yr old that would be great!
Thanks!

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Old 12/05/10, 10:27 AM
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Very cute goats! Congratulations! I am not a pro & not the one to give you advice on conformation but some of the others may jump here & critique your new goats. If your going for milking though & with mini's I would always want to check the dam's udder & her's or the sires off springs udders.

The slant in the rump line I believe if it's a nice angle means they should kid easier, I know I didn't explain that right or in the right words but you always want to look for the rump line.
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Old 12/05/10, 10:29 AM
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The slant in the rump line I believe if it's a nice angle means they should kid easier, I know I didn't explain that right or in the right words but you always want to look for the rump line.
oh, so we like big butts (and we cannot lie)?
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Old 12/05/10, 10:37 AM
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Dilan is very handsome, with all that hair hard to tell his body structure but looks along the same lines as my ND buck Amron. Bucks are 50% your breeding, so coming from good milk lines is a plus.
Flower to me is a bit on the small size, she appears to be the size of my 4 month old Piper, how old is she? At first I thought she was pygmy then re-read your post.
I really like Doc Holiday's structure, very dairy.
And Lily first pic I thought ahhh a boer with short legs LOL, then saw the other pic and could see the ND cast to her face. She is of nice size like my ND Inga.
I am by far NOT an expert and still learning myself so take whatever I say with a grain of salt
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Old 12/05/10, 10:51 AM
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"The lady I got Dilan from was telling me how he puts a good rump line on his offspring."

Maybe for future RUMP ROASTS, lol?
I am assuming that males from him will become lunch?

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Old 12/05/10, 10:59 AM
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Congratualtions! I like the boer/nd cross. She is so cute!
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Old 12/05/10, 11:03 AM
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Bucks are 50% your breeding, so coming from good milk lines is a plus.
Flower to me is a bit on the small size, she appears to be the size of my 4 month old Piper, how old is she?
Thank you! And I really value your opinion. Good so I did good getting Dilan too. yay!
As for Flower she is about 8 months old. That is an estimate from the previous owner. So she is still young. She tried to drink off Lily this morning and that didn't go over to big! lol
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Old 12/05/10, 11:05 AM
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"The lady I got Dilan from was telling me how he puts a good rump line on his offspring."

Maybe for future RUMP ROASTS, lol?
I am assuming that males from him will become lunch?

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LOL I'm not sure!
The males will either be eaten, sold as wethers, or sold as bucks. Depends on which doe kids them as to if we will eat them or not. I imagine a wether out of Dilan and Lily would be meaty and tasty!
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Old 12/05/10, 11:24 AM
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Great pictures! I like Lily such a sweet face
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Old 12/06/10, 10:38 PM
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Great pictures! I like Lily such a sweet face
I know, she's a doll. AND she just dropped this morning so she should be due soon. This was a surprise because we didn't know she was pg when we agreed to buy her. BONUS GOATS!!! lol
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Old 12/07/10, 12:00 AM
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Dilan probably puts a good level topline on his kids. I've seen ND's with goose rumps, not a good trait.
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Old 12/07/10, 02:56 PM
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Dilan probably puts a good level topline on his kids. I've seen ND's with goose rumps, not a good trait.
Goose rumps? What's that? I don't anything about judging the good qualities of an ND.
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