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Just a rant about buck libido!!!
I try really hard to ensure that my bucks and does do not ever get together unless I initiate it. But somehow the little buggers found a way again into the does area and I cannot figure out how. Now I have a pregnant doe who is developing an udder now. Out of the 8 possibilities for papa, 5 are her full brothers!!!  Its a nice breeding but I don't want to go the route of such serious inbreeding. And now I don't know who else could be pregnant. I am trying to downsize so I don't have to worry about being able to properly feed everyone this winter and now this! Anybody want some goats?
They are treading on thin ice right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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08/04/11, 07:09 PM
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Wow. That's all I can think of!
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08/04/11, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO
Wow. That's all I can think of!
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Apparantly, that's what the bucks said!! Argh.
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08/04/11, 07:45 PM
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Yikes! I'm happy I don't have that many boys!
How long ago did the boys get in with the gals? The one developing an udder I assume is too far along to abort, but what about the others?
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08/04/11, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by crazygoatgal
Apparantly, that's what the bucks said!! Argh.
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Sorry...but that is funny!
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08/04/11, 08:24 PM
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Apparently they have their own ideas about your down sizing. 
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08/05/11, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Minelson
Sorry...but that is funny!
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Very very funny, Minelson!  About as funny as a case of poison ivy on your buttocks!!!  I'll send all my pregnant does to you to train as guard goats. How does that sound? Not so funny anymore, is it? 
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08/05/11, 03:01 PM
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And now it's your turn! I dealt with Minelson, so here it goes.  I'm going to send you the lovely boys who seem to think that they need to hump everything that moves or breathes!!!!!! And who manage to squeeze through holes unseen by man.  See who is laughing then.
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08/05/11, 05:31 PM
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Now I'm laughing even harder!!!!!!!!! Bwahahahaha!!! 
We really got it didn't we Nancy...>snort<
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08/05/11, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by crazygoatgal
And now it's your turn! I dealt with Minelson, so here it goes. I'm going to send you the lovely boys who seem to think that they need to hump everything that moves or breathes!!!!!! And who manage to squeeze through holes unseen by man. See who is laughing then. |
Bring em on! 
No Min I guess we dont, that Crazygoatgal is living up to her namesake I dont think there's hope for any of us.
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08/06/11, 10:34 AM
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I think if I wasn't selling any of those boys, they'd be dog food pretty soon around here! Crazy goats! We have 1 buck that was jumping any fence we put him in, now my bucks pen looks like the Ghetto, I had to add 4 foot high chicken wire all the way around on top of the 4 foot high feild fence. He doesn't know he could break it if he really wanted too, all he knows is there is something there to keep him in!
Their pasture has cattle panels though & he doesn't go over that, but I did have to add an addition onto the wood gate cause he was going over that. He's not escaped since last fall! Good thing I love him!
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08/06/11, 03:32 PM
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last fall mine kept getting in with the girls so finally I had to sit and watch and he would climb on a hay bale and jump (quite a ways actually) over to the girls pen. Now they are all going into rut again and poor Lily (our potbelly pig) she is getting to be the goat surragote for now, they hump her and she squeals!!
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08/11/11, 05:35 PM
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OK, I have now discovered two other does pregnant that I did not intend to be bred!!!  One is just over a year and little. She also has a flaw of wattles on her ears(looks like she is wearing tear drop earrings). I am at my wits end and am sooo afraid that there will be more. I don't even know when they are due. But all have udders. I am trying to sell and downsize so that I don't go into foreclosure and I seem to get another obstacle in my path everytime I turn around.
All "kidding" aside, I am getting worried that I am going to have 10-20 more goats and no way to afford to feed them or no home to keep them if I lose mine. I have to trust God on this one, but I wish He would help me keep my bucks under control
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08/11/11, 05:44 PM
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I think the first step is to sell or give away all your bucks so you can stop the accidents without a doubt. Then start selling the rest down to 3..2 does and a wether. That way you can keep your house and have the companionship and entertainment of goats.
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08/11/11, 05:58 PM
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I think the first step is to sell or give away all your bucks so you can stop the s without a doubt. Then start selling the rest down to 3..2 does and a wether. That way you can keep your house and have the companionship and entertainment of goats. |
I may have a possible home for some or most of the boys, but it is going to be freezer camp for them. There is a large homeschooling family who raises all their own food and my friend knows them well and they would be good to them, but they won't be pets. I am really OK with that but their son was killed in Afghanistan(a marine) in March and they went to the homecoming for his group of soldiers as a way of showing support for all the men and women he fought with. It makes me cry every time I think or talk about it. They will be home soon and my friend will talk to them. I think it's the wisest thing to do and I don't want them to be treated poorly or inhumanely, so this is the best of both worlds.
Honestly, I don't know how they did it. I still look out to see if someone is in there and I look for holes, whatever and cannot find a thing. And the fence that separates the boys and s is DOUBLE fenced, so their little willies cannot reach the does. I just wish I knew how this happened. Makes you wonder who is smarter, the buck or the owner. 
I sold three does in the last few weeks, THANK THE LORD!!!!
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08/11/11, 06:02 PM
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I sold three does in the last few weeks, THANK THE LORD!!!!
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Woo-hoo!!! That is GREAT!! 
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08/11/11, 06:06 PM
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Awe, thanks Minelson. Actually one baby went to the same friend who is trying to help me "rehome" my bucks. The little doe is 8wks. old and I had planned on keeping her because she is amazing to look at and her mama is my Rosasharn doe. But I retain breeding rights and show rights if I ever start to show. Great arrangement, I think.
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08/11/11, 07:48 PM
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At the very least you will have some good meals. Personally I'd rather see them go for meat than a "pet home"but that's just me.
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08/11/11, 08:04 PM
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I agree that I'd rather see excess goats go for meat than for pets. I downsized to just two does and my buck, and am very happy with having just the three of them. The buck can be a PITA, of course, but nobody else nearby has a decent buck, and the nearest Oberhasli buck is over forty miles away, so I have to keep him.
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08/11/11, 11:02 PM
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BioTracking.com can tell you if your goats are pregnant. All it takes is mailing blood samples to their lab at least a month after the probable breeding date. They charge $7.50 per sample for goat pregnancy tests, and the test is very accurate.
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