Input on my buckling, and my other goats pics :)

[BoerMomma]

I am having a hard time seeing this buckling grow at all. Do they go through spurts at certain times and slow down, I mean really slow down, others? He just hasn't seem to have grown at all since we got him back in September, except for growing his hair back as he was intended to go to the Jack Frost show up in Syracuse. He is 100% boer, and is currently eating Noble goat grain

Pic taken September 19th


Pic taken today, November 4th. 5 months old


And some update pics of the others I haven't got test results back from our vet yet on our one doe, but I am pretty sure it would have came up positive as she is developing 2 more abscesses So we vaccinated everybody else with case-bac, and purchased another doe from a CL free herd and she was also vaccinated. Anyways, here are the pictures

Savannah, registered grade doe (nubian, oberhasli, toggenburg) 2 years old


Oreo, our itty bitty, nigerian/pygmy cross wether, 7 months old


Our new boer doe, 75%, 8months old

[Minelson]

Oreo is so cute!
Please keep us posted on your experience with the CL vaccine. Many here want to use it but are afraid to because it's such a new vaccine.
I was all over it until Johnes reared it's ugly head here.

[BoerMomma]

So far no reactions, the lady I got the red doe from has been using it for a year or so I do believe, with no reactions

[Goat Servant]

Your boy has indeed grown a whole bunch. Yes, they do go through growth spurts.
Love your red %, lovely!

[BoerMomma]

Maybe it's just from me looking at him everyday LOL I have noticed he has grown his hair back from his clipping, but that's the only change I've noticed....hmmm better check my eyes then! Thank you for the compliments on my new red doe I love her! She's such a sweetie too!

[Backfourty,MI.]

Your little buck looks like he's filling out to me & also a little taller when comparing him to the human leg in the picture behind him & where he comes on that.

They continue to grow for 2 years.

[Donna1982]

Little buck looks to be growing to me. I understand totally about worrying if they are or not. I stress over my goats and if I'm giving them enough to grown them to their full potential. One reason i show, I don't trust my own eye with my own goats.

I love your red boer, very pretty. Hope you hear something on your girl soon.

[Mainelyhappy]

Little buck looks a LOT longer in body from the first picture to the second.
Daryl

[Sherry in Iowa]

Your buck is going to surprise the heck out of ya. He has really changed. If it were me, I would not grain him up or rush him. He's growing..you won't know him in another year. LOL..be patient with the lad.

[Ford Zoo]

I agree he's growing. His body looks thicker, and not just from his coat growing. I think the same thing sometimes, that they aren't growing much. Tonight my 9 month old boer buck put his feet up on the fence to say "Hi Mom!" and he was almost as tall as me!

So sorry to hear about your doe, but congrats on the red. She's a beauty!

[BoerMomma]

Thank you for the compliments I love him either way! Not sure I'll love him when he's blubbering at me and trying to pee on me! LOL

Thanks Sherry! Will have to update pics in a few months I don't force grain on them. I was a bit shocked when I went to pick him up and his breeder did. Was amazed really as I have never heard of feeding goats like he did. He kept two big plastic dishes full of grain for his boers...and that's all they ate, no hay, no anything....just grain. I want him to grow, but I don't want him to get fat LOL Just new to goats, and not sure of their growth patterns so I figured I'd ask here

I've learned so much on here in such a short time, and I want to thank you all for that! Such a wonderful place!

[Dreamgoat Annie]

Ooooo, I'm in love with your red doeling. WOW! And it looks to me like your buckling has filled in a lot.

A group of very nice goats!

You mention Case-Bac. Is this a separate Case-Bac for goats? We vaccinated our sheep with regular Case-Bac for sheep 4-5 years ago when the Texas vet made Teasel's autogenic vaccine. I know people at the_boer_goat were vaccinating their goats with sheep Case-Bac at that time. Some liked it, some didn't.

Sue

[mygoat]

I had an 88% red buckling born this spring that looked JUST like your doeling - except for plumbing difference. If it was a doe I woulda kept it in a heartbeat! Crossing fingers for same doe giving a doeling this year. My luck she'll give a traditional doeling and another red buck, lol.

Anywho, I kept bothering the breeder of my boer buck over the last year and a half because I thought he was small. My alpine buck, born within a week of him, was ALWAYS huge compared to my boer buck. The boer buck almost looked dairy for a while... I was worried. Both had same feed, care etc. Picked up my boer buck at 8 wks of age. Did cocci prevention on him, dewormed him, copper bolus, BoSe etc.

Anywho, he came into a STRONG rut this fall, and has beefed up since then. He is big and now looks like a boer buck, lol. Now, if only he wasn't an arse. He knows he is horned, the turd.

[mygoat]

Case-Bac isn't the new goat vaccine... that is the sheep vaccine that supposedly has high reactions in goats. But I know many boer herds (especially) have been using it for years.

One of these days I'll actually email the makers of the goat vaccine and ask for the results of their studies with their vaccine, and if I can share it on this forum.

[BoerMomma]

I'm sort of worried about horns, I guess I just have to watch them lmfao....they are all really sweet and all(except the dairy doe) came to me with horns to big to disbud and I wasn't willing to let the vet cut them off.

I will keep updating pictures of these guys if you would all like me too I'm a huge picture buff and don't want to flood the forums LOL

[mygoat]

My horned boer buck is an arse. HE sure knows he has horns, and though I never 'push' him to be aggressive, he sure acts like he'd be more than willing to use them against me. He has crushed my hand between his horns and the fencing before during feeding and while I was trying to open the gate. He's pushy and stupid. NO matter how often I sit on him, he's still stupid. I take the pitchfork in the pen with me and use it to whallop him if he acts threatening. He's dangerous and I'm happy that my Alpine buck is protective of me and keeps an eye on the Boer buck at all times.

Constant fights with my Alpine buck has given my poor alpine buck a huge scab on the back of his head. The alpine buck comes up lame after their battles, with the boer buck hooking his long legs.

[Clovers_Clan]

There are lots of heated threads on the horns/no horns topic. I have goats with and without. There are pros and cons to both. But I've never had any issues that would warrant going to the extreme of surgical removal. They all get along fine(aggressive goats belong in the freezer). Yes, I have a goat from time to time that gets their head stuck(nothing more serious than them having to wait patiently to work them out of it), and I don't use keyhole feeders(wouldn't anyway). Its just my personal preference to keep the meat herd horned and the dairy herd dis-budded. The two herds are generally separated except when they're all out in the big pasture. Guess I'm one of those still on the fence regarding that topic.

[mygoat]

I won't take them to a vet for surgical removal...

But if I need to, I will put the animal in the freezer. Dangerous animals - horned or disbudded - have no place here.

[BoerMomma]

I never said I'd take them to the vet to have them surgically removed....I said I wasn't willing to do it...to me, it's cruel

[BoerMomma]

So the boer doe we have (red one) is more then 75%.....her dad is 100% and mom is 94% ....darn I wish she had papers Looking into getting a registered paint doe from the same breeder....we will see how it goes