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Musings of Breeding and Raising Goats on the Farm

~l’Odeur de Goat~

~l’Odeur de Goat~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* My younger daughter has daily chores and responsibilities….. In the morning…she feeds the geriatric turkey hen…the Mama rabbit…an assortment of French Black Copper Maran hens…and Brave….. Brave gets fed his breakfast bucket…high up in a pail that is clipped to an eye bolt in the trunk of a pine tree….. …..his bucket is placed up high for a reason…because he is a tall boy and reaching it is not a problem….. …..and because…

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Baby Goat~~Up-Date

Baby Goat~~Up-Date

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I wanted you to know that the orphaned baby goats are doing well….. …..they are adjusting….. Even though Snickers had twins…and Fatty Patty had triplets…those five babies have adapted and are thriving….. Although…I think the adopted wet-nurses are not so happy….. I’m not even sure they ever officially volunteered for the job…it just kind of…happened….. After Snickers and Fatty Patty both passed…Cami had to be banished from the nursery stall….. Her two boys…

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***The Ides Of March***

***The Ides Of March***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Beware the Ides of March….. We’ve all heard that expression….. …..but apparently there’s an Ides of April…and May…and June…and so on….. It does loose some of its ominous-ness (I guess) when you say…Beware the Ides of August….. But even so…I think (in the future) there are a few baby goats who will be marking the Ides of March down on their calendars….. We’ve covered this before…disbudding and castration…two different ends of the same…

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*A Snickers Post-Script*

*A Snickers Post-Script*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…this is an odd conundrum….. …..but I thought I should add it in as a footnote….. As I said in last week’s post…Snickers died…after a great deal of care and ministrations….. My older daughter was very committed in trying to nurse both Fatty Patty and Snickers back to health….. …..and save them both….. …..so far Fatty Patty is still vertical and amongst us………….Snickers…not so much….. But added to that…is an additional unfortunate/macabre event……..

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*****Snickers*****

*****Snickers*****

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* This is not a happy post….. Snickers did not make it….. My older daughter really really tried hard to save her….. …..she went out every two hours…with conviction….. …..but ultimately other plans were afoot for Snickers….. She was our biggest…healthiest…most robust doe(!?!)….. It makes no sense…whatsoever….. The drenches…the injections…the soaked beet pulp…the supplements…the additives and vitamins…the good food…the nutritious alfalfa….. She had kidded before…it didn’t appear that this birth was a particularly difficult…

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Birthing Issues

Birthing Issues

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps*******   I’ve always taught my daughters to follow their instincts….. If something doesn’t feel right…go with that feeling…don’t fight it…don’t ignore it….. If a situation seems off…then there’s something wrong….. We are not a family of hysterical screamers…(that’s unproductive)…but if your instincts tell you to avoid something or someone….. …..then do it….. Livestock can’t talk to you…well…they do…but not in words….. …..there’s a lot of communication going on…if you look for it….. I’ve…

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*Lots Of Baby Goats*

*Lots Of Baby Goats*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* When it rains………….it pours….. Well…along with the arrival of Killian’s litter…the goats started kidding….. …..and kidding…and birthing…and kidding….. Remember the post where I wrote about Trooper being in a stall with a damaged door…and that hole kept getting bigger…and bigger….. And it was over-looked…and ignored…and over-looked some more….. And finally…Trooper just walked through it?….. And then he romped and had fun with ALL the ladies?….. …..we weren’t 100% sure that Trooper was fertile……..

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…Bro-mance…

…Bro-mance…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I think I’ve mentioned in past posts that a farm is mostly a matriarchal system….. Stallions…Bucks…Boars…Roosters…Drakes…are all necessary…don’t get me wrong….. …..well…I don’t know about roosters…at least our roosters….. Our roosters all crow their faces off during the wee hours of each morning…I swear they’re all on Central European Time….. *************Get With The Program Guys************* But it’s the Mares…Does…Sows…Hens…and Ducks who produce the foals…milk…piglets…and eggs….. Don’t get me wrong…I fully appreciate the Birds…

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*Gateway Goat*

*Gateway Goat*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* *****Hey—If you tried to read my post from Monday (11/13/23)—the button doo-dah didn’t work on the email-thingie—I don’t know why—I’ve paid my WordPress bills—I’ll call my IT-Guy (my older daughter) and see if she can help—(It’s above my pay-grade)***** You might think goats are cute….. A lot of people do….. Some might think it’s relaxing to do yoga with them…(I still can’t wrap my head around that one)….. When I was young…we raised…

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*Small Farm Problems*

*Small Farm Problems*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Is this a problem for us…(or a boon for Trooper?)….. …..(you decide)….. There are so many problems that can and do occur in rural life….. …..things that begin as mini-oddities…flicker into a tiny awareness….. …..flourish quickly into healthy problems…(which can no longer be over-looked)….. …..and in less than a nano-second….. …..they can become world-altering disasters….. Such is a rural life in sunny sub-tropical Florida….. I’m sure all of my friends out there with…

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