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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Roxy on March 04, 2011, 12:13:41 am

Title: Time goes by quickly
Post by: Roxy on March 04, 2011, 12:13:41 am

Primrose and Poppy are a year old this weekend - both well grown girls.  Have taken aftert their father on the height issue.  Will have to look round for a suitable billy for them .....not many goat keepers near us, let alone ones with billies.

Title: Re: Time goes by quickly
Post by: wytsend on March 04, 2011, 06:44:00 am

Because of the many regulations - some of them not too sensible for goatkeepers - it is easier to have your own male these days.   Few people want their girls away for 6 days standstill !

I recommend one male with a castrate companion.

What breed are your girls ?   I keep ANs & Saanen.

Title: Re: Time goes by quickly
Post by: Roxy on March 05, 2011, 10:16:46 pm

I do keep my own billy goats usually.  I sold these goats dad last summer as obviously I did not want to use him on his daughters.  He was a really nice British Allpine, and I do regret selling him to be honest.  Their mother is a sanaan.  Primrose and Poppy are both all white. 

I do have another billy goat but he is a pygmy.

I may well have to look around for a new billy goat in the Autumn.

Title: Re: Time goes by quickly
Post by: wytsend on March 06, 2011, 08:56:01 am

Better to book one soon as most people either pts or castrate within 1 week of birth,  Because it costs so much to register etc now, you have to be very hard on the quality.

I may well have a spare billy kid with dutch bloodlines.