The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Dogwalker on May 05, 2012, 08:37:29 pm
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Born last night sometime between 10 and 2, having been out to check them around midnight all week last night I slept till 1.45 and went out to find him all licked clean and the bed completely cleaned up. If the kid hadn't been there you wouldn't have known anything had happened.
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Awww....cute, congratulations :thumbsup:
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Well done! :thumbsup:
great pics, enjoy
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That looks a good chunky little boy , total time waster as you will find out in the coming days, they have to be the most comical thing on the planet. well done .
Also well done on the photos.
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thank you tizaala for your help and advise and the services of your billy.
Yes I've done quite a bit of kid watching today but had too many other demands on time to stay too long. I had to keep checking he was OK though.
I feel a bit miffed I didn't see it after all the popping out to check all week, admittedly I thought it would be Gertie not Rosie that kidded first she's been showing much more signs for ages and a couple of other goat keepers agreed with me. Don't think she'll go the two more weeks though.
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Love new babies and they are such fune to watch :thumbsup:
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He's lovely :love:
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I love it when they sneakily do that, it's like an alien spaceship has dropped it there and taken off again :-))) lovely! :thumbsup:
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gorgeous, congratulations :thumbsup:
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Very nice!!
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Aw bless.
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They are so sweet at this stage. They really steal your time away!
But then they don't stay small for that long. Enjoy!
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Oh he is beautiful. Will you be keeping him? Please dont say that he's going in the freezer! ???
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Ohhh, so sweet :love: (NM, that's what happens, doesn't mean we can't love them in the meantime :-*)
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Can't keep them all, but can give them a good life first.
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Can't keep them all, but can give them a good life first.
exactly :thumbsup:
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Awwwww, well done Dogwalker :wave:
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Another first this morning, just ringed him all by myself.
Borrowed the elastrators from my neighbour, his grandson offered to come and help but I thought it best without an audience especially a 15 year old.
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Well done again , as long as they were both in the sack it should be OK. Waiting for the next lot now. :thumbsup:
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By the way Debbie, did you see that Rose joined last night ?.....
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she told me she'd spoken to you and said she would when I phoned her just after you had.
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Why?
I sent a group of 4 males to Boher last December. They send in-kid female goats to Africa, my boys got the good job!
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Are you vegan?
There'll always be more male animals than are needed to impreganate females, if we want milk, eggs etc there's going to be surplus males. Sorry if that offends you but I'm an omnivore and believe it is OK to eat meat. I prefer to eat meat I have raised myself and know the animals have had a good as natural as possible life up to a humane slaughter.
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You are right of course, but I just couldn't eat my own animals.
I take your point that you know they have had a good life up till then.
But personally, I couldn't.
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I think when the time comes this one will be the most difficult because he's the first big animal (not bird) born here but This life is something I have always wanted to try so there's no point being squeamish when it comes to it. It was difficult when the pigs went off last autumn but only for a couple of days till the meat came back.
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You are right of course, but I just couldn't eat my own animals.
I take your point that you know they have had a good life up till then.
But personally, I couldn't.
When I first started goat keeping, I went to someone for advice and she said that she knew people who swapped kids at slaughter time so they took each other's to the abbatoir and ate each others. That's one way round the problem.