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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Blinkers on December 28, 2012, 12:33:27 pm

Title: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on December 28, 2012, 12:33:27 pm
She was about 5 hours old in this photo. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Dogwalker on December 28, 2012, 12:39:23 pm
She'll need to grow into those ears. ;D
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on December 28, 2012, 12:46:40 pm
They are like Satin to the touch  :excited: , she's a little sweetie.   The Mum had a single male last year who was also a cracker and went on to be a stud billie.  He too has the most amazingly long ears.  ;D
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: ballingall on December 28, 2012, 12:48:38 pm
She's VERY pretty. Only a single?


Beth
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on December 28, 2012, 12:54:09 pm
She's VERY pretty. Only a single?


Beth

Sadly, yes - but at least she's a she this year  ;)
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: happygolucky on December 28, 2012, 12:56:00 pm
 :thumbsup:  So sweet, love the name too :love:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: bloomer on December 28, 2012, 12:56:27 pm
awesome ears!!!
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Daisys Mum on December 28, 2012, 12:57:04 pm
Aww she is beautiful :love:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on December 28, 2012, 12:59:51 pm
I love the white spot on top of her head  ;D .  She's a sort of dark chestnut colour with the odd little light coloured spot here and there.    Mum is a plain brown with snow storm ears and Dad is Bacchus my beautiful black a white mottled boy  8)
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Brucklay on December 28, 2012, 01:59:12 pm
Glad all went well - amazing ears  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: sabrina on December 28, 2012, 02:05:29 pm
So cute  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Bionic on December 28, 2012, 02:43:06 pm
She is gorgeous  :thumbsup:
Sally
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: jaykay on December 28, 2012, 02:53:18 pm
She is lovely  :love: Amazing ears  ;D
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Mammyshaz on December 28, 2012, 03:12:25 pm
She is sooo cute  :love: like others have noted, I cannot get over how long her ears are  :D
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Anke on December 28, 2012, 04:23:54 pm
Oooooh, those ears.... lovely little girl.  :love:
 
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 28, 2012, 09:48:09 pm
Aw bless.   :love:   Cloud had enormous ears like that and she grew into them.
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on December 28, 2012, 10:37:46 pm
And here she is at 36 hours....and very tired  :hug:
 
 
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: jaykay on December 29, 2012, 06:27:52 am
Such a little sweetness  :love:

I won't have any kids here til April - and none with ears like that - so I'm enjoying 'early kid' pics  ;D
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Rosemary on December 29, 2012, 08:37:44 am
She's just lovely  :love:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: sokel on January 03, 2013, 03:22:59 am
gorgeous I do like floppy ears
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on January 03, 2013, 03:04:41 pm
She's off to be disbudded tomorrow  :-\ .  Hate having it done, but necessary IMO.
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Lesley Silvester on January 03, 2013, 10:18:47 pm
Very wise.

I still haven't taken my girl to the male.  She was due in season on New Year's Eve but nothing happened.
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on January 03, 2013, 10:40:45 pm
And here she is at 36 hours....and very tired  :hug:

it must be hard work being THAT cute  :love:
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Roxy on January 03, 2013, 10:45:33 pm
Gorgeous!!  I love my Nubians, and always marvel at how big the kids ears are :D   Surprised at just a single kid though - we seem to have triplets.
Title: Re: Meet Flora....born yesterday morning around 6am
Post by: Blinkers on January 04, 2013, 10:52:37 am
All done and dusted with a slightly sore head - poor love.
 
Roxy - the doe is now coming up for 11 years old so I kind of let her off only have a single  ;D , although I hope her daughter (who is rising 6) will throw her usual twins.   Then I've got one from a different line who usually throws twins and then another home bred female who threw triplets as a first kidder, so hoping for a multiple from her too  :thumbsup: . 
 
I've got a difficult decision to make about one other doe though  :-\ .   She had a bad kidding 3 years ago and I gave her a year off; last year she came into season was duly covered but nothing happened and the same thing has happened this year although she doesn't like standing for the buck now.  Spoke to the vet who thinks could try an eostrogen injection but she knows the whole history and isn't too positive about the outcome  :'( .