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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: sokel on March 18, 2013, 11:55:20 am
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As the weather is so bad I am sat here doing nothing ::) Been browsing the net and found spotted and Dappled Boers :o
I love them, Would love some but dont think there is any in the UK yet :-\ I also like the Kalahari Boers
I can dream !! :roflanim:
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I keep seeing goats that I'm looking for in Ireland.Why couldn't they build a bloomin tunnel there instead of France!
I saw fainting goats advertised on pre-loved,I've never heard of those comming in to the country(Wouldn't want one anyway)
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I wouldn't want a fainting goat either
I really should stop looking as may be keeping some of this year's kids
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Sokel, what happened to your goat that was starting to kid last week?
I got one nanny due tomorrow and am up and down to the shed every couple of hours - not worth starting to do anything else as in the past she has been a very fast kidder and I do like to be there... and the weather is bloomin awful...
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Sokel, what happened to your goat that was starting to kid last week?
I got one nanny due tomorrow and am up and down to the shed every couple of hours - not worth starting to do anything else as in the past she has been a very fast kidder and I do like to be there... and the weather is bloomin awful...
False alarm
by the next day her back end was dry and no other signs. She could be due any time till mid April
we do have another one due tomorrow so like you I am back and forth day and night
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Oh well, you got a few more weeks to go then on possible false alarms....
I really hope my girl does NOT kid during the night... it's snowing quite a bit out there...
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Its snowing blizzards here as well, just been out and even the dogs didn't want to go with me!
All we know about Lilly is that her due dates are any time from last week in February until the 14th April as she ran with a topknot billy for nearly 7 weeks. some days she looks to have a hugh bag others she hardly has one.
I am so pleased all of the others we have due dates, cant be doing with this not knowing ! I am at the point I am imagining signs
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I'm not surprised. That must be so frustrating, not to mention tiring.
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Anke did your girl kid ? Snowdrop hasnt so we are now watching to goats, one in the main goat shed and the other in the stables ::)
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No Skyee hasn't kidded yet. Uddder huge, tail up vertical, all puffy at the backend, and this morning (day 151) at last definitely dropped (as in hollow sides).... but she is eating well (after a bout of Preg Tox :relief: ) and I can see the kid(s) moving inside when she is lying down...
I am massively frustrated (and frozen to the bone) - for the last 4 nights at least once per night down to check her (and she has got the heavy breathing and looking spaced-out, so need to check!).... :-\ not sure if this is the weather doing it though?
I am meant to go to Newcastle tomorrow, well that is now cancelled... >:(
Anyone elsoe got late births at the moment???? ???
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Same here although tonight snowdrop does have a very slight discharge looks like another sleepless night.
I am invited out for a meal tomorrow night but pnoned to say I doubt I will be there
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They remind me of Boer x Nubians that I have seen.
I crossed my nubie to a boer this year, I hope some of the kids are as pretty as that :love:
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They remind me of Boer x Nubians that I have seen.
I crossed my nubie to a boer this year, I hope some of the kids are as pretty as that :love:
Thats what I thought they looked like but chunkier, Look forward to pics of your kids when they are born.
What colour is she ?
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Someone who called over for some of my Marans keeps Boers, and they have a herd of them. If you want I can look out where they are, though whether they are spotted or not I wouldn't know, or are all Boer goats spotted. Apparently they are a wonderful tender far growing meat breed. :thumbsup:
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Someone who called over for some of my Marans keeps Boers, and they have a herd of them. If you want I can look out where they are, though whether they are spotted or not I wouldn't know, or are all Boer goats spotted. Apparently they are a wonderful tender far growing meat breed. :thumbsup:
Thanks, I have the standard coloured Boers already, just found the spotted and Dappled when I did a google on boer goats and would love one but no signs of them in the UK. I also like the Kalahari (solid red Boers ) I know there is some of them in the UK
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They remind me of Boer x Nubians that I have seen.
I crossed my nubie to a boer this year, I hope some of the kids are as pretty as that :love:
Thats what I thought they looked like but chunkier, Look forward to pics of your kids when they are born.
What colour is she ?
Er I don't know all the proper names for the colours :-[ i'll find a pic of one that looks like her....
I think most ANs are this colour SAme as My Jill
http://www.acacianastud.com/lovelylynda2.jpg (http://www.acacianastud.com/lovelylynda2.jpg)
She looks like this, but has tiny white flecks down her flanks :love:
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Could get some nice kids.
A friend shows Anglos and she has a black Anglo billy kid with white spots
Think I may have to look into the genetics and see if there is a way to breed the spotted Anglo coat into the Boer starting with 50% and breeding up :-\
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I thought Boers were white with brown forequarters. I have half a one and she is very chunky. Pure white but her mum is Sanaan.
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Thats the standard colour
here are a few random pics
Kalahari (Red)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/grahamsokel/2008-7-23-Red-Warrior-left-face-1.jpg)
Spotted
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/grahamsokel/spottedboer.jpg)
Dappled
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/grahamsokel/dappledboer.jpg)
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I googled spotted boers - I think they are probably bred with AN base as colours seem very similar to the ANs and there is a resemblence to AN conformation in some of the pics I have seen.
Some of my 75% Boer 25% Sanaan kids are white with spots on. But I think a way to go before getting to some of the pics above!
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Looking at the shape of those, Cloud is definitely more Boer in build.