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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: little blue on August 10, 2010, 10:45:56 pm

Title: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: little blue on August 10, 2010, 10:45:56 pm: I'm still so pleased at having a baby... here's another picture, Max and mum ;D ;D
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/S7001640.jpg)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: Roxy on August 11, 2010, 12:03:23 am: Awww. sweet isn't he? Much better than a human baby, Ruth!!

Has he recovered from his disbudding and castration? Er ....he looks big for two weeks old, or is it the way you took the pic!!!
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: Mays on August 11, 2010, 07:41:33 am: i'd be chuffed too, what a little cutie :-*
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: little blue on August 11, 2010, 08:35:35 pm: he is big! ;)
and too wriggly to photograph most of the time!
the disbudding/castration havent bothered him... though I think sometimes he jars himself when he's landed after one of those death-defying leaps & twists that goat kids do :) and cries (little attention seeker!!)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: Anke on August 11, 2010, 09:56:41 pm: Yes, I was surpirsed at how much they cry out during their rough-and-tumble games, much more noisy than lambs...

Just keep watching the horn buds as they heal and if they start to grow again.
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: langdon on August 11, 2010, 10:00:32 pm: they look fab and toggies too ;)
by the way is that a day shelter in the background made out of pallets, if so well done you( or other half ! )
langdon :D :goat:
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: little blue on August 11, 2010, 10:20:04 pm: Quote from: langdon on August 11, 2010, 10:00:32 pm
is that a day shelter in the background made out of pallets, if so well done you( or other half ! )

yes, metre high pallets, with another metre of stock wire above (and inside the pallets). no escapes, though occassionally through the gate...
Max is determined to get himself through the bars of the gate.. we removed the wire from it after my husband ripped holes in three pairs of jeans ::)
pallets free from local factory ;D

we both built it, thankyou very much! and he was at his worst, health wise so I had to go into the hardware shop every other day for huge nails, screws, d-hooks, wire cutters, paint as we went along ... they dread me going in there, I'm sure !!

the "run" is attached to the front of the shed, yes, we built that too !
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: langdon on August 11, 2010, 10:30:15 pm: ooh THANK YOU VERY MUCH well im sorry!!!!!!!!
didnt know you had it in ya ;)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: little blue on August 12, 2010, 05:56:26 pm: ;) :)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: jameslindsay on August 24, 2010, 10:21:50 pm: Hi Ruth how is the wee one doing? :goat:
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: little blue on August 25, 2010, 09:43:29 pm: hi James,
he is an absolute superstar!
going to be a big lad we think, he has shot up and is quite stocky, and eats & drinks well,
I've started getting him used to a collar and harness - he isnt keen but once on he's ok... his mum wont have a lead on at any price despite a year of trying, so I'm determined little Max will be trained & be used!

this picture is nearly two weeks old, he is even bigger, and the horn buds are looking much better... ;D

(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/th_S7001639-1-1.jpg) (http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/?action=view&current=S7001639-1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: jameslindsay on August 25, 2010, 09:54:09 pm: He is so beautiful and looks a right cheeky wee boy!! ::) :P

Good luck with the training, I know how stubborn they can be. :)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: little blue on August 25, 2010, 10:25:27 pm: thankyou, he is :)
Title: Re: Our kid, 2 weeks old
Post by: ballingall on August 25, 2010, 10:45:04 pm: He's growing up quick! He looks well, and lovely markings.

Beth