Author Topic: 3 for the price of 2!!!!! (Read 2394 times)

woollyval · « **on:** July 20, 2011, 02:26:40 pm »

Having recently bought 2 goatlings, one with a tidy udder, a maiden milker I assumed, neither had seen a male apparently....I was a little concerned over the last week at the udder development on the BT....nothing otherwise led me to think she might be in kid....none of the obvious signs, nothing....until this morning when there was an enormous....and I mean enormous, BT male kid bounding about!!!!!!!
So......I will have what looks to be a cracking little chap who hails from Theban, Aphrodite, Monarch and Tetherdown lines with oodles of champions and breed champions who I would like to swap for a boer male at some point!.......any one want him???

wytsend · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2011, 02:50:48 pm »

well well well.... another immaculate conception on this forum !!!!!!

What a shame you are not on the scrapie scheme otherwise I would have snapped him up with those bloodlines.

woollyval · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2011, 03:07:18 pm »

Indeed a shame! I do have a scrapie and cae form from their previous owners who are scrapie and CAE tested if that helps anyone else? The herd was/is closed and they are the only goats on my premesis

Anke · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2011, 06:09:17 pm »

But how do you know who dad is - I mean she wasn't supposed to be in kid.... How would you go and register the kid, I presume you don't have a service certificate? That needs to be completed on the day of the actual mating.... so this kid wouldn't be any good for breeding from in the future?

But you should have a good and maybe unexpected milk supply??? Always a bonus!

woollyval · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2011, 07:46:00 pm »

Yes I know exactly who sire is as have spoken to her breeder and it was the BT buckling they had running with the BTs....I have his details! A service certificate is required if you take a goat to a male but commercial herds that register, like this herd does, put an approximate date on the service cert as they do not always see em at it so to speak!
I am a BGS member with a registered prefix and the dam has been transferred to me, a service cert is in the post so there should be no problem in me registering him as a proper BT male under my prefix.
I want to use him in future...he really is a cracker and I know because I have had sires of merit and breed champion males that I bought as kids....and bred a breed champion male! He is nice and dark but not too dark and has dazzeling whites, is very long and has 4 good wide strong legs!