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langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
  • The Happy Smallholder!
looking for stud
« on: August 04, 2010, 09:54:39 pm »
want to start looking for nearest stud ( pembrokeshire) but am finding
it hard to locate one.
has anyone got any ideas or know of any in this area?
thanks for any reply ;)
langdon :goat:
Langdon ;)

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: looking for stud
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2010, 11:38:57 am »
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2010, 02:18:42 pm »
What breed have you in mind, Langdon?  Seem lots of goat owners in Wales, so got to be some intact billies around

langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
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Re: looking for stud
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2010, 09:42:42 pm »
thanks plums great info but a bit to far for me!
hope all is well
Langdon ;)

langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
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Re: looking for stud
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2010, 09:46:56 pm »
havent really taken that in to consideration roxy, im just hoping to find one close by!
now that im here im going to pick your brains once more.
you know that milly is not a pure toggie, we noticed that there is alot of white coming through
her coat.
what can this be? what ever other breed she is crossed with?
cant be ol age!
hope all is well.
langdon :goat:
Langdon ;)

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2010, 11:42:30 pm »
Is Millie the one with the long ears or is that Molly?  Are you going to breed from both?  Really need to stagger the breeding (one this year, one next) so you have milk pretty much contast.

A lot of goats  which are x breed have sanaan in them, which are the white ones.  So, that could be the white, coming through when the coats change from summer to winter.

A lady wanted to buy Poppy and Primrose my two white kids - she thought they were pure bred Sanaans but they are not.  Mum was a sanaan, but dad was a big British Alpine - black with a white stripy face and white legs.  I was very honest and told her the truth (but she still wanted them!)  So, if I breed from them, they could have kids the colour of their dad, or patched black and white (have had one that colour before now!)

langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
  • The Happy Smallholder!
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2010, 09:58:31 pm »
milly is the one with long ears!
thanks for advicing us to just mate one at a time!
makes that easier for us, seems hopefully that milly may have a sannen in her.
i like the black and white ' bagort, or something, im embarresed as i love these. you gt them as pigmy dont know about domestic.
langdon ;) :goat:
p.s. im sure james has got one
Langdon ;)

chickenfeed

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Re: looking for stud
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2010, 07:59:05 am »
 ;)hi where are you and are your girls cae tested the next question would be are they horned ?

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2010, 07:53:10 pm »
you mean like me...

  ?!

Cesar is my registered pedigree Bagot billy goat.
they are bigger than pygmies... but not much! kind of the next size up!

proper mountain-type goats, and quite rare.
there is a bagot club website (but I make no comment on its usefullness ) I can ask my friend if any of hers went to Pembroke area if you like ;)

there is also info on the Rare Breed Survival trust site.
http://www.rbst.org.uk/watch-list/goats/bagot

If you and the girl goat want a holiday in Derbyshire, you're very welcome...    :wave:
Little Blue

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2010, 08:16:56 pm »
also just found this...
http://rbst.org.uk/stock-exchange/goats

for artificial insemination etc of bagots..
Little Blue

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
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Re: looking for stud
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2010, 08:38:22 pm »
he is gorgeous little blue!! is he Max's dad?  I think you might have a queue for him - Savannah is looking for a boyfriend this autumn too!!
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2010, 09:01:01 pm »
yes, he's Max's dad... can't you just tell ?!   
 
I would absolutely insist on CAE test certificates, and a general health screen.... Bagot are "critical" on the RBST register, so he's valuable in so many ways..

:)
Little Blue

plumseverywhere

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  • Worcestershire
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Re: looking for stud
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2010, 09:03:51 pm »
I don't blame you!! I can see Max in him (or vice versa?!) from the pics  :)  they have some Bagot's at honeybourne (the fowl trust) but they look nothing like yours - he's positively glam!
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2010, 09:05:43 pm »
poser for the camera!
he's actually incredibly shy of people... and was pretty terrified when he saw our girls for the first time!
big wuss.... he's slightly calmer since Max came along, probably jealous of the attention the baby gets  :)
Little Blue

langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
  • The Happy Smallholder!
Re: looking for stud
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2010, 10:39:39 pm »
we are in tenby south wales.
one of them molly when she was dissbudded it was done wrong resulting in scurs ( this was done from where we bought them )
milly has no horns and no horn regrowth.
i am getting milly tested for cae as she is going to be first to be taken to a stud.
langdon :goat:
Langdon ;)

 

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