We have babies!

[IXEL]

Ruby, my big Boer doe,finally had her babies!  She had 3 kids on 9-2-10, 2 does and 1 buck. 1 of the does names is Gida (meaning Jade), she was 6.2 lb. The other doe is Bijou (meaning Jewel), she was 7.2 lb. And the buck is Hans, it really suits him because he was about 12 lb! I am going to use Hans as my market project this year, and I will keep 1 doe and sell the other to a friend. I am also happy that we did not have any problems this time, usually that doesn't happen. I have not taken any good pics of them yet, so I will take some tomarrow and try to post them. I am just so excited! 

Any way, I said about 2 months earlier that I would post pics of Ruby a coupple of days before she kids. Here they are! Poor Ruby, she is actually a fairly logs doe, but she is so bug that it makes her look short!  Also these pics just do not do her justice, in real life she was a good 3-5 inches bigger in the tummy. Also her udder grew 3x the size it is in this pic in the next 2 days!  

[IXEL]

"...she is actually a fairly logs doe..."
Sorry, the word is ment to be long, not logs.

"...so bug..."
that wourd is ment to be big.

As you can see I forgot to use spell check! lol

[Squires]

Congratulations!

   :happbirthday

[buckrun]

That is great ALexis- do you bolus?
This goat should not have all that swirly hair.
This is the first indication of copper deficiency.
Remember to worm her right away now that she had kidded and I would boost her copper so she slicks out and gets a nice coat for winter and can convert her chow better too. Congrats on the smooth kidding.
Lee

[wheytogosaanens]

Congrats Alexis.

Actually Lee, some Boers have swirly/long coats and some have slick coats.  We have some of both - all wormed/fed/grown the same way, all healthy.  And Boers also have a wooly kind of undercoat (pain in the patootie to trim the really wooly ones) which is great for catching alfalfa leaf in, again a pain to get clean/trim for show!  LOL

Interestingly enough, the does that we have that grew up in Texas have more of the slick coat, the ones born here - tend to have more wool - hmmm, perhaps because it gets so much colder up here?!  

The advice to worm right away is a good one - and extra copper is needed up here, unless you have a superior mineral.

Glad you got a wether prospect!

Camille 

[Caprine Beings]

I know Alexis is bolusing:) I gave her the copper. And she upped Ruby's selenium this year too. You know why it was much easier for Ruby this year right Alexis?
Congrats on your babies:) I didn't know you had one sold already...DARN! Thats good meat!
No bottle babies this year YAY!
Tam

[Vicki McGaugh Tx Nubians]

Congrats!

And wow MOUNTAINS in the background, I so miss mountains, the tallest thing around here is an oak tree in my front yard   And flip flops, really?  Your young though, I had to stop wearing my flipflops out in the goat pen when a doe stepped on the back of mine and sent me nose first into the grass

[buckrun]

I have raised Boers and they all were slick all the time long hair or short.
They did have an undercoat that shed out in spring but it just made them fluffier not multi directional.
My belief is that the animals with swirled coats need MORE copper than the others who slick out on normal dosages.  What most would consider overdose.  I have tested this in my Nubian herd with haywire coats because I refuse to look at it and they WILL slick out. I realize most people clip all this off and so really don't know they are looking at a deficient animal. I also helped a nasty looking Boer herd here locally just completely saturate with copper and they changed from really scary looking to well....nice!  The extra wool should not displace the overcoat. Just like dogs- horses and people- the first indicator of ill health is skin and hair. The smallest imbalance will show up in hair because nutrition is shunted to more important systems during shortages.
Lee

[Nana]

I would like to see the little ones.  Please post a picture.

[Ozark Lady]

Congratulations on the happy family, and safe delivery!

[mabeane]

   OH, babies...I have to wait until Christmas.
Congrats!

[buckrun]

Alexis - rather than hijack your birth announcement any further I am sending Tammy some links and a chart about mineral bioavailability.  Ask her to pass it on to you via email. The chart won't post here I have tried before in another thread but using it with the info in the links will show you there are other complex interactions affecting coat quality in addition to copper deficiency. Sent you some info via PM as well.
Congrats again!
Lee

[IXEL]

Actually my mom was wearing the flip-flops, lol! I was wearing my muck boots. lol

[IXEL]

Ok here are the baby pics!





This is Bijou.

[Drycreek goats]

They are so cute.Your wether looks ready for the fair already.Good luck with them.Tammy

[IXEL]

This is Gida. I don't have any pics of her standing up because she doesn't use her hind legs very well, but today she was running around a bit. I am doing therapy with her so that she stands up straight, and not on the knuckles(I forgot what that part is called) of her hind legs.



This is Hans, I told you he was a beast! And in the first pic he is not even 1 hour old!


And here are all the babies sleeping together after feeding off of mom and have warm, full tummy's!

[IXEL]

They are so cute.Your wether looks ready for the fair already.Good luck with them.Tammy

Your funny! lol Bijou is a doe! Hans will be my wether. You make me laugh! lol lol

[doublebowgoats]

They look great! Congratulations!

[Nana]

They are just the cutest little goats.  Thanks for showing us the baby pictures.  Makes me want to buy that kind of goat.

[Legend Hills]

Congrats on the little ones. They look so cute.

Kim