Might, might, might have two bottle baby bucklings sold. Guy wants to pick them up tomorrow - but I won't consider it a 'done deal' until he's driving away with them. I've never really enjoyed having bottle babies - they're too much work! I guess I should consider a lambar feeder if I ever really wanted to raise bottle babies.
While I was posting that ad on Craigslist I decided to list some of the ameraucana chick and the little male piglet. No bites on those yet. I don't much care if either of those sell cuz we'll just eat 'em if they don't.
I've been playing in the garden this morning. Had to re-plant some climbing beans so I found my package of red footlong beans and stuck those in the ground. The seeds are some I saved a couple of years ago so I hope they germinate for me. I'm also going to get my corn planted this afternoon.
It's about time to seriously start keeping an eye out on the rest of the pregnant does. Still have 8 to go.
Tomorrow is 145 days from one of the great buck escapes. A couple of the Kinder does are about ready to pop. My yearling Nubians I believe will wait until the end of the month when the timing is right for the OTHER buck escape. Geeze, I've never had a year like this one. I've always had exact breeding dates and it was always MY idea of which doe got bred to which buck. This 'surprise' style breeding is 'no bueno' in my book.
I've been giving this a lot of thought and I've decided that Nubian goats are just fragile. I never had these kind of health issues when I just had pygmy goats. They are strong, hardy little creatures who had a better self-preservation instinct than these bigger goats. Thinking of sticking with the littler guys from now on...maybe increasing the Nigerian Dwarf's for milk and just breeding the Nubians for mini's from now on. Of course, that would mean letting go of Dusty, my Nubian buck, which would be a heartbreaker. Except for the rut - he's the mellowest, most easy going buck I've ever owned.
Time to feed the babies....
