ooo names, that's a hard one lol
in terms of pricing, in your general area, im seeing $150-$200 for registered F1 mini Nubians...given them unregistered id start them around the $100-$125 zone...and see what happens.
your closer to the local market in terms of sales so youll be able to judge a little better for the local market, but in terms of online/website pricing that seems to be the starting zone.
their daddy was blue eyed, and his momma was a 4 star milker...(pure nigi-dwarf) so they should bring some good milk into lines if sold as bucklings.
Glad your enjoying the girls, I kinda spoilt them but I think whatever I did they do have amazing personalities
such sweet little love bugs and glad the babies have followed suit.
If I had anyone coming up this way in the enxt few weeks id take one of the boys myself lol they are adorable
I hope lilly is pregnant for you, never argue with more milk and it would be fun to see what color babies she has
right now, personally im a bit of a nervous nelly, the barn is as secure as it realy needs to be, anything trying to get in would have to climb about 8ft straight up and clib though a 12" gap in the eaves to get in (and that's after getting trhough 4 strand electric lol) but still...im such a nervous goaty mommy the first few weeks.
Pippin took an almost 10ounce bottle for supper but merry only took about 4 (she had a larger 4pm bottle though so) mum and sis gave their afternoon bottles and sis and dad gave the bedtime bottles (ill be doing the 8am feeds alone anyway so im not worried about bonding time...I realy want the girls to bond with everyone since they wont be just my goats, but im going to be the one doing all the work after the "OMG HOW CUTE BABIES!!!" thing wears off so I realy need to make sure I don't give away all my bonding time in favor of them bonding with everyone else...so im going to be setting aside morning feed and at least a couple of 1/2 hour sit and talk blocks per day just me and them to discus the days going ons and get to know eachother.
once the little male gets here ive got a feeling the novelty will wear off fairly quickly at that point.
gonna probably cut the girls back to 3 feedings a day come Wednesday anyway, they are certainly old enough to be on 3, and itll make my life easier...
they are certinaly cute, little Bilbo is supposed to be getting picked up tomorrow, but ive got a mini acquaintance whos got a doe due any min on an F2 mini...so im kinda...if she has a realy pretty buckling and the price is the same...hmmm lol.
but yeah...tomorrow ive got some gardening to get started on, got mum a rose bush for her birthday as a start to her garden, gonna bring down my "pond" and figure out where thigns are going. think im going to put a blueberry bush in that bed (weve got 3 that currently ned to find spots in the garden and 4 due to arrive from gurnseys
the 4 gurnseys will go in the berrypatch but the other 3 I kinda wanto scatter into beds for edible plantings
ive got to do some looking into edible perenials that I can mix in there too, im thinking daylilies and lavender, mabe some mints
so planning that is a job...got to also plan the orchard and berry patch, Easter weekend seems to be the start of fruit planting around here so...
keeping busy...im happy that weve got the goats but still feeling a little displaced...I think working in the garden will help.
