Savingdogs-Saving the chickens

[Quail_Antwerp]

He's beautiful!!

 

[savingdogs]

ginger is such a hussy!

Worse than THAT, she is working side-by-side with her underage DAUGHTER right there. What a bad example she is being, they barely met.

 

[snapshot]

He looks like such a sweetie!!!!!!

 

[AnnaRaven]

Awwwww

 

[savingdogs]

He is doing really good! We had the skies literally open and drown us with rain almost from the minute we brought him home so it was harder to get him set up than we expected. It has been blazing hot and so dry here, my goats have been sleeping out in the open, and my "buck" pen (formerly the duck pen) had a little hut but the door was too small for a goat. We didn't expect him to need it so quickly though, it would not stop pouring rain. I went out and rigged Cody a little shelter with a tarp, and then this afternoon during a brief dry moment, Hubby ran out and adapted the duck door to Cody-sized. He ran in there pretty gratefully! He is stinky but he wants to be petted and loved on, such a nice little guy. So far we have kept the girls in the pen next to him but not with him. I'm pretty sure they are not in heat yet, but I think smelling him will make them start going back in. He doesn't realize he is alone, they keep hanging out right next to him at the fence line (where they never hung out before). They also did great free-ranging today and didn't wander off.....they want to stay close to the fourth goat, the little hussies. Ginger keeps finding a reason to point her arse towards him.

I actually really really like him and I'm wondering about keeping him instead of selling him Freemotion-style. If the pen arrangement works out, I may at least keep him two seasons. But I feel like he improves my line of goats so much, since my original two does are registered, with him as the stud I can sell registered MDGA goats, and him being a 5th generation mini nubian, bred to my first generation minis, he will really put a mini nubian stamp on my goats offspring. His parents were both the same color as Molly, that would make hubby very happy to have a baby Molly again. And I got to try out his mom's udders, she is a really good milker and I liked her udders a lot. Emilee is too small to use him her first time, but maybe the second time, it would be okay. I would want her to be over two years old first though.

But it wasn't like he was a huge investment, I only paid 100.00 dollars for him. I don't think the seller knew what she could get for him, or it wasn't important to her (they needed him gone because the new buck was movin' in).

 

[freemotion]

I actually really really like him and I'm wondering about keeping him instead of selling him Freemotion-style.

Guess what. Freemotion did just that and now she has to sell a buck she is fond of because cuteness wore off and he is a handful and stinks to high heaven and he eats a LOT! I'm going back to a yearly buckling "freemotion-style!"

 

[justusnak]

What a pretty boy you have there! Congrats!!!!!

 

[savingdogs]

Well my does are managing to absorb his scent through the FENCE.....I washed udders about three times this AM and the milk is fine but THAT wasn't a pleasant discovery.

I had a hilarious moment in the middle of the night. I have a play-toy that was a dog house sitting in the doe's pen, it was left there from when we had kids because they liked to jump on in and frolic like the kids do. Molly has never gotten upon it. But LAST night the motion sensor goes off so I look outside to see what set it off, and I see Molly has decided that Cody would have a better VIEW of her behind if she stands upon the dog house, so in the middle of the night she was showing off her tushie to the moon!

 

[Javamama]

 

[valmom]

He is awfully cute! It won't be long for the girls to come into heat with him around. I didn't know buck stink could be that much of a nuisance or that it could go through a fence to the girls.