Post by Oat Bucket Farm on Oct 2, 2010 16:59:33 GMT -4
Remember how I said we really didn't have a good shelter for a buck? Well we are going to be really busy getting one put up.
We were originally going to borrow a young Saanen buck from a some people we know to breed the girls to this year. But, I guess he isn't old enough or whatever because he is showing no interest in does in standing heat and they are also having a terrible problem with worms. They offered me the use of their Nubian buck but number one, I have no interest in Nubians and number two I don't want their buck to bring a worm load here.
So in the process of trying to figure out what we were going to do, I was talking to the lady I got Hershey from. Now although Hershey needed copper and cocci treatment it wasn't because her breeder didn't care, she was just new and on the learning curve and her goats are in good condition now. Anyway, I was talking to her and the sale of her young LaMancha buck fell through and she said we could borrow him to breed our girls.
So she brings him here this morning and we get talking about her still desperately wanting to sell him and he was so calm and doing so well here that we started talking about payment and she was willing to sell him to us and let us pay with a doeling back in the spring. Soooo, we now have a buck. A PB, registered LaMancha buck!
Tally has already stood for him twice and Lacey is flirting. Hershey is in full blown heat too but she is to small to be bred right now, so she is hanging out in the chicken pen while he runs with Tally and Lacey for the afternoon.
Here are pics of him. We named him Big Wig because the tuft of hair on his head reminded me of one of the rabbits in the book Watership Down.
Love is in the air
We were originally going to borrow a young Saanen buck from a some people we know to breed the girls to this year. But, I guess he isn't old enough or whatever because he is showing no interest in does in standing heat and they are also having a terrible problem with worms. They offered me the use of their Nubian buck but number one, I have no interest in Nubians and number two I don't want their buck to bring a worm load here.
So in the process of trying to figure out what we were going to do, I was talking to the lady I got Hershey from. Now although Hershey needed copper and cocci treatment it wasn't because her breeder didn't care, she was just new and on the learning curve and her goats are in good condition now. Anyway, I was talking to her and the sale of her young LaMancha buck fell through and she said we could borrow him to breed our girls.
So she brings him here this morning and we get talking about her still desperately wanting to sell him and he was so calm and doing so well here that we started talking about payment and she was willing to sell him to us and let us pay with a doeling back in the spring. Soooo, we now have a buck. A PB, registered LaMancha buck!
Tally has already stood for him twice and Lacey is flirting. Hershey is in full blown heat too but she is to small to be bred right now, so she is hanging out in the chicken pen while he runs with Tally and Lacey for the afternoon.
Here are pics of him. We named him Big Wig because the tuft of hair on his head reminded me of one of the rabbits in the book Watership Down.
Love is in the air