We are going to the Brenham Dairy Goat Show Saturday so today was my second clipping day. I am still not finished so tomorrow will be my third clipping day. I hate clipping goats but it has to be done. This is Dotcom. Named dot since she has a brown dot on the top of her neck which you can't see from the side. Otherwise she is white. Dotcom is an Experimental from my wattle line. Every descendent of Pug Muffin has wattles.
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I think I am safe with posting this picture since my son is in Ranger School in the Mountains of Georgia with no access to technology. This was on his 8 hour pass after completing the first phase. Can we say sleep deprived? Ranger School has not been easy for me. I joined a parent support group and I think I was better off not knowing what they had to do to survive the program. BUT I am sure is wishing me a Happy Mothers Day by mental telepathy and I thank him for being such a good son. Spoiled rotten as an only child of older parents but none the less, a good son. And I raised him on goat milk which explains him being a math genius since he certainly didn't inherit that from his parents. So YEA for goat milk. This is Texas-T Style Catalyst, an AI son of Companeros Lots of Style. He was bred by Pat Thornton from Midlothian, TX. We traded buck kids last year and I was certainly pleased when I finished clipping my boy for the Big Buck Bonanza in Weatherford. Plus he was the best behaved of all the bucks I clipped today. Thank goodness at least one of them acted nice. I completed my second owner/sampler DHIA milk test this past weekend. Both of these girls had buck kids on them so I had never actually seen them with a full udder. Both are first fresheners sired by Lynnhaven KT A TX Tornado. Cowgirl on the left milked 9.6 pounds and Cherry on the right weighed in at 90 pounds and milked 7.7 pounds. High point girl was Patteran Lil Xona with 12.7 pounds. I am very proud of these does and the work involved will be worth it for them to earn their milking stars.
We affectionately call this the piranha pen. They are the oldest group and we have started the weaning process by feeding milk only in the evening. We have reached the point where neither one of us wants to go into that pen carrying a lambar full of milk. It isn't safe so as of today they are weaned. And from the look in their eyes they are NOT happy!! |
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October 2016
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