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qj as long as the fence is secure the goats would be fine with the cows, our go out with the ponies.

and the BUCKS (lol)  arent really mean . they just stink horribly. the pee on themselves (yes im being serious) and it makes thems mell horrible.  they are nothing like sheep rams.

another good milk goat is nubians. i LOVE them they are soo nice and great milkers (plus come in the biggest variety of colors)

and the egg problems i think it is bcuz of using chickens plus there is very little humidity in the air.

Hi Kevin!  How are ya?

Hers my current baby pics....

Toulouse  (named sqeeky - like ski key - by 6 year old Julia after how he sounded yesterday)

Heres the bator babies, all crashed out and putting feet into each others faces.....  (3 sebs and 1 toulouse here)

i think im gona loose pip.

she just looks like shes failing to thrive.

shes weak and lethargic.

My hubby always says, if we were to move anywhere.... He wants to go the Australia.  He has distant family there still.  Im like ..... Okay count me in!   They could use a little Jazmine Flavor there I think
 

Hey Quackers! 

I have been researching goats too ! You & I are too funny.  I use it to feed my puppies when they are born.  & I am a dork when it comes to research, So I have been looking at ~ Keep, Care, Size, Feed, Cream content, temper, resell value to...  etc. 

I was looking at

Toggenburg

Oberhasli

Nigerian Dwarf crossed with a Toggenburg

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/goats/

I want to make soap, cream cheese, butter, & other goodies !

I had a nubian who we bought at an auction and I bottle raised.  My parents even let her sleep in a box by my bed (and in it) until she was a month old.  We were good buddies.  That said, OMG where do I start?  Could not milk that goat for anything.  Compltely impossible.  She was soooo interested in me and other people, or perhaps ticklish, but she fought milking until we gave up and made her offical goat mama.  I loved her dearly, but my Saanans were much more reasonable.  In fact, every other goat before and since was much more reasonable.  She was simply a goat that was a character, and thought she was people.  If she was out grazing, and saw me in a lawnchair, she would come running top speed and jump into my lap.  I was toppled by a Nanny many times when I was 12.  I guess I shouldn't have held her in my lap so much.....

 

My neighbors still have not said anything to me about their dog killing my goose.

  Heres a pic of my assisted shrink wrap Giant Toulouse.  Had to open him last night, but he's been streching out on his own today.  He did only have his head out a bit.

well i have good and bad news.

ICu baby #2 is all better. dried off, up on her feet and moving around. so she was moved to the brooder.

on the other hand babies #1 & 3 died in the night.

and as for flippy, he is fading fast. hoping he passes on his own.

good luck "catching up"!    Sometimes you just have to go straight to the end and say, "What'd I miss?"

here PIP QJ. =)

pip next to bobbys favorite duckling.

he has 2 distinct eye stiped.

Hi everyone!

  I made it back safely from my trip.  Unfortunately while was gone my husband's favorite duckling drowned .  Somehow it jumped into the kiddie pool and either couldn't get out or it was pushed under by a bigger duck .  My DH was kind enough to not tell me during my trip so I could enjoy my vacation.

  On a lighter note my chickens left me an Easter egg hunt.

My sebs are all coming out on their own now!  Only 4 hours of theatre later, (minus one coffee break and a 15 minute catch BYC Fix) and here we have SEBBIES!  All hatching and no visable yellow yolk on them far as I can tell w/o messing with them a lot.

The one stretched out in the middle is a Giant Toulouse, and the one not dragging himself out is the little toulouse.  He's just not as caught up as the others are.  Guess I'll call him pokey.

No, you say: "I'm going to check the letters".

Footpath is the correct name for a sidewalk.

Guess what???? I now have MORE SAUCE THAN YOU CAN POKE A BURNT STICK AT!!!!!!!

Before..........

....and after!!!

HOW AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note that I just used sauce coloured font.

Thankyou QJ, that is a completely, wonderfully, fabulously generous gift and I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE RIBS THIS WEEKEND

I'm going to start with the Bigg's sauce: "Voted Lawrence's Best Barbeque!"

Crikey, I am so excited about ALL THIS SAUCE.More sauce than I EVER KNEW EXISTED IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

Sorry about all the capitals but I am SO BLOODY EXCITED ABOUT THE SAUCE.

Hello.  Here are some pics of the baby Anconas that hatched on Easter.

LOL, yes, but only a few kinds. For example, I can get Sweet Baby Ray's locally but I have to get KC Masterpiece online (and they don't have many flavours). The other ones are not available. People just don't do barbeque here like they do over your way. Honestly, I am totally thrilled about all this sauce.

Not particularly relevent to sauce, or hatching, but here is a photo of me and hubby taken a couple of weeks ago. We went segwaying around the lake in the middle of Canberra. Please note my thread-appropriate t-shirt.

Hey.. Who on here has goats? My friend brought me some goats milk and I am in LOVE with it.  It was absolutely amazing. We chugged 2 glasses down. (me and the 8 yr old.)

I'm making butter from the cream right now in a mason jar.

I need to buy a goat.

Sauce and plastic bags...you scored big time!  Kind of like Christmas in April, lol
 

I have 3 Nigerian Dwarf does I'm wanting to sell 

What a goat that starts with an "A".  That's what this milk was from.

Awesome!  I bet they were excited about that.

I gotta go to bed.  Have to get up earlier to get my oil changed so I can drive to Decatur, Tennessee.   I get to meet DG!  Woo Hoo!!

WARNING: Rant ahead

ok so i broguht in aall the eggs.

4 from under the red hen in the barn

and 10 from the black hen in the shed.

i have a couple ext pips but nothing big.

and all but 1 was internally pipped.

i decided to give everyone an ext pip.

the ones that had 1 i opened it up a tiny big more.

EVERY BLEEPING egg was shrink wrapped.

and i dont mean just a little. i mean sheet white papery internal membrane.

so i opten to help the one that wasnt internally pipped last.

he was shrink wrapped 2!!

so i ext pipped him and int pipped him 2.

he literly gasped for air.

im glad i helped him.

i now have a bator full of lively peeping eggs.

Hi Kevin!  How are ya?

Hers my current baby pics....

Toulouse  (named sqeeky - like ski key - by 6 year old Julia after how he sounded yesterday)

Heres the bator babies, all crashed out and putting feet into each others faces.....  (3 sebs and 1 toulouse here)

i think im gona loose pip.

she just looks like shes failing to thrive.

shes weak and lethargic.

I have family there too, and almost moved there in my twenties.  I decided not to when I found out 7 of the worlds 10 deadliest snakes live there.  Oh, and some wicked spiders.  Now, I think maybe England or Canada.

 

Hopefully i did this right: Here's my 6 ducks and some pictures of the eggs during the process. I hope the link works.

http://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/album/view/id/6196693/user_id/133275

Thanks for the info! I want creamery yumminess ~ I have an automatic antique butter churn I want to use.  My hubby works at a dairy place, & brings me fresh cream off the seperator ~ MAKES amazing BUTTER!! & whipped cream & da bomb in the coffee!

I was looking in my PC & new I saved this link

http://www.hobbyfarms.com/images/media/pdfs/dairygoatchart.pdf