Well it looks like I have another Saanen doeling coming from fellow BYCer WisdomSeeker... Maybe two!
She did mean just this year, but I am having a hard time with her yoyoing back and forth on which goats I am supposed to be buying. She gave me the option to buy the Nigi doeling on the lease form and when I asked her about it she first said that yes, she is offering her for sale, but then did a 180 on me when I showed interest and said that they wanted her back!
She is driving me absolutely batty. Then she changes her mind yet again and says it's my choice which one I take (she knows I cannot afford both the loaner Nigierian and the Saanen Dam that is still showing, as she is asking $350 for each of them).
Here's the other thing;
When I went out to her place the first time, I fell in her goat paddock and broke my ankle. Well, she kinda got nervous we think, that I would sue her which I would never do- accidents happen- and she gave me a very expensive French Angora rabbit buck for free, mind you he was in horrible shape because she hadn't groomed him forever, but still....
While there I put a deposit on a proven Nigi Doe (A), and a Saanen doe (B) that I fell in love with who was so friendly and loveable and for sale, for $150. Considering I was about to shell out $400 for the other Nigi Doe A $150 looked really good, especially for a doe who was going to give me one gallon of milk, versus the Nigi who would only give a quart.
Time passes, two weeks prior to my bringing my new goats home she e-mails me and begs me to change my mind on Saanen doe B because her teenage daughter is very attached to her and cannot let her go. She tells me that she had her best milking doe give birth to triplet does and that she doesn't need to keep all three, would I like to take one as a replacement for Saanen doe B, for the same price $150, which she tells me is really good because this doeling (C) has much better lines than doe B.
I agree to take Saanen doeling C. Some further talking and she tells me that Saanen doe C's dam (D) will be for sale, and perhaps since I have a good sized family, I'd want to change my deposit from Nigi Doe A and Saanen Doe B to Saanen doeling C and her Dam D. For my trouble she tells me that I can have a free breeding on doeling C when she is ready.
Are you confused yet?!
Now to make things more complicated, Saanen doe C is available to come home anytime, but Saanen dam D is still showing and working on her milk star and won't be ready to come home until October-December 2009.
*Pants*
This puts me in a little bit of a delimma because I have no other goats at home. So she offers to "lease" me Nigerian doeling E to keep Saanen doe C company while I wait for D to be done showing and then E would go home to breeder, leaving me with C and D.
I take home C and E. I've had them 2 months now. I adore C, but my kids adore E even more. Thus I am semi excited when I see the option to purchase E on the lease form that she just mailed me.
I ask her about it. And she runs me around.
Here's what I think is going on. She only owns one Saanen buck, my doelings sire. When I asked her about who we would be breeding C to, she said it would either be a linebreeding back to her Sire, or she would have another buck by then.
I think she doesn't plan to buy another buck anytime soon and since she technically has two duplicates of my doe at home, why linebreed all three back to their sires?
A few days ago I answered an Ad on craigslist for two 12 week old Saanen doelings. I answered the Ad and low and behold, it was WisdomSeekers ad.
He called me tonight and offered me them. I talked to my husband who's head is also spinning with all this crap and he thinks it's a good idea to take one or both of his doelings, send my loaner Nigi back (SAD over this part) and be done with her.
What. A. Mess.
