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Kris5902 said:
Thanks, but I could go on, and on, and on on the genetics and line breeding and such forth. What we have done with domesticating animals and over breeding for “desirable” traits like multiple Births and large offspring, but sheep and I assume goats (I should flip my baby over and check but she’s peacefully sleeping), only have two teats; so with triplets or more someone always gets shorted on feeding. They are also much smaller and have slower growth rates... at least from what I have seen in our flock.

So, is the additional animal ‘head’ really “worth” it in a slow, pastured based system for meat in the long run? They are also higher maintenance, needing bottle supplementation, and are significantly smaller animals actually worth the extra work, chance of losing the ewe, and the smaller size and growth rates on all of the siblings? I’m thinking (when I have more influence on the operations here) of looking at working on eliminating triplets and Quads. And monitoring the Hybrid vigor and large single lambs that have exceptionally hard births and sometimes results in the death of both lamb and ewe?
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That little goat seems to be growing pretty quick. Is she still on the bottle? How old will she wean?
 
Kris5902 said:
Thanks, but I could go on, and on, and on on the genetics and line breeding and such forth. What we have done with domesticating animals and over breeding for “desirable” traits like multiple Births and large offspring, but sheep and I assume goats (I should flip my baby over and check but she’s peacefully sleeping), only have two teats; so with triplets or more someone always gets shorted on feeding. They are also much smaller and have slower growth rates... at least from what I have seen in our flock.

So, is the additional animal ‘head’ really “worth” it in a slow, pastured based system for meat in the long run? They are also higher maintenance, needing bottle supplementation, and are significantly smaller animals actually worth the extra work, chance of losing the ewe, and the smaller size and growth rates on all of the siblings? I’m thinking (when I have more influence on the operations here) of looking at working on eliminating triplets and Quads. And monitoring the Hybrid vigor and large single lambs that have exceptionally hard births and sometimes results in the death of both lamb and ewe?
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That's a cute goat!😍 We have one that looks like that.
 
Egg Snatcher said:
Pikachu, one of our baby does that wasn't supposed to get pregnant had her baby girl. Wish I went out sooner so I could of saved her. The baby froze.

@Mmanist how's your chicks?
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I'm down to one cutie. My black silkie die yesterday. Mom been going to roost it must of fell off in the night and froze too. Its been in the teens at night here
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Here's something to cheer you guys up! I found Rebecca a friend! My cousin named her that.😂 My little chicken that waddle is kind of skinny and with single digits and negatives I didn't know if she could survive it. Anyway... My little chicken snuggles with her and let's Rebecca kiss her on the beak.
 

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