Naaa. Naaaa.

porkchop48 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-05-2012, 07:49 PM

Since my other farming thread did not go well, lets try this one.

One of the nubian does bred to an alpine buck.

Two of the nubian yearlings bred to an alpine buck.

I love this pic of the two of them but do not know how to rotate it

One of the new Boers bred to an all black bbuck

The other nubian bred to the alpine buck ( phillip is the in the background)

The herd.

The apline buck AKA smelly

The other boer bred to a black buck.

markpulawski · #2 (**permalink**) 02-05-2012, 08:50 PM

So what type is that one that looks like veal?

EPI · #3 (**permalink**) 02-05-2012, 09:10 PM

Are you making your own cheese?

Manuran · #4 (**permalink**) 02-05-2012, 09:35 PM

salix · #5 (**permalink**) 02-05-2012, 10:38 PM

Your boers look like my new lakenvelders (hopefully), I have two dozen eggs coming next week.

Deb

Enlightened Rogue · #6 (**permalink**) 02-06-2012, 12:11 AM

Can you eat them?

John

Rusty_Shackleford · #7 (**permalink**) 02-06-2012, 02:19 AM

I'm surprised to see only one is named smelly.

Why did your other farming thread not go well? What could go possibly go wrong with a farming thread on a dart frog site?

Be careful of people writing you and telling you that you have really. Some people are really baaaaad.

porkchop48 · #8 (**permalink**) 02-06-2012, 09:17 AM

Ok I see a boo boo I could not edit. The two together are alpines not nubians.. Whoops.

MArk - That is phillip - He is a hereford/ angus steer calf. Well just became a steer. He just got banded last week. he stay at the farm will only be about a year and then he will be butchered as well. But in the mean time, he is grained daily, brushed daily and treated like a overgrown pet. Awesome little guy who comes running when he sees his grain bowl or you smack the empty bowl on the fence.

I do not make my own cheese yet. I hope to be able to make cheese, butter and soap. My does are all first freshers ( first time kidding) so I have not been able to milk any yet.

Manuran - Thank you for flipping the pic for me.

technically you can eat them. Well the boers are meat goats. The rest are daily goats. All are edible. The kids will be sold off as 4h wethers, does will likely stay here and the rest will be raised up and used as meat goats. My original herd will stay here though. Well as long as the kiddings go well and they are good milkers.

Deb - Now I have to go look up lakenvelders

I have a mix of mixes in the incubator right now for a friend. She said I can keep some that hatch.. darn it I do not need any more chickens.

The only one that smells is the buck, so he was the only one that really earned the smelly name. REALLY earned it. But he is coming out of rut so his smellyness is toning down. Good thing he is such a nice goat, the smell was awful. AWFUL

markpulawski · #9 (**permalink**) 02-06-2012, 06:37 PM

I think Phillip would be hard to kill if he came running when he saw you instead of the feed bowl...and as for the goats, cute kids.

porkchop48 · #10 (**permalink**) 02-06-2012, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by markpulawski

I think Phillip would be hard to kill if he came running when he saw you instead of the feed bowl...and as for the goats, cute kids.

Lets not talk about that.... As soon as I my jeep pulls in the driveway he starts heading to the top of the hill. I am in denial that it is just to be fed. He is a great calf but I will atleast know he was raised right and treated good. I will cry like a baby when the time comes.