Re: New Babies!
Posted by: dabanks <dabanks@...>
(besides the freezer!;) for the little boy, send him this way!! CUTE! 2 of
mine are Saanen/Nubian cross....cute guys and soo gentle.
What a story about your friend! Our Lord is good.
What a day this has been for you. When are you expecting Dave to pull in the
driveway? Take care, Julie
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Haley" <dhaley@pinenet.com>
To: <homesteadheaven@weloveGod.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] New Babies!
> This is turning out to be an interesting day for me. Many of you may
> remember last year that I waited and waited for my favorite doe Dilly to
> kid. She never kidded. She had aborted early on and we thought she'd
bred
> back but didn't. She didn't breed back until the fall and blessed us with
a
> doe kid and buck kid this past February. Well...unknown to us...Dilly
> somehow made contact with our buck Thor before he left to go to his new
home
> on May 15th. Thor apparently bred her in April. We had two very nice
kids
> born a hour ago. A buck kid and a doe kid. It is a rather interesting
> phenomena to note. I have friends that have had goats for years and never
> had fall kiddings like this unless they worked very hard to make it
happen.
> I now know of at least 8 people that had unexpected breedings of does and
> all due to kid within a month. This will keep many in milk through the
> winter. I was mentioning this to a friend of mine in TN that has raised
> goats for a long time. She was lamenting that she hadn't had a buck on
her
> place for a year and sort of took a year off from breeding. All of her
does
> had been dry for 6 months or more. That she would not be one of us is milk
> this winter. I off handedly said...well...if God wants you to have milk,
> He'll give you milk, even if He just brings a doe back into a lactation
> without kidding.
>
> Guess what happened? One of her does dropped an udder and suddenly
started
> producing a quart a day...this happened this week...kind of interesting
> huh?....Deanna
>
>
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