[Ag-eq] Mew acquisition: was: Re: Is this WINTER?

Tue May 27 12:10:00 UTC 2014

Years ago, my brother, sister and eventually I wanted goats. Caleb and Kelly
got 2 kids each. An Alpine and an Alpine cross a peace. Kelly's Alpine had
the goat's equivalents to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the first
night; and Caleb's Alpine strangled itself. So then we had Flopsey--a Nubian
X Alpine cross, and Mercedes--a LaMancha X Alpine cross. 

Mercedes and Flopsey, along with Hamlet the pig, who we all raised from
bottle babies, made quite a trio, respecting no fences, stopping traffic,
and eating the sweet corn right from our road-side stand. Hammy went to the
big pasture in the sky that fall, so we told Kelly, (grinning evilly face),
and the girls went to a neighbor's place with a breeding buck. We liked the
pure-bred Nubian kids so much, and mom and dad already had goats, so why not
more. So in addition to breeding our own does, we took home two Nubian kids,
Coca and Skipper--this time I got a goat. Well Mercedes had twins, but
Flopsey only pretended to be pregnant. She actually uttered up, but started
to un-udder eventually. 

So Flopsey went to visit/live with Hammy. Skipper was my project. He was
going to be my harnessed pulling weather. Skipper had other plans however,
and chewed everything, including his master's arm. That was the final straw,
and Skipper went to visit Hammy too. Anyone seeing a pattern here?
(Demonically grinning face) 

So now we had Mercedes = alpha doe, and Coca = subordinate doe. We bred them
again. This time Coca has 2 adorable twin buckling's, and Mercedes has 3
terrible triplets. We never milked the does. Eventually Caleb and Kelly
decided goats weren't as much fun as cows and Grampa took them to live at
his place. No not to visit Hammy, but to live at Grampa's farm. 

And that is my goat story. 

Zac

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Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 10:08 PM
To: Jewel; Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Mew acquisition: was: Re: Is this WINTER?

Jewel:

All my goats have candy names.  There's Lollipop, Carmel, Skittles, Tootsie
Roll
and Necco.  I used to have Jellybean, who was Necco's mother.  They were my
original goats; they are Toggenbergs.  Jellybean died a couple of years ago,
she was very old.  The rest are all Nubians.

Nella
Quoting Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:

>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:13 PM
> To: <nfoster at extremezone.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Is this WINTER?
>
>     I have been wanting to get back to having my own goat's milk for some
> time, but I have not had a
> buck for years and Heidi is rising 6 years, so is too old to start having
> kids and those that I have
> seen on TradeMe are either too expensive for my skinny pocket,have gone by
> the time I see the ad, or
> are too far away, but, on Saturday, I came across one that fitted my
> requirements, she is, as yet,
> unmated 3 quarter Nubian, is an affordable price and the present owner
will
> have her mated to a
> purebred Nubian and will deliver her.
> Some of you will know that finding suitable names for animals is one of my
> small passions, and as
> the doe does not have a name yet, it allowed me to give her a choice of my
> own, and that is Mali.
> For some reason, I thought that the Nubian desert was in the republic of
> Mali, but I find that it is
> not.  The Nubian is the western part of the Sahara and is in Egypt and the
> Sudan, but I didn't fancy
> calling her Egypt or Sudan, so even though Mali is not quite as
appropriate
> as I had thought, it is
> a nice name so Mali she will be.
>
>
>
>         Jewel
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <nfoster at extremezone.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:08 AM
> To: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>; "Agricultural and Equestrean
Division
> List"
> <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Is this WINTER?
>
> Jewel:
>
> Sorry to here about the water feature in your house.
>
> I have an on going leak problem.  Twice the roofer thought he fixed it,
but
> then
> it's leaked again.  We haven't had rain in so long that it hasn't
mattered.
> The
> next time it rains the roofer says he will come, get into the attic and
> hopefully find the leak.  Then I will need to get the roof fixed and then
the
> ceiling in my bedroom.
>
> When it rains I've had to move the furniture around and put out pots for
the
> water.  I hate that ping ping sound in the pots.  Now the cieling is
sagging
> and it is going to be such a mess to rip it out and replace it.
>
> I want to refinance my house, but I can't until I get this fixed.  Oh, the
> joys
> of home ownership!
>
> I hope everything else is going well for you.
>
> Nella
>
>
>
> Quoting Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:
>
> > When I put Guideon out at 7 this morning, I found a large pool on the
> carpet!
> >  No!  it did not come
> > with the compliments of G, but from the sky and then via the roof.
> > One of the weaknesses of the type of roof that I have:  2 gables with a
> gully
> > between them:  is that
> > if the guttering is bllocked, as it was this morning, with snow, the
water
> > that should have escaped
> > by way of the downpipe, creeps up the gully until it reaches the lower
edge
> > of the 2nd row of iron
> > sheets and it gets under it and makes its way into the house.
> > There have been periodic waterfalls from this weakness, but not for a
long
> > time.
> > I put a  couple of buckets under the leaks and one of them collected
about
> an
> > inch of water, but it
> > is all fine now, fpor the moment anyway!
> >
> >         Jewel
> >
> >
> >
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