The mom is Nanny a Togenburg X Fainter mix and her daughter (from first kidding, had only one) Lil'Missy a Togenburg x Fainter (mother) X Fainter (father was full blooded) mix. She is half the size of her mother who is smaller then a regular Togenburg.
Lil'Missy just gave birth (first kidding, baby didn't make it. But she has been stripped of her plug and colostreum).
Nanny I believe is also pregnant but she does not look big enough to have more then 2, might just be 1 again. She has slack on her ligaments, so she is getting close if she is (I say if because I could be reading it wrong and she has had one before so they may just be slightly stretched from last time.)
They are small enough to be pets but Lil'Missy is shy and will not leave Nanny. Nanny too does not like being separated from Lil'Missy. They can be kept in 1 stall as because they are smaller then the normal size goats and eat roughly a flack a day of hay. I do give them cracked corn as well (only a little during spring, summer, and fall), but during winter they get more to help fatten them for the cold and sustain there weight. Do not look for it to replace your hay or rations, but it can sustain them if your short or sever weather keeps you from getting their normal rations/hay. I try to add other stuff in with it if that happens like, oatmeal oats, wheaties, all bran flakes or buds, what ever I can find to help if sever weather keeps us in for a bit until we can get to town. (I know this may not be the greatest option but they have not had any problems and are find). As they are small they do not need a lot so it helps when situations like that arise.
I wish I could bring them with me, but it would be to hard on them to move. Specially if I am right and Nanny is pregnant and kids any day, that would be a lot for them to deal with in 2 months or so. I just hope that this person that I am waiting on to get back to me, says yes. I trust her and I know her place and kids. They will take good care of them and love watching Nanny give birth. She also lives just down the road from me, so Nanny would not have to be move more then a mile if she is. Cross figures for me that she says yes. :)
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| Nanny after she had Lil'Missy |
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| Billy (Full Blooded Fainter) Lil'Missy's Dad. Died this winter. Photo taken shortly after Lil'Missy was born. |
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| Lil'Missy several days old. She was unexpected. I walked out to feed the animals and I looked down and said "That's not a chicken!"...lol So I made this shelter out of hay. Mom (Nanny) would not leave Billy. Had them separated but she kept finding was out of her pen to his. So had to build a divider in the pen but until then, a tarp and round half a hay bale worked. :) |
Lil'Missy is half her Mom's size now. :)
http://nmi.craigslist.org/grd/4354885716.html
My chickens are spoken for, Yeah.
They will be going to someone who lets them live as long as their life lets them (die from natural causes), she keeps them for the eggs. :)
