Goats

Hi! I'm Megan and I am writing about our goats. We currently have nine goats: Kari, Maddie (Kari's daughter), Windy, Wroxy, Vega, Tuck, Rose, Tori, and Abby... and of course, many more coming! We started out with just two little Pygmy goats: Abby and Willie. Then we got Kari, a Miniature Toggenburg, that resulted in having to sell Willie because he was being mean to poor, little bottle-baby Kari. Then came Vega, an 75% Oberhasli 25% Alpine doe. Nicole then got two Boer goats to sell in the county fair auction... Rose and Kip. They did not get sold, so we sold dear Kip, and we kept Rose as a breeding doe, who soon became a two-years-in-a-row champion at the county fair. The next year, Nicole got two more market goats, Kippy and "Blue-Tag". Unfortunately, Blue-Tag died, and Kippy was sold in the auction that year. Since my little sister, Hailey, had issues with selling Kippy, we bought a 75% Alpine 25% Oberhasli doe, Windy. Soon following Windy, we got a breeding Boer doe, Victoria (Tori). After that, Rose, Kari, and Vega gave birth to a total of eight kids. Kari gave birth to a doe named Maddie and two boys named Fox and Bunny. Rose gave birth to three boys, which sadly, two of them were born still born. The other kid is named Spud. And Vega gave birth to a cute, fuzzy, little girl named Ella, and a cute, fuzzy, little boy named Tuck. Eventually, Fox, Bunny, Ella, and Spud were all sold. Fox and Bunny were sold to our neighbors, Spud was sold as a buck, and Ella was sold to the owner of the sire. When county fair came up, (which may I say, our goats did VERY well there) I bought a Miniature Nubian, Wroxy. We have four goats that are going to have babies this year, Kari, Windy, Wroxy, and Vega. We are all very excited for more little kids to play with! Check out the pictures of our goats this our blog!

Video of Nicole and Gus daubing at OHSET

OHSET - Day Two

Well, Sunday brought another great day for Nicole and her horse Gus at OHSET. She broke the Tri River Valley district record for steer daubing, just set last year, with a 1.23 second daub. Take a look at the video to see her and Gus daub that steer! As well, her team penning team took first place at the meet being the only team to pen cows for all three of their "goes".

OHSET

OHSET stands for Oregon High School Equestrian Teams. Our oldest daughter, Nicole, participated in her first meet of the season today at a "somewhat local" county fairgrounds. She competed in gaming events and bettered almost every one of her times from last year. By the way, "somewhat local" refers to an hour's drive to get there. She has a blast running the gaming events with her friends she has met during the past three years participating in OHSET. This year her gaming events included the two-man birangle, barrel racing, individual flag race, figure 8 stake race, keyhole race, and Canadian team flag race. We'll be there tomorrow as well for the cattle events: steer daubing, roping, and team penning. GO NICOLE!!!

Wroxy - Miniature Nubian Dairy Goat

What’s black, white, and a little obnoxious? Our miniature Nubian dariy goat, Ober D’ Rainbow PD Wroxy. Even though Wroxy is a little vocal at times, she has been a great addition to our herd. Showing, breeding, and just owning her has been a great experience.



Two years ago at the Clackamas County fair, one of the 4-H members in our club was selling off all of her goats, and one of them just happened to be Wroxy. She was a yearling at the time and of all things had been raised by a Pygmy goat mother. The decision to add to our herd was rather sudden but it all worked out. Since Goat Princess was set on breeding and raising minis, and Wroxy’s owner was heartbroken because she had to sell all of her goats, Goat Princess insisted on the purchase of Wroxy. She agreed to pay for her herself, and we took her home a few days after fair ended. It took quite awhile for her to be accepted by our other does, but she soon found comfort from our Alpine doe Windy, and they became fast friends.

That fall, we bred her to a Nigerian dwarf dairy goat named Ben, and on March 30th and 31st, she had three kids. Around 11:55 pm on March 30th, she kidded a buckling named Romeo. At about 12:05 am on the 31st of March, she kidding a doeling named Juliet. About ten minutes later, she had yet another, but stillborn, buckling. Wroxy has been a great mother and developed a nice udder. At the 2008 county fair, she and her doeling, Juliet, were taken to fair along with all of our other goats. Wroxy took first in her class and Juliet took second place in hers.



After fair we bred her again to Ben, and on April Fool's Day this year, she gave birth to two doelings, Renesmee and Bella. She once again is proving to be a great mother with a very nice udder.



As you can see, Wroxy has become a valuable member of our herd. She has turned out to be a good breeding doe and an attentive mother, two things you need to be thankful for. Our herd wouldn’t be the same without her.