YESTERDAY LEVAN RIDGE FARM PRINCESS LRX17 HAD FIVE KIDS. IF THEY HAVE FIVE WHEN YOU GET THEM PREGNANT WHILE THEY ARE STILL NURSING I DON'T THINK I WILL PUT A DOE THAT IS FLAGGING IN WITH THE BUCK NEXT TIME. FOUR OF THE KIDS MADE IT TROUGH THE NIGHT. WE PICKED UP TWO NEW NUBIAN MILK GOAT THAT ARE IN MILK TO HELP FEED THE BOTTLE BABIES.
BROUGHT HOME THE WETHERS THAT ARE GOING TO COUNTY FAIR AND STATE FAIR BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE TAGGED NEXT WEEK AND WE WEENED THE EWES AND DOES THAT NEEDED TO BE WEENED. ON 5/18/13 WE TRIED A.I. ON SOME OF THE DOES AND DID LIVE COVERAGE WITH GOLD DIGGER ALSO. WE FOLLOWED TH OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SERVICES PROCEDURE WHICH USES CIDRS THEN AT DAY SEVEN LUTALYSE, THEN ON DAY NINE CIDR OUT AND 2CC OF PG 600 THEN BREED ON DAY 11. WITH THIS ON DAY 10 WE PUT SOME OF THE DOES IN WITH A BUCK FOR BREEDING AND ALL OF THE DOES WERE BEING VOCAL AND MOUNTING EACH OTHER. THE DOES THAT WERE PUT IN WITH THE BUCK WERE BREED MULTIPLE TIMES, AND WHEN WE DID A.I. WE HAD GOOD FLUID ON ALL DOES AND HOPE SOME OF THEM GOT BREED. WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF DOES THAT WE GAVE A SHOT OF LUTALYSE AND ELVEN DAY LATER WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER SHOT OF LUTALYSE AND PS600 THEN PUT THEM IN WITH THE BUCK. THE LAMB WETHERS THAT ARE OUT OF THE SOUTHDOWN BUCK HAVE GREAT TOPS AND RUMPS WILL BE SHEARING THEM SOON TO REALLY SEE HOW GOOD THEY LOOK. AND PRINCESS IS GOING TO HAVE KIDS THIS WEEK, SHE CAME INTO HEAT IN JANUARY WHEN SHE WAS STILL NURSING HER KIDS SO WE PUT HER IN WITH GOLD DIGGER AND SHE GOT PREGANT.
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