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Thursday, May 24, 2012

animal farm




I think this is a Saaren goat. PJK?

I stopped to buy some plants the other day and they had a lot of goats as well as chickens and ducks and pigs and roosters running around too (laying around in the case of the pigs). Not sure what kind of baby goats these are but they were pretty god damn cute.




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6 comments:

pansypoo said...

no roosters?

the farmer said...

yeah there were roosters too. i have a rooster pic. i'll post it later.

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pjk said...

Yes farmer, the top one looks to be a Saanen. Not real used to seeing them with horns.

The babies fall into an Alpine background based on the ears, but you can cross breed (intentionally or not) between a few varieties.

Not 100% sure on ear appearance or spelling on Oberhaasle or Boer varieties; the la Manchas have more of the Lack of an external ear, and Nubians are big, droopy ears like Deputy Dawg.

We have (I think) a doe kid this year that has semi-unique "elf/pendulous" ears as a result of such goat lust shenanagains. Gotta hit the daughter up for a pic.

pansypoo said...

those are some fine chickens.

the farmer said...

There were two Saaren goats both with horns and a little one running around loose (i figure was also a Saaren because it was all white) that didn't have horns.

And two big grey Nubians with the droopy dog ears and long beards. But I didn't get a picture of them because I filled the picture card in the camera and didn't have a backup. There were turkeys and guineafowl too.

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pansypoo said...

oh, guinea hens.