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Boer/ Nubian Kids for Sale

Mabel kidded today (May 29th) with triplets.   And, for the first time, I got to be present for the birth!  I am so glad to have finally gotten to be in on it.  And turns out, it was a good thing I was since the first kid was upside down.  It wasn't too much of a problem, but it would have been much harder on Mabel if I hadn't been there.  And we even got the whole thing on video.  (Which means that I will inflict it on my readers as part of the "Another Day with the Goats" series.)

The sire of these kids is Rejoli Farm's Ricky, ABGA registered 100% Boer.




 Here is a fullblooded Boer buckling from Ricky:


Mystic Dawn Luna (a.k.a. Mabel) is an ADGA registered American Nubian.

 Mabel is a good milker, and fun, friendly doe.  You can learn more about her on my Goats page.

The kids are for sale.  I will be keeping them with Mabel until they are a bit older, as she needs to be milked constantly, and the best way to accomplish this is to leave her greedy babies with her.  So I am planning to keep the kids until they are at least 6 weeks old, but am open to selling them as bottle babies if desired.  I will hold them with a deposit until they are ready to be picked up.  While they are here they will be handled a lot, and treated with the same care as our other animals.  I will wether the bucklings for free, if so desired.  I will also disbud them if they are not too old when I receive a deposit on them.

They may be registered as 50% Boers with the American Boer Goat Association if I can get a service memo.  The buck was sold after Mabel was bred to him, so there are a few issues to work out.  Let me know if you are interested in getting papers on these kids!

There are two bucklings and one doeling.  The doeling is not available.

These pictures were taken the day they were born.  For more recent photos of them, please visit this blog post:   http://mychickenscraps.blogspot.com/2014/06/more-kid-pictures-mabels-nubian-boer.html

The kid in the front with the Boer markings, and the red kid in the back are the bucklings.  The white kid lying down is the doeling.


Doeling-  (Not Available)





Bramble

(Sold)









Thicket

(Retained for family use.)








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