THERE Might Be A PROBLEM Breeding Our New BUCK To Our HERD!

[Music] Good morning, guys. Welcome to today's video. A miracle happened. A huge miracle. We got so much rain this morning. I hear babies crying. All the little boys running to me. And the little girl is crying for me. Sylvia will be so excited because she loves when they want to come to you. Oh, there she goes. Anyways, it poured last night or it poured this morning. Like absolutely poured. So, in a couple hours, I'm going to come out here and I'm going to pick out all these little cherry tomatoes and some ripe ones right there. Even over here, I got some ripe ones. Oh, he's so cute. He's so cute. You are so stinking cute, big guy. How does it How does it Oh, he feels pretty thick. Do you want me to? Are you looking for love? I always hate my voice when I do a baby talk, but I can't stop myself. Smells like somebody's in heat. I can tell because you stink like pee. Oh, he's peeing right now. Stop drinking his pee. That's disgusting. >> On your own face. >> He He just make him pee on your face. >> He just peed on his face. He just You know why he did it, though? He stuck his head in the other goat's pee. He's literally testing Oh, he's peeing on his face now. He's literally testing his pee, smelling it to see if he's in heat. He They can't differentiate between boys and girls, apparently. So, on the camera this morning, I saw somebody rip this off the wall. It's like the thing for the hose. Who was it? It wasn't you. It wasn't you. It wasn't you. It was him. I saw him pawing it till it came off. But look, I don't know if you guys can see. >> Oh, he sounds Get off. He sounds like a man, but his eye is all better, you guys. We're done the treatment and his eye is all better. Wow, it's gorgeous. Look. Did you guys see it? It's so pretty. He's got a nice blue eye again. Oh, that is so good, Sophie. We try and bring the babies in every day at noon and let them eat because they're slightly underconditioned. What does that mean? It means that they're at the bottom of the the herd so they don't get the choice food. So we always try and bring them in and make up for that so that they are >> these collars popping up from >> so that they have good health. He's going to be >> Where are these thick really good collars coming from? >> I don't know. Well, there's tons of them. >> They're popping. That one's bad. That one. >> Oh, see? >> Yeah. That's good though. You need them to be like that. >> Well, now if you grab your goat like here, give me your hand. Now, if you grab your goat and it goes, hold your arms. >> Well, you're not going to grab them that hard. >> They don't listen. You just hold them. >> That's good. I'm glad he's eating. The thing with his eye, I kept on saying like for days and days and days. I put that cream in there for like 3 weeks. I Every day it was like a little bit cloudy. A little bit cloudy. I didn't realize that I had to stop using the cream cuz just putting the cream in made the cream made it unc cloudy. But my friend said like, "It's going to be fine. It's going to be fine." It happened to her. Her her goat had an ulcer on his eye before and it came back normal. He's normal. His eye is normal. I I would never have believed it could happen. If it ever happens to you and you need my advice because just let me know and I'll tell you because it was so scary. It was so scary. But it there's just a cream that you get from the vet and it takes care of it. >> Eat green at night. >> Did he eat green at night? >> Yeah, cuz there was less. >> Okay. So, anyways, two things on today's agenda. So, we got to explain one thing and then we have to do one thing. So, these are the Bobsy twins. If you guys don't know, that was like a show in the ' 50s. I think it's an old lady expression. I don't know why I used it cuz it was beyond before my time. Anyway, these are the twins and they're going to the show and we got to shave them up. So, that's on today's agenda. But first, we have to explain who we're breeding to who. So, let's do that. This is Oreo. Oreo McFlurry. And he is our last buckling that we bought this year. And he is a Nigerian dwarf. Posie. He's a Nigerian dwarf and he is wonderful. He's not pole. That means that he grows horns and he has blue eyes. Stunning blue eyes. This is Toffee and we're going to breed him to her. The reason that we're going to breed him to her stop is because this little girl is pulled. It means that she doesn't grow horns. And because of that, we cannot breed her to another pulled goat. So, he's going to breed her. We're hoping that he's going to breed her and we're going to breed him to her. So, this girl is Zoe and she's not registered and she's a dark color. And so even though he has bright genetics, we wanted to kind of have we wanted to have babies with a lighter color. Her and this big mean girl right here. They're go with the best genetics on the farm. I want to breed everybody to him, but unfortunately we got to split it up to make it fair for those poor little boys. This is Nico. He's uh our second in command buck, and he is beautiful. He has got blue, bright blue eyes. Bright blue eyes. And he has one big moon spot on his neck, but he's brown and white, chocolate and white. And he has good genetics for a pulled goat. Not as good as Oreo, but he still has good genetics. I don't know if you can see it, but there's a big brown spot on his neck. And that brown spot is a moon spot. So just one moon spot, but he does have moon spots. He just has one. That big brown spot on his neck. kind of goes on the top of his head, too. They're like, "Are you in heat? Are you in heat?" So, he is pulled. He's pulled. He has uh blue eyes and he has one little and he has one giant moon spot. So, you cannot breed a pulled goat to a pulled goat because it can cause a hermaphodite. It's common in lots of breeds, actually. So, we are going to breed Hers. No, we are going to breed Nico to little Miss Lola here. And we're going to breed Nico to this sweet girl. This is Winnie. And she's going to be bred with Nico. The big goat to a big goat. >> All right. I'm wrong. I should have brought my list. >> This one. >> Who's she being bred to? >> Oreo. That one. Oreo. That one. Nico. >> Oh, okay. >> That one. Nico. That I don't know that. >> Okay. So, let's start fresh. The bigger goats free to the smaller. >> All right. So, this one also being bred to Oreo. This one being bred to Oreo. I think I said that. This little girl here being bred to to >> Nico. >> To Nico >> because she grows horns and he doesn't grow horns. So, we can breed those two together. And she's a smaller goat and he's a bit taller. not too tall, but we want to bring down his size a little bit in babies. So, we're going to breed him to her. And then also little Oakley over there. She's a nice small goat. And we're going to breed her to Nico and bring that size down a little tiny bit. That's our wish and our hope. Anyway, like any of >> can be bred to the bigger goats. >> Any of Nico's babies that are going to be taller, we're hoping to breed him to shorter goats so that they're shorter cuz we like a medium goat. Not a tall goat, not a short goat, just a medium goat. So, we're aiming for that kind of size like Lola's having Nico babies cuz I wanted to. >> All right. So, what do we have so far? >> Nico. Oreo. >> Oreo. Nico. >> Oreo. Nico. >> And who are we breeding her to? >> Gay. >> Yeah. >> Whoever your heart desires. >> Ziggy. Over in that far corner is last year's buck. He's a beloved buck. He gave us a lot of baby girls. Gorgeous, beautiful baby girls. He has amazing confirmation. He's well bred. We love everything about him and he's only getting not very many girls this year, but he's going to get bred to Tilly. This is the goat that he one of the goats that he's being bred to. She's hiding from me. Last year she got pregnant with one of his babies and we had a problem. It had its head back. I couldn't get it out. Called the vet. The baby didn't make it, unfortunately. So, she did have a Ziggy baby last year, but she didn't get to keep the Ziggy baby. And it was gorgeous. It was a light colored, beautiful baby just like all the rest of our other goats this year. So, we're going to rebreed her to Ziggy so that we can see what happens. This girl is already bred. If she isn't bred by some miracle, then she's going to be bred to Oreo McFlurry, our new guy. So, let's do a count. Oreo. Oreo. Oreo. Oreo. That's four for Oreo, right? Oreo has horns and all the goats that he's being bred to have horns except for except for Toffee who doesn't have any horns. And then she doesn't have grow horns either. And if she's not bred, she'll be bred to Oreo. So we got four goats for Oreo. Nico. Nico. Nico is pulled. These ones all have horns. You guys can't see, but right behind Toffee there, Nico has his eyeballs up to the fence looking to see who we're talking about. Who Who am I being bred to? So, Nico, Nico, and Nico. So, we got the new guy if he can do it cuz he's a pretty short, but he has a few months still to grow and he'll grow fast. So, Nico and Ziggy was short when he bred them all last year and he bred the big girls no problem. So, uh we have the new guy, Oreo McFlurry. He's got four girls this year. Nico, the new boy, Nico, who is our pool boy, has three girls this year. And then, who do we have for Ziggy? Tilly. We just have one for for Ziggy. And the problem is, even though he has really good genetics, we've seen what he produces with all these girls. So, >> and we can't breed him to his babies. >> And we can't breed him to his babies. Stop chewing my necklace, my bracelet. We can't breed him to his babies. So, it >> when Lola has babies, he can probably >> Yeah, but next year it'll all work out because we'll have babies that aren't his and that he can be bred to them. Wait, how does that work? It's complicated, you guys. The whole thing is complicated. But you know what's not complicated? Nap time. When you're a pig, you just lay beside your your girl's foot and then it's all good. So, those are all the babies. Four, 5, 6, 7, 8. And those are babies that we are only breeding as long as they hit the weight. They've reached every other requirement except for the weight gain. So, they're close to 30 lbs. Now, I'm going to get Sophie to help measure them this week and see what they actually are with like a proper scale for them. Um, but we won't be breeding any of the babies unless they're 30 lbs because that's how you get shoulder dystocia is when and shoulder distoas you can still get them out but it's tricky. So, we're definitely going to be waiting to make sure that they get to the right weight which is like 70% 70 I have it written down 70 or 75% of their full grown weight and Nigerians typically weigh a certain amount. So then we just base it off of that. 35 to 45 lb closer to and I've actually just heard that recently. Usually it's like 45 to 50 lb. So we're definitely going to be waiting to make sure that they're the right weight because we don't want any babies getting stuck. You would think that it would be like the measurements of their pelvis of all their bones in the back that would tell if they're going to have shoulder dystoia and get stuck. But it's actually their weight. You have to make sure that they're a certain weight to prevent that. So, that's the last little bit. And we won't be breeding our babies until they're 8 months old. Some people say 7 months old, but we're probably going to be waiting until they're at least 8 months old, maybe even 9 months old. But there's only one thing that's for sure. this girl and her other girl and her other girl will not be being bred this year at all because she's they're obviously way smaller than the others and they won't be ready this year. They were born later in the season. These girls were born in February. These girls were born at the end of April. All right, we're just waiting for this little guy to eat some hay. >> And then we're going to bring the baby girls in and give them some lunch time. He what? >> He isn't like standing and eating. >> I know he's a typical boy. He's lazy. Likes to lay down and eat his hay. >> How we're getting that little tiny goat to breed this giant goat. I have no idea, but I know it happened last year. We had a little tiny guy and he bred her perfectly. She had triplets this year. So hopefully it's going to work out. You might be wondering, why are we going to even keep three bucks if we don't if we're only going to use one buck for one dough? And like Sophie said, next year we'll have more babies and it and we'll need more bucks. All right. We probably won't need more bucks, but I like his genetics and I like the kind of babies that he makes. He makes nice, nicely put together babies. All right. So, what we're going to do is we're going to shave our babies for the show. And I'm going to use one of these things on top of the blade. We shave the boy with just the blade and and this is a blade cover or I don't even know what it's called. It'll make it be a little bit longer. I don't think I don't know which one we're going to use, though. All right. So, the reason that we're going to do it a little less short is because we're at the end of the season. Oh, Sophie, you can sit on this bench. I brought it down. >> I know. I've been sitting on it every day while we eat. >> Yeah, it's nice. This is going to be my stay. All right. So, like her legs, I shave all the way down, right? >> You're shaving her all the way. All of her >> all the way. Every single bit except Yeah. The tail we're going to do a little different. >> So, I'll leave the tail. >> Yeah. So, we're So, it's late in the season. You're supposed to shave. Oh, that's good. >> That's good. >> Yeah, I think that's good, actually. Yeah, I think that's perfect. Yeah, that's nice. That's actually perfect. Sophie literally has such a good head on her shoulders for goats. And she's not even as into the goats as she is into the horses. She loves them and she loves the babies, but she's not into the showing and stuff, which is so stupid cuz I want to show anyways. So, usually you you shave them like in May and then you don't shave them again. So the the shows that are like in September and October, you just go with your goat shaved from May. You don't have to redo it. You just leave it. So we're So to counteract that, we're shaving them now in August, but we're only going to we're not going to shave them straight down. So we're going to hopefully end up at the same air, same spot that our goats would be if we had done them in May. Does that make sense? They're just getting shaved. I don't have to worry about something being under the stomach when I showed that. >> I know girls are easier for sure. There's nothing under there that you have to worry about. Oh, she's looks like she's got a cut on her head. Maybe not. Just a sunburn. Can you reach that? Sophie, that's going to make me shave her. The thing about this goat that I don't love about showing her is that she's under condition. That's why we bring her in all the time. I keep coming over here so that I don't you guys aren't hearing the so that you guys aren't hearing the razors the whole time so loudly, but she's she's under condition. And I have been trying my we've been trying, you guys see, we come down every day at noon and put her in and give her grain. I've been giving her grain three times a day. We've been bleeding them in in the afternoon so that she they're forced to eat some hay. Like they are able to get to the hay and it's uninterrupted. Nobody's chasing them off. We bring them in, make sure that they're eating like, and then we sit with them in the morning and at night. We sit with them for for God only knows how long. I sit in that chair back there. >> Okay. >> And their legs have shorter hair, so I can't like >> Yeah. >> So, I don't know. >> I mean, I think the theory is to leave the legs a little longer anyways, but I sit in that chair. This is their grain. And we do it in the morning and the night. I sit with the girls at night and Sophie sits with the boy at night to make sure they eat their grain. So, we feed them all separately so that everybody gets what they want. But she's growing really strong, really, really fast right now. And her mom is like a a thinner kind of goat. She's not as big. Goats, even babies with a bigger barrel. Can't tell where I haven't shaved, bro. Like with that bigger barrel do better in shows. So, I don't know if she's going to how well she's going to do. But look at see if you guys can see the difference. So, this is shaved. This is not shaved. Yeah, you're doing Sophie's really good at this. Never shaved a dog in her life, but she can shave a goat. >> I shaved my horses. >> Oh, yeah. She shaved her horses. Anyway, we're going to just keep trying to We got to get all along there. >> Anyway, she is less conditioned than the other little girl. I don't think I mentioned that the reason that we have it so that we the reason that we don't want her to them to be shaved down too much is because it's going to be cold soon. But look at this. So, we shaved him thinking that he was going to go to a show and his hair is pretty much at the same level now as hers is that we're shaving today. It's like grown back a ton. It's super cute though. I'm so glad we fixed his eye. The vet said that he could have to have surgery. If it didn't go, if it didn't heal, he would have to have surgery. It looks so good. He looks so good. I love him. His dad was 22 in and his mom was 20 in. And 20 in is what I like. Lola's 20 in. So, he's like a little bit taller. Boys can be taller, but he's a little taller. He's still within the breed standard, but he's taller than what we want our goats to be, but he's pulled. It's really hard to get a good pulled goat. But hopefully that helps explain who we're breeding to who. We're breeding Nico to all the shorter goats and we're breeding Oreo McFlurry to the majority of the goats because he has the best genetics and only if he can do it cuz he's just a little guy. And then we're breeding a Ziggy just to one goat because we didn't see babies from Ziggy last year from her. And then next year we'll breed more of Ziggy. I love Ziggy. I love everything about him. It's all a process. We're going to see what the two boys do to our herd this year and then next year we're going to change it up. Fix what we need to fix. She's walking because she [Music] because she wants to go this way. She doesn't want to go this way. Come on. Come on. Good girl. Good girl. Good girl. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to walk down there and I'm going to stack her. Okay. One more time. Come on. Come on. She's stacking. She's not stacking. [Music] Come on. Come on. Come on. >> I know. It doesn't feel nice when you act crazy. Come on. >> Oh, >> can I try? >> Yeah. >> She doesn't give her the choice to not walk. She's not going to walk. >> I know. You give her the choice to not walk. But how do I do it without choking her? I don't like that. Well, if she moves forward, then the pressure gets released. >> I feel like she doesn't care about that. All right, try and stack that baby. [Music] >> She likes being stacked. >> Mine doesn't. [Music] I like this. She puts her head up though. Sometimes I feel like if you lift them up and then Yeah, she looks good. And then just turn her head. There we go. Look at that. So, one thing she does good is stack. [Music] Mine puts her head up and goes up. All right. Do you want to try your baby now or do you want to look at She looks so good. [Music] That's basically exactly how they look in the show ring. [Music] They fight. It's just awkward because the chain is awful. I Do you think I should order like a >> Don't order more stuff. This is why everyone's >> Yeah, that's a good point. There we go. She's a cutie. This is little Hazel's turn. I like this. I like shaving them because this is our whole setup here. This is like what you're supposed to use at the show. It's kind of more like a show thing, but what people actually use at the show are those kind of colors or they use totally like they use whatever they use these. I've seen people showing these. All right, we're going to get an idea. Uh, who looks nicer? I think Hazel looks nicer. >> She's more square here. Do you want me to hold her? So, we're shaving her down a little bit more. All right. So, he's So, she looks way better. I'm going to have to redo Posh. She looks way cuter. We used a smaller blade, but still a blade guard. And that she should Yeah. Way better. And we didn't do their face or their legs. So, >> their face and their legs are the same. >> Well, like look at up here. She's got this little stuff. And yeah, her face isn't bad. But right here, we are taking a break though because it is We're hot. We're really hot. Some baby goats like to show from the ceiling. They're like, "Look at my belly. [Music] Yeah, we're going to have to work with her a lot. like a few times a day. [Music] >> It looks like I'm choking her, but I'm not. >> No, you're No, we know you're not choking her. She'd be like throwing way bigger of a fit there. Good girl. Good girl. Good girl. [Music] >> I got to hold her up. >> She's 3 weeks younger than Posh, I think. >> Well, and Posh has had more experience, but even Posh isn't good. I'm actually so so surprised that I'm into this so much. I don't. So, >> you were standing like a goat. >> She's like, "No, I was jumping like a goat. Goats jump, you know. Thank you. >> Good girl. At the show, people have to fix their goats a h 100 times. Like, it's not a big deal. That's what they look like. We're leaving them in here to eat some hay. She really likes to eat hay. [Music] Posh literally looks like a person. Like, she has such a person personality. She's like, "Did you get shaved? I got shaved." I don't know if they want to go out. I think they want to go out. I'm going to give them some fresh hay because goats like fresh hay. So, we're going to go up to the house, take a break, and we're going to finish up a little bit later today cuz we got to get it finished. And then we're going to start walking them like two times a day. I'll put it like that. You guys can eat it. Okay. Fresh hay. Fresh. Just eat the dang hay. Like I want you guys to be nice and big and chubby and and I want it to be cool out. Not cold, >> but like a little bit cooler. >> Good job, man. >> We want to shave him, too. So, if he wants to shave him >> cuz they have really long eyel >> because we need to get pictures. >> Nico looks now. >> I know. Nico is so cute. >> I'm touching you. You made him pee on your face cuz you couldn't pee. >> I want to shave him. Like, we should get pictures this year of our boys. But I'm not going to shave him. We're not going to shave him because it's going to be cold. Actually, it's the perfect time for shaving because the weatherman says that we're not getting cold weather till November. >> Just the way you are, just the way you came. Don't you know that you're beautiful?