06/07/2024
While not nearly as bad as some parts of the country, it’s been quite hot here in MD the past few weeks. This is how we’re surviving 🤣
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Still Meadow Kinders - Breeding high quality Kinders since 2002.
01/05/2024
Two girls still looking for a new herd! Both girls are correct, wide and level. Really great udder and production potential.
Sicily - first gen doe. Comes from several generations of homebred Nubians. Pygmy sire comes from a family of lovely udders.
Gemini - 2nd gen doe. Dam comes from concentrated Still Meadow genetics. First gen sire comes from the same lines as Sicily.
17/04/2024
Babies! Minus Perry and Spring who mostly refused to cooperate 🤣
07/04/2024
Milk Test #2! I’m really happy with all the girls, although Ditto is really doing wonderfully for a first freshener 🥰
Acantha: Nubian 2yo FF 8.8 # (pictured)
Ditto: 2yo FF 6.6 #
Bounce: 2yo FF 4.5 #
31/03/2024
It’s a muddy mess out today. Kids are growing well, and girls are milking like it’s their dream job 🥰
08/03/2024
Chunky sassy babies gave me a nice photo shoot this morning 🥰
07/03/2024
Edit: Components are back! Acantha coming in at 5% fat which is fabulous for a Nubian, 5.1% for Ditto and a whopping 6.2% fat for Bounce!
First Milk Test of the year yesterday! The girls did great. Im so happy with the quality of their udders and production. Just waiting now to see what their components look like. 😍
Acantha - 7.0 #, 2yo FF Nubian (twin 1st gens)
Ditto - 6.2 #, 2yo FF Kinder (triplets)
Bounce - 4.1 #, 2yo FF Kinder (1 live twin)
27/02/2024
Babies!! Udders are coming in beautifully and I am getting ready for our first milk test of the year. All 5 girls are available. I’m keeping Perry for myself this year.
16/02/2024
Udder sneak peaks! These girls are just getting going on their first lactations, but they are looking so promising. First photo is Acantha, Nubian dam of the twin first gen girls. She is milking 7 # daily and climbing. The second is Ditto, dam to the triplets. She is milking 4.5 # daily and climbing! All 4 girls from these two ladies are available.
13/02/2024
That’s all Folks!
Bounce finished us off with twin doelings (one DOA 😞) sired by Galahad. Calling this one Spring (like the synonym for Bounce, not the season 😉)
Total 3 does, 7 kids, 6 doelings/1 buckling.
09/02/2024
Installment #2! Almost finished…
Ditto had 2 does (flashy brown and white splashed, and dark brown agouti) and 1 buck (tan with moonspots) sired by Pretzel.
EDIT: We have a name change! I rarely change names, but Remix wasn’t working for me. He has a soft and cuddly energy and needed a cutesier name. My husband suggested Parrot (the verb, not the bird). It’s perfect. Shared an initial with his dad Pretzel, and a fun play on words for Ditto.
Doe 1: Gemini (brown and white)
Buck: Parrot (formerly Remix)
Doe 2: Jinx (dark brown)
07/02/2024
Kicked off the beginning of a very short kidding season last night! Twin 1st gen doelings ❤️
Sicily (tan)
Salem (black)
29/11/2023
Today was Kate’s last day.
Nearly 12 years ago on a cold grey February day, Dahlia kidded shortly before I got home from work. I found 3 big kids cold and wet in the dirt. I took them inside and came back to care for Dahlia, only to hear tiny baby screams with no baby to be seen. After several minutes of searching, the screams never stopping for a moment, I found her under the edge of the barn. Wedged up just barely in reach. I pulled out a tiny 1 1/2 pound ice cold ball of attitude. Demanding to be heard. I rushed her inside, cupping her neatly in the palms of my hands, and held her in front of a space heater until she warmed up. She then proceeded to out eat her siblings who were triple her size. She was the sassiest girl, and the biggest personality in the barn, despite her small size. It took her several years to catch up to her siblings, but she ended up a big chonky girl regardless. Likely due to her inclination to out eat a horse 🤷🏻♀️
She never cycled or freshened. Her ovaries showed huge cysts or abnormalities as a young doe. She spent her entire life a pet.
The last year and a half she’s slowly declined with arthritis in her front legs. She went on a sharp diet for the first time in her life in order to accommodate her tender toes. And eventually went on daily meds. Her meds increased over time, and we eventually maxed her out, but her pain continued to grow. Cold weather made it worse. She spent the last month on a generous dose of banamine added to her regimen. That kept her happy as a clam, though she could still barely walk. She never lost her perky personality, or her desire to shuffle to the milk room and gobble up grain as fast as she could inhale it, before she got caught. It’s hard to make end of life decisions when they are so bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Today was as cold as the day she was born, although we lucked out on some sunshine. We spent the morning soaking up sun and looking for “potato chips” in the grass. Then someone left a door open, silly me, and she quite literally ate grain until she was done. It was a lot 😅
I’ve been saving Echo’s ashes for a couple years now, and the sisters are finally reunited. She lays in the far corner of the main pasture, where she can keep an eye on the action.
2/27/12 - 11/29/23 ❤️🩹
24/07/2023
Feed and the Kinder Goat.
I weighed several of my kids tonight, 4 freezer bound wethers and my keeper doeling. I have a few more kids growing out, but I didn’t feel like wrangling all of them. All my kids are being dam raised except my keeper doeling. I have 2 sets of first gen kids, everyone else is 3rd and 4th. I have 5 does and 10 kids getting 30lbs of grain to share. Which averages 2lbs per goat per day, but moms take way more than the kids. I have free choice hay out for them at all times. 3 feeders full of alfalfa and 1 with orchard grass. Sweetlix meat maker minerals. And pasture. Although, they only have about an acre and I have to mow it to keep it under control so I’m not sure they’re eating much… My does get chaffhaye, but not the kids since my baled hay is still cheaper, for now. My keeper kids (the doeling plus two bucklings not pictured) have been dosed with toltrazuril at monthly intervals - the other kids havent had parasite management this year, with the exception of one kid mentioned next…This is not to encourage a lack of necessary CHEMICAL parasite treatment, just to highlight some nice natural resistance.
Out of 15 Kinder kids I only had one small one. One of the 4th gen doelings. She was included with the coccidia protocol with my keeper kids, and she was a dam raised twin. She barely made it to 30 # at 3 months old. I didn’t have the heart to raise her to be butchered and she was a total sweetheart, so I sent her to a w**deater/pet home. Some Kinders are just small and that’s normal, but they should not be that common if you are appropriately managing your herd. There is a wide range to the size allowed in the breed standard, but they must still be a *mid* sized *dual* purpose animal. If they are the size of Pygmies and Nigerians, they are not mid sized. Well fed Kinders are truly exemplary of a dual purpose breed, and I would encourage a hard look at your management if you’re struggling with this.
The other kids I didn’t weigh this evening are all in similar size brackets to these guys, ranging from (my) normal to large in size.
White wethers - 1st gen, dam raised, 4.5mo (3/8/23) 64 # and 66 #
Black wethers - 1st gen, dam raised, 4.5mo (3/9/23), 65 # and 68 #
Aoide - 3rd gen doe, bottle raised, 3.5mo(4/8/23), 50 # (!)
09/06/2023
Aoide at 9 weeks. I need to get a weight, but she has the general feel of a large brick. The only bottle baby in a sea of dam raised monsters has given her a great sense of entitlement. She’s my chore buddy. Doing zoomies from the hay side of the barn back to the stall side is her favorite form of exercise. She also has very intense ears 😄🥰
06/05/2023
I’ve been bad at pictures this year. Here are my 3 favorites. Retaining all 3 for now. One doeling (I wasn’t supposed to keep any 🤪) and 2 bucklings, one each from my 2 sets of first gens. I won’t keep them both long term. Just letting them grow up a bit.
09/04/2023
After spending a week out of state attending a family matter, and anxiously hoping Aiya would wait to kid until I got back, she graciously waited a few hours after my return before ending kidding season with a giant single doeling by Drax.
Her name is Aoide (eye-uh-dee), albeit with a slightly different pronunciation from the original Greek.
Wrapping us up at 19 kids, 11 bucks/8 does.
30/03/2023
My buck year continues with twin boys from Reflection last night. I normally name based on mom’s theme if she has one, but these boys got dad’s (Drax) instead. Rocket (raccoon) and Groot 🥰
29/03/2023
Reflection is trying to be in labor, but the other babies are harassing the s**t out of her. I tried blocking off a baby-free corner of the barn, but now she thinks she’s in jail. Ideally she has free range of the barn, and the babies are the ones in jail. She’s done nothing wrong 🤨😂
Reflection is a 3yo FF (she miscarried what should have been her first freshening last year) and my last baby from Echo ❤️
16/03/2023
Babies!
10/03/2023
Absolutely insane couple days here. I’m *really* looking forward to sleep! More pictures to come! Starting Sunday afternoon, and culminating this evening -
5 does, 16 kids, 9 bucks, 7 does. One doe kid died.
Feyn x Tenet: Buck/doe twins
Rebel (b)
Riot (d)
Anja x Doc (Pygmy x Kinder kids):3 does/2 bucks
Winnie (d)
Eeyore (b)
Kanga (d)
Tigger (b)
The other doe kid was born alive and was possibly sat on/smushed or otherwise died? Bummer. These kids are all headed to pet homes.
Lyric x Tenet: triplet does
Limerick
Poet
Tempo
Siren x Doc (first gen kids): triplet bucks
Pretzel
Tofu
Popcorn
Selket x Doc (first gen kids): triplet bucks
Lancelot
Mordred
Galahad
Pictured are Selket and her fresh kids. All black! I’m so excited. I get so few black goats. 😍
28/02/2023
Bounce (L) and Ditto (R) - Ricochet x Tenet yearlings. I just love these girls ❤️😍
18/11/2022
Never a surprise, always a relief 😂 Everyone was tested this year with the exception of Kate. As she ages she gets arthritis flare ups, and blood draw day happened to be one of her bad days, so I let her be.
10/11/2022
Blood draws done for the whole herd for the year, as well as some ultrasounds. We have two confirmed sets of first gens coming in March! Yay! I backed myself into a pretty tight genetic corner when I reduced my herd in advance of moving to Maryland, so I’m looking forward to a new buck prospect 🤞🏼 I’ll also have a couple sets of Kinder or Kinder/Pygmy kids that will be dam raised and freezer bound, just wanted to freshen them to see udders.
Ditto and Bounce are still giant and gorgeous. They are not bred, and I’m about to cut them off alfalfa overwinter 🤣
13/10/2022
Well, it’s happening. After what, 4 years? It’s time for first gens again.
19/09/2022
After living here a full year, and the bucks being in a general state of limbo (shed for shelter, janky fencing, etc), they have officially moved into the main barn and have a real fence! I’m excited to not have any more escapees, and concrete floors (with stall matts) for mucking out 😍
05/08/2022
Another monthly weigh-in for the baby girls! The kinder girls are finally slowing to a steadier growth pace, but the nubian kid is still growing like a w**d 🤪 It’s really interesting to look at their height differences too. Ditto fleshed out a bit more and gained more length this month, but Bounce just grew straight upward. The nubian is bigger everywhere 😆
Ditto - 76 # (11 # gain) 22” (1/2” gain) 5mo
Bounce 76 # (10 # gain) 22 1/4” (1 1/4” gain) 5mo
Acantha 95 # (20 # gain) 25 1/5” (1 1/2” gain) 4.5mo
(Pictured is Acantha and Ditto)
02/07/2022
EDIT: Weights/Heights added!
Ricochet x Tenet girls, 4mo (born 3/5/22)
Bounce 21” 66.5 #
Ditto 21.5” 65 #
For comparison, I have a 3.5mo old Nubian doeling (born 3/16/22) that is 24” and 75.5 #.
Bounce is pretty well put together, and is super chill. Ditto is going through a funky stage, but you can still see her quality. She’s always into s**t 🤣
21/03/2022
Took some registration pics today. Took a few tries, but we made it happen 🤣
08/03/2022
Take notes, you guys. According to Bubbles all you need is sunshine and slipper to have the perfect nap.
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