[Jacob-list] FW: Advice Please - Jacobs and Goats

[Sue Roenke]

Not sure about pygmies, but our goats always rule over the Jacob sheep.  We have had Nubians and Alpines, and one grafted (to a Jacob ewe whom lost her lamb) Boer kid.
Sue (and Marie)


From: agf777 at earthlink.net
To: im-rapunzil at hotmail.com; jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:02:29 -0400
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Advice Please - Jacobs and Goats










For what it is worth, we have a small flock of 
Jacobs--about a dozen.  We won't sell a single animal unless we know for a 
fact it is to be butchered (we take it ourselves).  We recently acquired 
alpacas for the fiber, and thinking about the companionship of like-kind with 
one another, got two of them.  I agree with Chris; you might think of a 
second goat right along.  A caveat:  goats have been known to 
teach sheep that they can get out of a fenced pasture when they were perfectly 
content before the goats came into the paddock.  Enjoy your new 
animals!  Steve, Amazing Grace Farm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  im 
  rapunzil 
  To: Jacob List 
  Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:40 
  AM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] Advice Please - 
  Jacobs and Goats
  
I have 2 Jacobs - ram & ewe, about 4 months old pastured 
  together at the moment.  Earlier this week I brought home a 2 month old 
  Pygmy doe kid.  When I first saw her she was about a week old, so 
  when I went back to pick her up this week was very surprised at how tiny she 
  still is.  I'd say she is half the size of my young Jacobs, maybe even 
  less than half!
 
As of now she is safe in a nicely bedded stall, 
  but I think she's lonely since being taken directly from her flock.  
  I'd really like to pasture her out with the Jacobs as soon as 
  possible.  However, my lamb ram already has a lovely 4 horn 
  set........ I'm just afraid of a chance they won't accept the doe.  Can 
  anyone advise me of precautions I should take?  Thank you for the 
  advice!
 
Cindy

You live by 
  writing your poems on a farm
and call that 
  farming.


 











  
  


  
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