Thornwood Farm

Epic Possibly A Moose

A young friend of mine in New Zealand named this goat for me soon after the goat was born in 2009. My goats are slow growing since they haven't been bred for meat or milk production, and Epic is growing, but slowly. I don't expect him to get very big as his mother is the smallest of the does of the original herd that I got in 2007.

Matilda

She is my first bottle baby. She was the third of triplets, the smallest, and her mom rejected her. So, my friend Michael and I bottle fed her. As a result she's quite people oriented. She will be having her first kid(s) this spring (2011). Her horns are not growing quite like I'd like them to: they're growing too straight back instead of curving out to the sides like the other goats'. A friend and I have been talking about things I might do to correct that.

ps: Matilda either didn't conceive or her embryo reabsorbed, which sometimes happens. And, the summer of 2011 her horns began to turn out so that she had more room to turn her head. I had to downsize my herd, and she became one of the culls.

Geronimo

My oldest buck is probably between 12 and 15 years old. Since it was a rescue herd I don't have any information on the ages and such. The goat that I think was probably his sibling, Harold, died this winter (2010-2011) and Geronimo was getting really skinny. I tried to save Harold with an intensive feeding program, but to no avail. Geronimo, however, is looking pretty good, and I have hope that he will make it into the summer.

ps: Geronimo filled out and looked really good this summer (2011). I decided not to put him through another winter, though, and had him put down. He was a fine old goat and I miss him.