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When it rains, it POURS! It has been WAY the heck too exciting around here these past couple of weeks, and here is the latest bit of drama:
Everybody look out! Pac-Man is here!
We found this little guy on Craigslist yesterday. We were looking for Alpine does (we still miss Nibbles and want more babies next summer
) but we found this fella instead, and he's gonna help us get more babies!
He's a nine-month-old 3/4 Nubian, 1/4 Alpine buckling, and he reminded me way too much of Cuzco to pass up. He's as sweet as he can be, and he's the perfect size to breed Nubbin and Petunia. He's about two months older than them but is about the same size. I'm attributing a lot of that to the fact that he was bottle raised, as opposed to our spoiled little brats who were dam raised and allowed to nurse for five months. Pac-Man's got nice enough conformation that I feel good breeding him to my little gals, and when he's done with that job we're going to wether him so he can grow up to be our next hiking buddy and cart puller. Hopefully he agrees with our plan for his life.
Pac-Man is very sweet-natured, but a little shy right now. Apparently he was a huge lap baby until puberty hit, and then suddenly he got thrown into the rough-and-tumble world of the buck pen where he was the low man on the totem pole. It made him wary of attention, probably because he got pummeled every time he tried to take center stage. But he's not skittish or unfriendly--it's like he really wants to come up to us, but he's looking over his shoulder the whole time, and he doesn't want to be caught or restrained. He loves treats, however, so it shouldn't take long to remind him that people are wonderful creatures.
Everybody look out! Pac-Man is here!
We found this little guy on Craigslist yesterday. We were looking for Alpine does (we still miss Nibbles and want more babies next summer
) but we found this fella instead, and he's gonna help us get more babies!He's a nine-month-old 3/4 Nubian, 1/4 Alpine buckling, and he reminded me way too much of Cuzco to pass up. He's as sweet as he can be, and he's the perfect size to breed Nubbin and Petunia. He's about two months older than them but is about the same size. I'm attributing a lot of that to the fact that he was bottle raised, as opposed to our spoiled little brats who were dam raised and allowed to nurse for five months. Pac-Man's got nice enough conformation that I feel good breeding him to my little gals, and when he's done with that job we're going to wether him so he can grow up to be our next hiking buddy and cart puller. Hopefully he agrees with our plan for his life.
Pac-Man is very sweet-natured, but a little shy right now. Apparently he was a huge lap baby until puberty hit, and then suddenly he got thrown into the rough-and-tumble world of the buck pen where he was the low man on the totem pole. It made him wary of attention, probably because he got pummeled every time he tried to take center stage. But he's not skittish or unfriendly--it's like he really wants to come up to us, but he's looking over his shoulder the whole time, and he doesn't want to be caught or restrained. He loves treats, however, so it shouldn't take long to remind him that people are wonderful creatures.