Weigh Day for the future Ben Lomond packers.

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The vet I go to for my goats shares the clinic with another who specializes in small animals. They actually both do a booming business with small animals...that is where the money is I guess.

Anyway, I took my two kids to assess one's scurs & to talk about getting them both wethered. While there I thought I would try to weigh them...nice concept. One immediately urinated at the door on the carpet as we walked in & the other left a box of raisins at the scale before I weighed them. There was a huge audience of pet owners watching with their Schitzus & Calico kitties with disgusted looks...I took them back out side and waited there until the Vet came out. We decided to weigh them another time or differently.

I'm tempted to take all my goats down to our local vet to be weighed this fall on the big scale, just for the sake of curiosity. Weight tapes are great to gauge growth, but I'm not confident in the accuracy. It seems to make goats out to be heavier than they are (it said Finn was 35 lbs., which was why I got out the bathroom scale). It also says Pac-Man is 165 lbs. at 15 months and there's no way he's that big already. He's a chunk for sure, but he's not a monster. (Not yet anyway.) My weight tape measures Cuzco at waaaay past the 195 lb. mark when I know he's weighed around 200 lbs. for the last nine years. I'd like to get accurate weights on all my goats then measure them with the tape and write the results on the tape in red pen for future reference, or maybe make my own weight tape chart.