From Peepette 10 year old: “We worked with the show boer goats today. Goats and I may be cold due to the winter snowing weather! (Basically I am freezing my butt off!). The goats may be warmer than me because of their hair. One goat’s name is Linebacker and the other is hearts. I shoveled snow in my jammies for the goats. I shoveled a figure eight in the snow so they could run around!
And I think the Wild Woman of the West (aka MOM) should call me the Jr Peepette. ”
Wild Woman of the West: I love that my JR PEEPETTE wants to be a part of this blog with me. I LOVE that he wrote the above paragraphs about the 4-H goats. It got me thinking about the responsibility of 4-H. We all take great care with this meat goat project. Two years ago after several months of the meat goat project the above JR Peepette had a very hard time letting go of the market goat. After a year off (last year he showed pigs with the now called Senior Peepette-12 year old) he decided he missed showing goats.
This year, so we could keep one, Junior Peepette chose a wether and doe. So the wether will serve the meat purpose and the doe will keep us all happy when the other is gone…
I am still practicing the conversation with our favorite vet when I ask him to artificially inseminate the doe goat a year from this September. This way we can get a GREAT sire to receive a GREAT show goat! The vet may faint…but I was thinking…sheep, goat…not too different…I hope!!!
The positive part (remember the hubs is extremely OPTIMISTIC) is that the Jr Peepette can raise his own show boer goats. I am so excited how this teaches Jr Peepeette the gift of life and that he can raise his own show animals and slowly grow his herd.
Mom is so proud of her peepettes!
