Hank's Got Charisma

Nubian x Boer cross goat buck, Hank--the hunk.

This week it seemed that all of the does in the home pasture cycled, very closely together. We placed Brad Pitt in with them for a couple of nights, but when more tails started wagging a few days later--and the gals were mooning up against the fence for Midnight Hank, why, we put Sting in the home pasture to work.

We don't know what it is about Midnight Hank, but some of these does have their caps set for him and no one else. Unfortunately for them, they don't get to choose. Especially since we've been told that a meat goat buck like Hank can produce kids whose heads are too big for the big dairy does to birth comfortably--the dwarf does wouldn't stand a chance. We are not ready to lose goats during kidding just because we allowed the does to choose the big-boned buck.

Brad makes beautiful peach-and-white kids. He should have bred Dwarfs Thumbelina and Jennifer when he was in the home pasture. Sting has all of BullyBob's good features. Most of the Fainter does and Cocoa will be having his kids come summertime.

We have not had summer kids before. Those does who are still here for kidding will be pastured in the cool shade of the wooded areas; however, most will have been placed elsewhere before they kid again.