It's pretty warm* so I brought the baby goats out earlier than yesterday.
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@sundogplanets honest question here: how many goats do you have or plan on having? Do you raise them? Sell them? (I'm genuinely curious). I think of this like a video game, if you let them alone their population would gradually increase on its own, right?
@gryzor Yeah, the population would increase, and get increasingly inbred. I sell a large fraction of the goats each year. My primary goal for the herd is home dairy, with secondary goals of excellent grassland management/fertilizer, and snuggling baby goats. I think my perfect herd size would be 12-15 adult goats.
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2 giant healthy babies! She had one real big one, who I moved to the barn (along with mama) and I assumed she was done. I toweled off the baby, cleaned up, checked on the other babies, enjoyed the sun, peeked back in to see how Mr. Big was doing, and the mama (named Glory) laid down and pushed out a second baby! Also quite big and healthy. Good job, mama!!
#BabyGoatCountdown is up to 7 babies for the season so far.
@sundogplanets
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@sundogplanets honest question here: how many goats do you have or plan on having? Do you raise them? Sell them? (I'm genuinely curious). I think of this like a video game, if you let them alone their population would gradually increase on its own, right?
Well, the numbers would increase until the coyotes discovered them...
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It occurred to me that I could calculate a sort of #BabyGoatCountdown "expectation value" for how many goat babies this year. Last year I had an average of 1.5 babies per goat, so using my pregnancy probabilities above (very scientific haha) I'd expect 9 more babies this year (for a total of 14 babies). Let's see how that prediction turns out.
The 5 babies so far are happily napping in the sun, not doing any math at all.
@sundogplanets is it a cowculation?
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@sundogplanets is it a cowculation?
@autolycos goatculation just does not have the same ring to it.
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@autolycos goatculation just does not have the same ring to it.
@sundogplanets this is why English has drawbacks
Kidculation also seems too diminutive
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2 giant healthy babies! She had one real big one, who I moved to the barn (along with mama) and I assumed she was done. I toweled off the baby, cleaned up, checked on the other babies, enjoyed the sun, peeked back in to see how Mr. Big was doing, and the mama (named Glory) laid down and pushed out a second baby! Also quite big and healthy. Good job, mama!!
#BabyGoatCountdown is up to 7 babies for the season so far.
@sundogplanets
Twins! Very exciting! -
2 giant healthy babies! She had one real big one, who I moved to the barn (along with mama) and I assumed she was done. I toweled off the baby, cleaned up, checked on the other babies, enjoyed the sun, peeked back in to see how Mr. Big was doing, and the mama (named Glory) laid down and pushed out a second baby! Also quite big and healthy. Good job, mama!!
#BabyGoatCountdown is up to 7 babies for the season so far.
@sundogplanets A nice way for me to start the day with when these pics pop up in my timeline! Thank you!
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My partner just called from the barn. MOAR BABIES!! #BabyGoatCountdown
@sundogplanets come for the Kessler Syndrome, stay for the #BabyGoatCountdown
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@ChrisCorrigan it might be more fun to guess how many kids @sundogplanets will have by May!
12? (Ever the optimist)
@deborahh @sundogplanets you mean how many kids her goats will have right?
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@deborahh @sundogplanets you mean how many kids her goats will have right?
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